Really cool and interactive page and editing and rewriting processes

Presentation on the aspects of a few different types of formal reports.

How to on writing memos.

This showcases the four different elements that the federal government has indicated legally make up the idea or concept of fair use of material. Knowing these rules is especially important for students in this ever growing informational age to assure that they are properly representing work.

This is a piece about public domain and its role with the legal system of managing the rights of information and the publishing from authors. The link will help define public domain as well as increase understanding on the role it has associated with copyrighting.

This link follows some of the same ideas as my first push but is slightly different. It also has many ideas to make our blogs better, 14 to be exact, but they are centered around plug ins that will make our blogs safer, protected, efficient, etc. My favorite plug in from the link was the word press PDA and Iphone as on the go wireless activity is the future.

This was really interesting to read through as it has so many ideas to change and modify our blogs. There are 20 ideas in all through the article some of which are similar to programs we have used so far in the class. My favorite idea was featured posts carousel like you see on many web site with their news feeds.

The reason I liked reading about this resource is that it is relateable to us and shows a direct connection to the concept about transnational communication. This study was about looking how Arab's of middle eastern descent have settled in a large area around Detroit now sit maintain and create connections with their families, heritage, and friends located half the world away. To me this shows a real world application of how this happens and the essay goes on to look at several parts of the communities and how age and technology play roles into this equation as well. While it does not really go into some of the definitions of the textbook I think it is more important with its actually occurrence and discovering what, how, why, and when it is happening in society.

Great Article that look at the different types of Workplace writing compared to the traditional Academic writings,how the two are different and where does Ethics become involved.

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.

My mindmap for TWC 301

This overview of technical communication was helpful as it coincides with the first chapter introduction but also gave some history and in depth look at parts of the chapter.