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  • COM 340 Entire Course
  • COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical
    Communication
  • 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
  • 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 Evaluation of a Health-Related
    Website
  • COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
  • 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)
  • a. The site is sponsored by a reputable
    healthcare organization (e.g., American Cancer
    Society, American Medical Association
  • 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, and one

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  • COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments
  • COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms
  • 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?
  • 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 DQ 2 Proposals
  • COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use
  • 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
  • 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

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  • COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal Outline
  • COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images
  • 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
  • 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

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  • COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page Design
  • COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism Description
  • 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 resou
  • 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 DQ 1 Course Summary
  • COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper
  • 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
  • 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?

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