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• ASHFORD COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 What Is Technical
  Communication (New)

• ASHFORD COM 340 Entire Course

• 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.

• 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.

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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical
Communication
COM 340 Week 1 Evaluation of a Health-Related
Website
COM 340 Week 1 Evaluation of a Health-Related
Website Communications - General
Communications 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 23)
  COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical
Communication Communications - General
Communications 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.  
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
Thinking in Research
COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments
  COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments Communi
cations - General Communications 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?

• COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
  Thinking in Research
• Communications - General Communications
• 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).

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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals
COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms
COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals Communications -
General Communications 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 1 Defining Terms Communications
- General Communications 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.
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COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal Outline
COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an
Online Library Database
  COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal
Outline Communications - General
Communications 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.
 COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an
Online Library Database Communications - General
Communications 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.
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page Design
COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images
 COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page
Design Communications - General
Communications 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 DQ 1 Using Visual
Images Communications - General
Communications Using Visual Images. Search the
Internet and find examples of each of the
following a. A graph b. A chart c. A graphic
illustration
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COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary
COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism Description
  COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary Communication
s - General Communications 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,  
 COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism
Description Communications - General
Communications 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.
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COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper
 
  COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper Communications -
General Communications 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. You will be
required to do some research to complete this
paper.
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