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1. Lecture PowerPoint: Introduction
2. Lecture Notes
3. Introduction Assessments
4. Audience Centered Communicaton Assessment
5. Format Assessment
6. Language and Tone Assessment
7. Visuals Assessments
8. Websites Assessments
9. Memo Assessment
10. Letters Assessments
11. Descriptive and Prescriptive Reports Assessments
12. Classification and Partition Reports Assessment
13. Informative Presentations Assessment
14. Research Assessment
15. Problem Analysis Assessment
16. Summaries and Responses Assessments
17. Proposal Assessments
18. Feasibilty Report Assessments
19. Rules of Writing Assessments
20. PDF
21. What is Technical Writing?
22. The Many Contexts of Communicating Technical Information
23. Legal Issues and Communication
24. Basic Assumptions and Potential Complications
25. Appreciating Different Cultures
26. Video: What is Technical Communication?
27. Audience-Centered Communication Overview
28. Appreciating Technical Communication Audiences
29. Rhetorical Nature of Technical and Professional Writing
30. Video: Definition Rules
31. Rules of Writing Overview
32. Basic Rules of Punctuation
33. Edit for Economy
34. Punctuation, Mechanics, Capitalization, and Spelling Introduction
35. Hyphens
36. Apostrophes
37. Quotation Marks
38. Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes
39. Commas
40. The Period
41. Parentheses
42. Abbreviations and Acronyms
43. Expressing Temperatures and Numbers
44. Capitalization
45. Spelling
46. Everyday Words that are Commonly Misspelled
47. Terms that are Commonly Misspelled in Technical Writing
48. Avoiding Confusing Terms
49. Legal Issues
50. Use Language That is Sensitive to Your Audience
51. How Will Your Reader Respond to This Tone?
52. Use Concrete, Sensory Language
53. Use the Active Voice
54. Read Your Paper Aloud to Check Cohesiveness
55. Use Parallel Structure
56. Rephrase Awkward Word Order
57. Eliminate Unnecessary Language
58. Video: "You Attitude" Tutorial
59. Format Overview
60. General Design Concepts
61. Additional Sources for Formatting
62. Video: Document Design
63. Memos Overview
64. Memos: Style for Students
65. Memos: Writing Commons
66. Memos: Purpose and Format
67. Video: Basic Memo
68. Video: Business Communication - Memos
69. Letters Overview
70. Example Letters
71. Professional Letters
72. Memorandums and Letters
73. Business Letters
74. Visuals Overview
75. The Value of Visual Instructions
76. Photos and Illustrations
77. Reports Overview
78. Composing Business Reports and Proposals
79. Procedure and Process Reports
80. Instructions and Process Reports
81. Examples of Instructional and Process Reports
82. Classification Reports and Partition Reports Overview
83. Organizational Patterns
84. Classifying
85. Comparing and Contrasting
86. Video: How to Write a Comparative Analysis
87. Research Overview
88. Textual Research
89. APA Documentation Overview
90. Basic Guidelines For Citing Resources
91. APA Style Documentation
92. APA Style In-Text Citations
93. APA Style Reference Lists
94. Questions to Evaluate the Authority of the Researcher's Methods
95. Demystify Research Methods
96. Intellectual Property
97. Problem Analysis Overview
98. Planning Reports (Annotated)
99. Summaries and Responses Overview
100. Summaries and Responses
101. The Proposal Overview
102. Preparing Business Proposals
103. Front Matter: Contents, Lists, and More
104. Ethics and Technical Communication
105. Feasibility Report Overview
106. Preparing Feasibility Studies
107. Front Matter: Contents, Lists, and More
108. Ethics and Technical Communication
109. Instructional Presentation Overview
110. Functions of the Presentation to Inform
111. Types of Presentations to Inform
112. Getting Started with an Informative Presentation
113. Preparing Your Informative Speech
114. Creating an Informative Presentation
115. Persuasive Presentation Overview
116. Functions of the Presentation to Persuade
117. Principles of Persuasion
118. Meeting the Listener's Basic Needs
119. Presentations to Persuade, Getting Started
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