COM 340 outlet Perfect Education/com340outlet.com

COM 340 outlet Perfect Education/com340outlet.com FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com

COM 340 Entire Course (New) • What Is Technical Communication? What is the difference between technical communication and technical writing? After completing your reading assignments for this week, how would you define each of these terms? Create your own definition for technical communication and a separate definition for technical writing. • The Value of Technical Communication. Why do we need technical communication? What purpose does it serve? Identify at least five types of documents or other written materials that could be considered technical writing that you engage in or see in your home and/or workplace.

COM 340 Entire Course • COM 340 Week 1 Individual Assignment Mass Media Worksheet • COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 • COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 • COM 340 Week 1 DQ 3 • COM 340 Week 2 Assignment Print Media Comparison • COM 340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion • COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1

COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 What Is Technical Communication (New) • What Is Technical Communication? What is the difference between technical communication and technical writing? After completing your reading assignments for this week, how would you define each of these terms? Create your own definition for technical communication and a separate definition for technical writing

COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 • Have media had an impact in your life? In what way or ways? In answering this question, consider all of the media you use, including print media, broadcast media, digital media, and entertainment media.

COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical Communication (New) • The Value of Technical Communication. Why do we need technical communication? What purpose does it serve? Identify at least five types of documents or other written materials that could be considered technical writing that you engage in or see in your home and/or workplace.

COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 • Media conglomerates are getting bigger and bigger, with more and more media companies concentrating into fewer hands. Do you think this is a positive or negative trend? Why?

COM 340 Week 1 DQ 3 • In what ways does mass communication differ from interpersonal communication? How is this distinction likely to change in the future and why?

COM 340 Week 1 Evaluation of a Health-Related Website (New) • Evaluation of a Health-Related Website. In July 1999, The American Telemedicine Association (A.T.A.) issued the following advice to consumers who use the Internet for health-related information and services. A.T.A.’s criteria for a quality site include the following (“Advisories” 2–3): • a. The site is sponsored by a reputable healthcare organization (e.g., American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, nationally recognized medical college, or the like). Information from a commercial

COM 340 Week 1 Individual Assignment Mass Media Worksheet • I Complete the University Material “Mass Media Worksheet” located in Week One of the com340outlet Course Materials. Instructions and details of the assignment are included.

COM 340 Week 2 Assignment Print Media Comparison • Read and cite two news articles (NOT editorial or op-ed columns) found in the University Library on the same current event issue. One article should come from an American newspaper and the other from a magazine or journal. The key factor is that they come from the University Library with proper in-text APA citations provided for anyone in the class to find the articles. You may also use/cite information from assigned readings in our textbook as support.

COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical Thinking in Research (New) • Expert Opinion and Critical Thinking in Research. Review the information in Chapter Six of Technical Communication about expert opinion. Select a topic from science or technology on which experts might disagree (e.g., possible health hazards of cell phones, global warming/global climate change, or the value of vitamin supplements). Use the Internet to research this topic and find one point on which experts seem to agree, one point on which experts disagree,

COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 • What events toward the end of the 19th century enabled general interest magazines to become mass circulation magazines? Next, explain why the impact of images is such major controversy in the magazine industry today.

COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments (New) • Research Assignments. Discuss what aspects of conducting research are the easiest and the most difficult for you and why you find these areas easy and difficult. Include at least one ethical issue from your reading of Chapter Five of Technical Communication (assigned in Week One) as one of aspects. Which types of sources do you find most difficult to evaluate and why? What specific idea did you learn from your reading and/or assignments this week that will help you in your future research?

COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 • What are the major changes in form that books have taken through time? Currently, E-books are proving to be the wave of the future. What is your opinion of them and personal preference?

COM 340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion • COM 340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms (New) • Defining Terms. Explain the importance and purpose of technical definitions. Select a term you know the meaning of but others may not. Using the guidelines presented in Chapter Eighteen of the text, Technical Communication, create a sentence definition and then expand the definition using one or more of the expansion techniques presented in the chapter. Post the term, the sentence definition, and the expanded definition.

