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• COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 What Is Technical
  Communication
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• 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?

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• COM 340 Entire Course
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• 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 2 The Value of Technical
  Communication
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• 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
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• 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 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
  Thinking in Research
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• 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

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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 (assigned in Week One) as
  one of aspects.

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• COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms
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• 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

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• COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals
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• 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

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• COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an
  Online Library Database
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• Instruction Effective Use of an Online Library
  Database. Using the information you have learned
  from Chapter Twenty of the text Technical

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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

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• COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images
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• Using Visual Images. Search the Internet and find
  examples of each of the following
• a. A graph

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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.
  With the ineffective page design, make specific
  recommendations for

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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

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• COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary
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• 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

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• COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper
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• 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

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