Posted: October 2nd, 2013

assignment and paper

This is two different assignment and paper 1 is here and paper 2 would be attachment..


DIRECTIONS: In most professions, you will be expected to write formal and informal discourses.  These documents might be research reports, proposals, letters, emails, memos…

Therefore, for this assignment, you need to research the kinds of writing you will be expected to do in your career.  You need to conduct an informal face-to-face or email interview with a member of your chosen profession or a technical communicator in a related field or industry. 

When conducting your interview, you want to think about:

    What types of writing can you expect to do on the job?
    What audiences will you be writing for?  What are their interests?  Concerns?  Expectations?
    How much of your writing will be transmitted or published in electronic forms (Websites, intranets?) or in print?
    What exigencies or constraints do these writers experience?  Time constraints?  Lack of resources?  Audience expectations?  Audience resistance?

Once you are done with your interview, summarize your findings in a 250-400 word original posting to this discussion forum.  Do NOT simply copy and paste your interviewee’s responses into the posting.  If you are directly quoting, put the statements in quotation marks.  Otherwise, put the interviewee’s statements into your own words.  Also, do not organize your response in Q/A format.  Integrate the responses into easy-to-read and organized paragarphs.

Once you have completed your posting, respond to at least two of your peers’ postings.  Each response should be at least 50-100 words and in your response, comment on your peers’ posts’

    Development and Organization (Is it an organized response to the prompt?),
    Layout (It is easy to read/scan quickly?),
    Style and Mechanics (Is the tone formal?  Grammar and mechanical errors?), and
    Improvement and Revision (Offer at least one suggestion for improvement or revision for future assignments).

REMEMBER:  Your original posts and responses must be on topic, written in complete sentences, formal in tone, and constructive.  Any posts or responses that fail to meet these guidelines will be deleted.

Finally, only two responses to an original thread.  If a student already has two responses, please move on to another student.  Please include the word count at the bottom of each original post and response.