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COM 340 Entire Course (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   COM 340 Week 1 Individual
Assignment Mass Media Worksheet COM 340 Week 1 DQ
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Week 2 Assignment Print Media Comparison
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 What Is Technical
Communication (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical
Communication (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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?
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   In what ways does mass
communication differ from interpersonal
communication? How is this distinction likely to
change in the future and why?
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COM 340 Week 1 Evaluation of a Health-Related
Website (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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)
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COM 340 Week 1 Individual Assignment Mass Media
Worksheet FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 2 Assignment Print Media
Comparison FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
Thinking in Research (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments
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  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
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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?
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COM 340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion FOR
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340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   How reliable is anecdotal
evidence that movie violence causes violence in
real life?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Should the Internet be
regulated? If you were in charge, how would you
regulate it?
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COM 340 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sex and
Violence Paper FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   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 by citing research
experts in at least four references from
peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
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COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an
Online Library Database (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 3 LT Assignment Team Paper Outline
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Assignment Team Paper Outline and References
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COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal Outline
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  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.
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images (New) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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,
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Researchers have shown
that subliminal persuasion doesnt work, yet some
critics insist that the constant barrage of
regular advertising keeps certain brand names in
the consumers mind, making it seem natural to
subconsciously reach for that brand on the store
shelf.
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page Design
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  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.
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   What is your perception
of PR professionals based on your readings,
current events, and personal experiences? What
are some of the public relations tactics that
critics consider to be of questionable ethics?
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Which is the most
essential news value the audience interest,
importance, or timeliness of the story? Why?
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   What are some of the
advantages and disadvantages of the various media
for advertising? How do advertisers influence the
editorial content of the media in which their ads
appear?
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COM 340 Week 4 Individual Assignment Advertising
Press Release FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   NOTE Please complete
this assignment as one paper with two
sub-sections (one for the advertisement and one
for the press release), rather than composing it
as two separate papers. 1. Locate a recent
electronic version of a print advertisement. Write
a 700- to 1,050-word analysis that addresses the
following questions
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COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism Description
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  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.
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COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   When and why did people
become concerned about the effects of media? When
did systematic research into media effects begin?
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COM 340 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Do industry professionals
have the ethical responsibility to produce
society-making media rather than segment-making
media? Why or why not?
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COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   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.
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COM 340 Week 5 LT Assignment Final Paper and
Presentation FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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