Wednesday, Mar. 12

Recap (5)

• Last week's classes focused on reflection activities and included some reflection on the Reading Responses. The most agreed-upon important concepts were: accessibility, plain language, and usability. Other important concepts for folks included collaboration, graphics, user research and usability testing, audience, cross-cultural resonance, multimodality, and ethics.

Potluck (5)

Timeline

• Project 2

  • • Activity 2.8 due by 11:59pm, Friday Mar. 14

• Project 3

  • • Activity 3.6 due by 11:59pm on Friday, Mar. 14

    • Activity 3.7 due by 11:59pm on Sunday, Mar. 16

    • Activity 3.8 due by 11:59pm on Friday, Mar. 21

• Final Reflection

• Reading Responses

  • • RR 20 due by noon on Friday, Mar. 14

    • Any outstanding RR assignments need to be submitted by Friday, Mar. 14 at 11:59pm

Final Reflection Examples (30)

Read (7)

Read Examples and Refer to prompt

Group 1. Read: 1 and 4 (read 3 if time)

Group 2. Read 2 and 4 (read 3 if time)

Group 3. Read 1 and 5 (read 2 if time)

Group 4. Read 2 and 5 (read 1 if time)

Group 5. 1, 3, and 5

Group 6. 2, 3, and 4

Group Work (10)

Which of the objectives are working well? Which of the objectives could be improved?

For each reflection, find at least 2 things working well. Find passages that demonstrate those strengths.

For each reflection, find at least 2 things that could be further developed. Explain specifically what this author could have done differently.

• Make claims about what you believe are the most important concepts 

• Support and/or situate your claims about technical communication using concepts, arguments, and ideas drawn from assigned course readings, material, and/or from your research for previous projects

• Refer to and cite at least three (3) items of content for the course, explaining the ideas from their authors’ perspectives, and explaining how you respond to those ideas.

• Refer to and cite at least three (3) items of your own work for the course, that illustrates why you believe what you believe

• Explain how the important concepts you identify will most likely inform the ways you practice course concepts in current or future academic, professional, and community spaces (you must have at least 1 application)

• Give examples of how you are most likely to practice course practices in academic, professional, and/or community spaces 

• Explain how concepts from technical communication will be most likely to benefit the academic, professional, or community spaces where you are most likely to practice technical communication 

Group Discussion (10)

Reflection ActivitY (30)

Individual Work

Individually review your work. Review your work for Project 1 and Project 2.

Individual Writing (10)

1. What from this project connects to the most important ideas for technical communication? 

2. Why are those the most important ideas for you? How do they help you understand technical communication as a subject and practice? 

3. Which of skills are you most likely to implement in your future academic, professional, and community work? What are some specific ways you can see yourself implementing those ideas and practices?

Group Work (10)

Groups: 

1. Kosuke, Henry, Kyle, Kendra, Helen

2. Migo, Nick, Agustin, Langston, Kathan

3. Ethan, Liam, George, Jake, Anabelle

4. Anzhuo, Kira, Birtu, Esperanza, Michelle

Share your statements in groups of 4-5. After everybody has shared, develop a group statement:

1. The most important idea(s) about technical communication are...

2. The idea(s) are important for technical communication because...

3. Some specific places we can see ourselves implementing these ideas and approaches are...

4. Some specific ways we can see ourselves using these ideas are…

5. Some individual members also mentioned some of their most important ideas were…

6. They found it important because…

Write your group statement on the shared Google Doc. Use your group's document tab (left panel, #1-6)

Share (10)

Narrative