Tuesday, October 7, 2008
WEEK TWO
What I have learned this week ,from reading chapter two, is making sure I keep the audience in mind when using technical communication. I am a Medical Technologist by profession, and we use a whole lot of documentation. The purpose of this documentation is to convey to the reader what they are doing and making sure they are following procedure. I may even have to revise a certain procedure or even write one and I have to make sure and ask myself; Who will be reading or using this material? Why is this information needed? What will they do with this information? I would be addressing an expert audience ,so then I would not have to go into great detail about what this or that means as opposed to presenting to an audience who knows nothing about lab procedures.
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I agree with your post. It is important in your field of employment to communicate, because one miscommunication can cause other errors when typing and reviewing your documents. Nice work.
I also felt that was the main idea of the chapter and makes you take a minute to think before you begin to type.
It sounds like you have an edge over some of us, since you have some technical writing experience already.
By the way, I looked up the assignment schedule that you told me about. It's basically the same one I'm using, only the due dates are even older. So I guess that means that the schedule is the same every quarter. Thanks!
i took intro to humanities last quarter that was a good class i think you will like it
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