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 • How reliable is anecdotal evidence that movie violence causes violence in real life?

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals (New) • Proposals. What is the primary purpose of a proposal, and why must a proposal be persuasive? Provide an example of a written (or oral) proposal you have made. If it was successful, discuss what elements, discussed in our text, you used to make it successful. If it was unsuccessful and did not achieve its purpose, discuss what you could have done differently to make it successful.

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 • Many early television programs came over directly from radio. As these programs became visual, how would the family viewing experience differ? What kind of effects might this have had on family life?

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 3 • Commercial radio became the norm in the United States, whereas many other countries adopted a government-owned model used for education, entertainment and culture. How would America be different today if the U.S. government owned and operated radio?

COM 340 Week 3 DQ 4 • Should the Internet be regulated? If you were in charge, how would you regulate it?

COM 340 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sex and Violence Paper • Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper analyzing the influence on young people under the age of 18 of sex and violence portrayed in movies, television, and video games. What is your opinion? What do research experts say about the effects on young people? • Find and analyze opposing conclusions

COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an Online Library Database (New) • Instruction: Effective Use of an Online Library Database. Using the information you have learned from Chapter Twenty of the text Technical Communication, write an instruction for feeding an infant. If you have some personal experience in this area, you may use this experience as a source of information. However, you should also conduct research to obtain expert opinions and to be certain your information is accurate. Your assignment must cite at least two scholarly sources. Before

COM 340 Week 3 LT Assignment Team Paper Outline and References • COM 340 Week 3 LT Assignment Team Paper Outline and References

COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal Outline (New) • Planning Proposal Outline. Submit a formal outline for your research proposal that is due in Week Five. Your outline must include a descriptive title of the topic you will be researching. It must also include sufficient information to develop a two-page to three-page written proposal, must be prepared using appropriate alphanumeric notation, and must be developed to at least two levels of detail. Your paper should include title and references pages, and be formatted according

COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images (New) • Using Visual Images. Search the Internet and find examples of each of the following: • a. A graph • b. A chart • c. A graphic illustration • Study the three examples you found and compare each one to the guidelines for using that type of visual, the guidelines for incorporating color, and the guidelines for fitting visua

COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page Design (New) • Effective Page Design. Find an example of effective page design and an ineffective page design in a magazine or on the Web. In your post, describe each page design and why it is effective or ineffective. Be specific in your evaluation. With the ineffective page design, make specific recommendations for improvement. Be sure to cite all resources.

COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism Description (New) • Process/Mechanism Description. Select a simple process you routinely perform or a common household or office object as the topic for your process/mechanism description. Some examples of common processes are brushing your teeth, combing or brushing your hair, tying your shoes, eating breakfast, etc. Some common household or office objects for a mechanism description are flashlights, nail clippers, retractable ballpoint pens, scissors, staplers, or any other simple mechanisms. • Before writing your process or mechanism description, complete an audience and use profile (p. 35 of the text, Technical Communication.) • Write a one-page, single-spaced, objective descri

COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary (New) • Course Summary. Over the past five weeks, we have covered many subjects related to technical writing. If someone asked you to prepare a written summary of this five-week course, what would you write? Summaries are often written to make long documents quickly understandable. However, as our text explains, we often have to write summaries to report on meetings, conferences, projects, or programs. Using the information you learned in Chapter Nine of the text, write a 200 – 250 word response that incorporates the elements of a usable summary and summarizes the essential messages of this COM340 course.

COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper (New) • Focus of the Final Paper • This paper should be an objective evaluation of a situation or a problem you or someone you know has experienced here at the University or a suggestion for a change to a university process or a procedure that could improve a service the university provides to its students.

COM 340 outlet Perfect Education/com340outlet.com FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com

COM 340 outlet Perfect Education/com340outlet.com