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Essay Writing

Essay Writing. In ENG 349. Your Essay Assignment. Chose a topic from our readings in the Hayhoe book that interests you and that you want to learn more about. Assignment Requirements. 5 -6 page (excludes title page and bibliography page)

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Essay Writing

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  1. Essay Writing In ENG 349

  2. Your Essay Assignment • Chose a topic from our readings in the Hayhoe book that interests you and that you want to learn more about.

  3. Assignment Requirements • 5-6 page (excludes title page and bibliography page) • At least one source other than the Connecting Technology book. • --cannot use Tech Comm in 21st Cent. • Use citation and bibliography format from MLA.

  4. Part I--Usability: Making Technology Fit Its Users • 1. Making Connections: Teaming Up to Connect Users, Developers, and Usability Experts • 2. Usability Standards: Connecting Practice Around the World • 4. Manuals for the Elderly: Text Characteristics That Help or Hinder Older Users

  5. Part III-Health and Safety: Informing Societyof Risks and Dangers • 11. Challenges to Effective Information and Communication Systems in Humanitarian Relief Organizations • 12. Using Role Sets to Engage and Persuade Visitors of Web Sites that Promote Safe Sex • 13. Physicians and Patients: How Professionals Build Relationships through Rapport Management

  6. Part IV-Biotechnology: Reporting Its Potential and Its Problems • 14. Connecting Popular Culture and Science: The Case of Biotechnology • 15. Biotechnology and Global Miscommunication with the Public: Rhetorical Assumptions, Stylistic Acts, Ethical Implications • 16. The Need for Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer Cases

  7. Part V-Corporate Environment: ImprovingTechnology • 17. Technical Language: Learning from the Columbia and Challenger Reports • 19. Managing Collaboration: Adding Communication and Documentation Environment to a Product Development Cycle • 22. Using Their Digital Notes: Three Cases to Make Tacit Knowledge Visible in a Web-based Surrounding

  8. Difference between essay and reading response • An essay is a formal argument. • A reading response is informal reaction to a text.

  9. Essay • Presents an argument • Hasa thesis • Is supported by points. • Are supported by sources.

  10. Example • Topic: Use of Role Sets When Communicating to Audiences • Thesis: Role sets are effective ways of writing information for resistant users. • Support: • They provide models users can relate to. • They minimize anxiety. • They are applicable to different industries. • As shown in this example, role sets can be effective.

  11. Use of Sources • Refer to information from sources you have read to back up your points. • Our course book is only one source. • Find other sources in: • Bibliography at end of the article in our book • Milner Online Library • Look under key words • Find research or scholarly articles.

  12. Essay Organization • Think of these parts but do NOT use these titles in paper except for “Bibliography.” • Title Page • Introduction • Body • Point 1 • Support • Point 2 • Support • Etc. • Conclusion • Bibliography

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