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Technical Communication Resources - Assignments
These are assignments I have used in technical communication class for the past eight years.
Forms, Procedures and Templates
- Syllabus Template- including space
for twice-weekly assignments.
- Short Speech Evaluation
Form - a form for each student to critique the oral presentation
of another - after the presentation, the presenter should have a good
view of how others perceived the talk. Two fit on one page.
- Lego Exercise - a really fun
and educational exercise that can be used early in the semester so
that the class can get to know each other (and also so that they can
learn how hard it is to write easy directions).
- Introduce Yourself Freewriting
- for the first day of class to get an idea of who your students are.
- Peer Review Forms - there
are two three-page forms for both the Procedure Peer Review and the
Proposal Peer Review. They are anonymous so that students can really
give each other honest feedback - just tear the cover sheet off after
collecting.
- Professor Johnson's MS Word Tips and
Tricks- some basic tips for creating slick Word documents.
- MS Word's Track Changes Feature
- this complex an annoying feature of Word is widely used in academia
AND industry when people are working on documents together. You can
get to know it now or you will have to get to know it on the job.
- How to Use Windows Explorer as a Filing System - this is provided as an example of a procedure, but I'm also including it here in case you YOURSELF don't yet do this - it's handy to be able to organize your papers so that they can be easily accessed.
Technical Communication Assessment Information
Humanities, University Heights, Newark, NJ, 07102; cjohnson@njit.edu
