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Great source of information, check it out.

This website shows how to manage conflict in a group/team setting.

This site shows different advertisements that, for the most part, do a great job of showing emphasis. Most use color, boldness, or hierarchy to convey their message.

This site is really simple but offers some good points about designing effective logos. The textbook offers an example of logo design, so I wanted to explore some more information. According to this site, there are four main principles: the logo should be simple, versatile, memorable, and relevant. One good point the author made was that most of the top corporate companies use only one or two colors in their logo. A logo must also be expected to appear in many different formats, ranging from a billboard designed to be seen from a distance to a logo etched onto a pencil.

This website offers more information on the phenomenon of "Groupthink," how to spot it, and how to avoid it. This is mainly intended for the workplace, but a lot of it is relevant for school groups, too. The term "Groupthink" was coined by Irving Janis, who pointed out that Groupthink occurs when there is one strong, persuasive group leader, a high level of group cohesion, and intense pressure from an outside source to make a good decision. This site suggests that when a group is in the decision-making process, in order to avoid Groupthink, they should make a point to explore objectives and alternatives, as well as to encourage members to challenge each others' ideas. The "Team Writing" text mentioned using brainstorming as a tactic, in which ideas are allowed to flow freely without any form of evaluation from the group. This site mentions such a tactic, as well as spreading out contribution to include everyone and giving each member a different perspective so that someone will always be playing the "Devil's Advocate."

This has a lot of information about how to address audiences and their expectations.

Help with rhetorical writing.

This is a very nice website that explains the uses of Chapter 2's rhetorical writing methods.

A useful rhetorical writing page.

I thought this was good info to reflect on figure 1.1 on page 6 of chapter 1. I thought the Pellet gun safety warnings were sub standard when considering gun safety in general.

I thought this was a good find. I was looking for a new theme and this site seemed to influence me in such that I would be choosing a top theme, so I did.

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The HTW on page 165 regarding correspondence. Signatures provide contact information and in some signature blocks allows for a web link. I currently use a signature block with a web link and I also include a green field and a confidentiality clause. In the event the e-mail goes to the wrong person the confidentiality clause states to notify me and dispose of the mail. When working with highly sensitive material, it is a good idea to include a confidentiality clause with your signiture.

Understanding the Audience For a Technical Writing Project

Traditional textbook rationales for the technical writing course locate the essence of technical writing in objectivity, clarity, and neutrality, and the need for teaching it in its usefulness to employers. Such rationales, however, are unable to accommodate a notion of ethics and responsibility: if the writer merely serves the interests that employ her by reporting facts in an objective way, how can she exercise choice when ethical problems arise? An alternative view is to see technical writing as always rhetorical and involved with potentially conflicting agendas and interests, with objectivity, clarity, and neutrality serving merely as stylistic devices in the writer's rhetorical toolbox. Technical writers are rhetoricians who continually make ethical choices in serving diverse interests and negotiating between conflicting demands. The recognition of the fundamental rhetoricity of technical writing is the first step towards accommodating a meaningful notion of ethics into the technical writing curriculum.