To Guest,
1. Pirates or ninjas?
2. 2Pac or Biggy?
3. Star Wars or Star Trek?
4. Scrambled or over easy?
5. Ketchup or hot sauce?
6. Snow or sunshine?
7. Out until 5am or up at 5am?
8. Regrets or no regrets?
9. Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp?
10. Mac or PC?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Review of Technical Writing
This week in class our weekly blog assignment is to review the piece of technical writing we revised individually in class. I did a short review on Dan Cilen's work which is posted over on his blog.
This assignment was challenging as I have no experience with networking computers, and in this case the subject was antiquated software. After talking to Dan in class I know he had the same misunderstanding that I did with the topic.
After the first read through I did of Dan's revision I felt that it was done well. Even though I have know idea what the instructions are really for I think if I was in the situation where I had to use his instructions I would get the job done. About twenty five percent of the original document was excluded which made for an easy read. The tone throughout the instructions was non bias and generally friendly. Some points of criticism are in step four I would have liked to seen the reference to contacting a network administrator in parenthesise so I know it is not part of the instructions. And in step five it would be simpler to tell readers to check the box instead of "make sure", it would be more to the point.
Fine job Dan, with this simple writing style you would have made many frustrated desk-jockie's jobs easier when trying to establish a shared drives network.
This assignment was challenging as I have no experience with networking computers, and in this case the subject was antiquated software. After talking to Dan in class I know he had the same misunderstanding that I did with the topic.
After the first read through I did of Dan's revision I felt that it was done well. Even though I have know idea what the instructions are really for I think if I was in the situation where I had to use his instructions I would get the job done. About twenty five percent of the original document was excluded which made for an easy read. The tone throughout the instructions was non bias and generally friendly. Some points of criticism are in step four I would have liked to seen the reference to contacting a network administrator in parenthesise so I know it is not part of the instructions. And in step five it would be simpler to tell readers to check the box instead of "make sure", it would be more to the point.
Fine job Dan, with this simple writing style you would have made many frustrated desk-jockie's jobs easier when trying to establish a shared drives network.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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