Category Archives: WR327: Technical Writing

Super Tuesday infographics

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Michael

via Information Aesthetics, check out this blog post about infographics used to depict Super Tuesday primary results. Something to use in class, perhaps, as we talk about graphics in technical writing.

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ethics in technical communication

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Michael

I’m reading my technical writing students’ homework on ethics in documents. They were assigned to find an article, advertisement, or other document that contains untrue or misleading information and discuss (in a memo to me) the ethics behind it. In … Continue reading →

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olympics rules on what bodies count

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Michael

Via Clay Spinuzzi, The NY Times has an article today on runner Oscar Pistorius, who is a double-amputee. The Olympics have ruled that, because they believe his prosthetic legs give him an advantage, that he is disqualified from the Olympics. … Continue reading →

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technical writing course description

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Michael

I went ahead and turned in my book choice and course description for WR327: Technical Writing today. Despite not much time to select a book, I went ahead and chose Mike Markel’s Technical Communication, 8th ed. Here’s my course description … Continue reading →

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i’m teaching technical writing winter term

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Michael

We just got our course assignments for winter term, and I found out I’m teaching WR214: Writing in Business again (2 sections) and 2 sections of WR317: Technical Writing. I’m excited; this should be fun. However, we have to have … Continue reading →

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