280: usability studies and focus groups. Run an experiment, write it up!

jess: a book. cf Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby

Tomeka: start-up template, providing technical writing solutions for friends' business ventures

select your template, and start cutting:

4260 Assignment Options: a short and growing list of templates, genres, and formats. Do you have a project? Add your outcomes and deliverables, here:

more assignment options this excerpt from Paul Anderson's Technical Communication provides templates for traditional and commonplace technical writing scenarios

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production

a business execution plan

a contract extension justification

a sole source contracting justification

a web application testing plan

a standard operating procedure

a legal briefs

a legal pleadings

a contract

a personal statement

a mission statement

a sell sheet

a direct email

a brochure

an advertisement

a sales letter

a presentation

a catalogue

an interview

a website

a suite of promotional materials, such as: Business Cards, Flyers, event program guides, radio commericals, magazine advertisments, information awareness and resource awareness pamphlets (cf Women's Fashion for a Cause)

This list, compiled by Pat Fried of MZHS, shows the dazzling variety of forms required to sustain a human services center:

Public and Private Grant research and writing

Technical Application

Policy and Procedures

Board Reports

Business Plans

Strategic Plans

Outcomes and Evaluation/Outcome reporting

Survey/Survey Analysis

Behavioral Interviews

Job Descriptions

Press Release

Newsletters

Agency or Program Pamphlets/Brochures

Project Plan/Project Management

Letters of Interest

Proposals

Program Evaluation

Environmental Assessment

Annual Report

Logic Model

Annual Appeal

Fundraising Materials

Multimedia Agency Advertising

Web Development

Curriculum Development

Training Manuals

Lesson Plans

Performance Improvement Plan

a growing list of professional/technical communication goals and issues

Cultural, gender, ethnic, religious, and geographical influences

Interpersonal communications

Public relations and public advocacy

Community mobilization

traditional rhetoric: situation analysis and audience profile

vision statements, mission statements

project evaluations and proposals

UNIT OUTCOMES

case studies (exploring issues, narrative, technical definitions)

usability

read: critical power tools: technical communication and cultural studies chapter 3, Dilger (handout)

280: faqs, how-tos,usability

read: ubuntu hacks

technical documentation: final projects