Author Archive for traci

Analyzing Audience and Purpose

Today we’ll talk about how to analyze a writing task to determine the audience and purpose. We’ll do the class discussion first and the in-class writing last today because I want to be sure that you understand the kind of…

Ethical and Legal Concerns

Ethical and legal concerns can be complicated by the company and industry, the specifics of the situation, and even where and who they will effect. Today we will discuss the documents that explain one company’s ethical policies and then talk…

Intro to Technical Writing

Today, we begin the first writing assignment and establish the definition of technical writing that we will use for the term. Get started by going to “Tests & Quizzes” in Scholar and completing today’s in-class writing, “01/27 Characteristics of Tech…

Class Logistics and Tools

We’ll spend class today talking about the structure for each class session and going over the tools that we’ll use during the term. Specifically, we’ll set up sharing and talk about how to use Google Drive, I’ll share some tutorials…

Welcome to Technical Writing

Welcome to English 3764, Technical Writing. This site is the official home for our course. All assignments, weekly and daily activities, and related resources will be posted here. Be sure to bookmark it. We will use several other sites for…

1:25 Class Introductions

For today, you have one activity to complete: Add a comment to this post that introduces yourself to me and the class, and answers the following questions: Give us some basic facts about yourself—who are you, what’s your major/minor, what…

10:10 Class Introductions

For today, you have one activity to complete: Add a comment to this post that introduces yourself to me and the class, and answers the following questions: Give us some basic facts about yourself—who are you, what’s your major/minor, what…

9:05 Class Introductions

For today, you have one activity to complete: Add a comment to this post that introduces yourself to me and the class, and answers the following questions: Give us some basic facts about yourself—who are you, what’s your major/minor, what…