July 17th: Writing for the User,
Rhetoric of Technology, and
Midterm Preview

Of course...reorganize

• Rhetoric of Technology--to look beyond the functional use of a tool
• Résumé Issues
• Prose Revisions Discussion
• July 16th's Digital World Stuff
• Midterm Preview
• Interface Design and Ch. 6 Stuff (guess this will have to wait until next week)
• I, Robot Preview

Midterm Fun

Remember, your midterm is tomorrow. If you've read and paid attention in class, it will be easy. If you haven't read, spaced out, IMed, and didn't laugh at my jokes, this might be difficult. Below are some areas the midterm will cover:

• Using verbs for résumé duties

• Revising for passive voice, parallelism, overusing prepositions, and other wordiness
  Check out the prose revisions

• General guidelines for block and modified block letter formats

• Using jargon, limiting doublespeak, reducing excess verbiage

• Revising to have inclusive language

• Using good instruction language and technique for users

• Understanding the goals of technical communicators and technical communication in general

• Understanding technology from a social perspective

• Good tips from Ch. 6 on designing illustrations
  On second thought, we'll hold off on this.

Don't forget to review the Résumé and Cover Letter revision suggestion page.

Midterm Tomorrow

So tomorrow is the Midterm! We've come a long way, so keep up the good work. Remember, if you've paid attention in class and read, you'll do fine.

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