Peer Collaboration Evaluation Forms: submit AFTER completing final revisions

Tue, 04/28/2009 - 11:46 — TracyC

As mentioned within the project pages for the White Paper and Technical Marketing projects, each individual group member will complete a peer collaborative evaluation form for each of the two group projects.  Within these forms, you will provide complete, and candid, assessments of the work you contributed for each project, as well as the work that each of your fellow group members did.  I will take these evaulations into consideration when assigning individual grades to group projects -- so please comment not only on those students wh

Technical Marketing Project: peer review guidelines

Thu, 04/23/2009 - 12:58 — TracyC

During our peer review session, each individual group member will post his or her feedback as a comment to the writers' story post (on the front page of the course website).  Please address the following, as they present -- or don't present -- themselves within the writers' technical marketing document draft.

Writing

White Paper Project: peer review assignments and directions

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:30 — TracyC

Here are the group assignments for tomorrow's peer review activity:

1:30

  • iPhone and multimedia players
  • open source biosurveillance and Wikipedia

3:00

Tracy's blog 6: incorporating visuals into your white paper

Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:01 — TracyC

As mentioned in the email I sent this morning, I am ill and won't be able to come to class today.  I would still like to cover today's scheduled activities, hence this Instructor's blog.

Tracy's blog 5: Guidelines/suggestions for Draft 1

Thu, 02/26/2009 - 06:44 — TracyC

 
Remember, the first draft of your white paper is due tonight at midnight.  As I've mentioned before, I won't grade these drafts -- but I will provide feedback.  With this in mind, here are some guidelines/suggestions to keep in mind as you're putting together your drafts today:
Major details

Tracy's blog 4: a bit more about sources and source types

Wed, 02/25/2009 - 22:33 — TracyC

I had mentioned in class yesterday that I would blog on those items I didn't have a chance to cover.  So here's where I'll go into a bit more detail regarding those sources you may not have otherwise considered for your white papers.

Tracy's blog 3: More about the White Paper Project

Sun, 02/15/2009 - 13:00 — TracyC

This past week's readings explore the open source movement, its origins, and how it relates to those proprietary options more recognizable to us. Here are some issues/questions we will likely consider at some point during the course of the White Paper Project:

Quick Guide Project: documentation review checklist

Tue, 02/03/2009 - 06:27 — TracyC

As you know, today's class will consist of documentation review, for which your assigned tester will read through your documentation (but not actually complete steps until Wednesday's scheduled usability testing session).  Even before documentation review, I would like you to have your assigned tester complete a survey, in which you solicit information that will help you shape your documentation to meet your audiences' needs.

Quick Guide Project: usability testing assignments

Mon, 02/02/2009 - 22:00 — TracyC

Here are the usability testing assignments.  To locate your assigned testing partner's deliverables, click on the Members link and then click on the appropriate person's name.

1:30 class

Tracy's blog 2: audience analysis issues

Mon, 01/26/2009 - 07:41 — TracyC

As you’ve surely gathered by now, technical writing is at least as much about the audience as it is about the document.  This past Thursday, we looked at research and began to discuss writing for target audiences – both from the larger perspective of technical writing as a whole and from the more specific perspective of documentation (particularly software documentation).  I'd like to go into a bit more detail regarding writing for target audiences.