ENGL 2150: Technical Writing | Fall 2008
M C Morgan, Prof English | my email | Morgan's Wiki
Tues 2 Dec
- work day
Wikipedia Materials
Style Guide: Use this to guide your technical and literary editing
Focused articles
Questions: Refer to
Thurs 4 Dec
- Wikipedia editing complete
- Each group will make a brief presentation on changes, editing, problems, how addressed.
- Make sure the link points to the page you edited.
- Refer to Wikipedia: Writing Better Articles handout.
Recommended Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Tues 9 Dec
- Last day of class
- Evaluations
on deck
- Debrief on Lists exercise: statementdraft
- Rosenberg, Chap 11: Manuals
- Chap 4: Words
- Chap 5: Sentences: active and passive voice
- Chap 18: Editing
- Chap 7: Lists
* Rosenberg, Chap 3: Doc Specs
* debrief on resumes
Group Projects
Multi touch tech. manual. Eric and Joe
Bear Manual Helen, Mallory and Wayne
Amazon.com Manual Valerie, Sarah, and James
Curlers Tim, Josey, Jeremy
Happy Campers Rick, Briana, Brent
On deck
- Dec 10: Finals Prep Day: HS 109 in use for 18th Annual Share the Future Workshop.
Participants
JoseyBain | EricBinkert | BridgetCorson | TimEvans | SarahFlannigan | KatieFoshay | BrianaFrench | JamesGregory | HelenHansen | JamieKueber | MalloryMeredith | ChristopherMiles | MatthewOBrien | RossOrrock | JosephRatuski | WayneSchmeling | BarbSuper | ValerieVanVickle | JeremyWieneke | BrentWilde |MikeCopple | RichardKramer || BethJensen | StudentName | StudentName | StudentName | | JillStudent | JoeStudent | M C Morgan
Extras
Tech Writing on a Postcard
Exercises and Assignments
Tech Writing for $$s
- Technical Writer What they do
- Technical Writing at Wikiversity
- Society for Technical Communication Tech Writing professional organization
- Writing Assistance Inc A writer-for-hire clearing house. Get a sense of what tech writers, copywriters, and web content writers are asked to do.
More
Uploading to this wiki
- Prep, compress, and size the image first. Save the file to a local disk.
- Max size: 640 X 480 px. That's a standard low- to medium-level resolution image from a digital camera.
- Max file size: 500 kb
- Go into Edit mode. Click where you want the image on the page. Click on the Picture Icon in the Toolbar to open the MediaManager.
- You can make some limited size adjustments: http://www.dokuwiki.org/syntax
