Is it Tech Comm?

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Read chapter 1 in Markel’s Technical Communication, 11e

Overview

You may have heard the terms “business writing,” “technical writing,” and “professional writing.” These types of writing fall under the domain of technical communication, which is the subject of this course. This activity, “Is it tech comm?” familiarizes you with the concepts and forms of technical communication.

The Society for Technical Communication (STC), the worlds largest and oldest professional organization for technical communicators, defines tech comm as any form of communication that exhibits one or more of the following characteristics:

Communicating about technical or specialized topics, such as computer applications, medical procedures, or environmental regulations.

Communicating by using technology, such as web pages, help files, or social media sites.

Providing instructions about how to do something, regardless of how technical the task is or even if technology is used to create or distribute that communication.

What to do

1. Use this Adobe Is It Tech Comm worksheet to help you define and analyze examples of technical communication based on the definition from the Society for Technical Communication and Markels Six Characteristics of a Technical Document.

How older adults can compensate for age-related physical declines.

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Write a 1000-1500 word essay addressing each of the following questions.

  1. Cite examples of how older adults can compensate for age-related physical declines.
  2. Cite evidence that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular dementia.
  3. Describe cognitive functions that are maintained or improve in late adulthood. What aspects of aging contribute to them?
  4. Cite features of neighborhoods and residential communities that enhance elders’ life satisfaction.
  5. Why is adjustment to late-life divorce usually more difficult for women and adjustment to widowhood more difficult for men?
  6. What psychological and workplace factors predict favorable adjustment to retirement?
  7. Explain why older adults think and talk more about death than do younger people but feel less anxious about it

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Relationship between television output and television viewing

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Critically consider the relationship between television output and television viewing with reference to at least one of the following: consumerism; security; domestic life; identity; self-expression

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Pseudoscience and healthcare

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Read the following article about pseudoscience and healthcare. Then, in one page (double spaced), summarize the article and reflect on what stood out to you. What is BIEB? What are some other examples of pseudoscience that you encounter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/the-pseudoscience-of-beauty-products/392201/

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