These readings and resources are selected to stimulate class discussion and to further our understanding of course topics. My selection of a link is not necessarily an endorsement of the author's work.
Covington, Barksdale, Egan-Warren, Larsen, & Trunso, "Communication in the Workplace: What Can NC State Students Expect?"
Writing Processes
Definitions of Technical Writing
Porter, "Forum Analysis"
CARS Checklist for Research Source Evaluation
Harris, "Evaluating Internet Research Sources"
Kittle, "Reading Practices as Revision Strategies: The Gossipy Reading Model"
Lank, “Making 1040s a Bit Less Taxing”
Petersen, "Writing for a Web Audience"
Morris, "The ABCs of Building a Website: Amateur Web Sites--The Top Ten Signs"
Nielsen, "F-Shaped Pattern for Reading Web Content"
Genre Conventions: Advice & Samples
Correspondence
Just Follow Law: CC&BCC (YouTube)
The Writing Center, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Business Letters"
Zuidema, "What a Memo Is and How to Write One"
Purdue University Online Writing Lab, "Memo Writing"
Engineering Communication Center @ the U of Toronto, "The Memo"
Epstein, "Be Polite, E-Polite"
Miller, "10 Ways to Be Useful on Twitter"
FAITC, Centre for Intercultural Learning
Citrin, "The Art of the Perfect Voicemail"
Application materials
Korver, "The Ethics of Resume Writing"
Du, "Job Candidates Getting Tripped Up By Facebook"
Finder, "For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume"
Zupek, "Job Search No Place for Emoticons and Texting"
Aspan, "How Sticky is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free"
Technical Writing Zone:
Technical
Writing Jobs
Fact Sheets
U.S. Department of Energey, "Hydrogen Fuel Cells"
American Wind Energy Association "Wind Power--Clean AND Reliable"
Kaiser Family Foundation, "U.S. Teen Sexual Activity"
U.S. Census Bureau, "It's About Us: 2010 Census in Schools"
HealthReform.gov, "Coming Together to Bring Down the Cost of Health Care"
Descriptions
Jerz, "Writing a Mechanism Description"
EBSTC, "Paper Clip"
Jerz, "Writing a Process Description"
How Stuff Works
Oriel, "Guide to Specification Writing for U.S. Government Engineers"
PowerPoint
Alley, "Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides" [+ ppt criticism]
Dilbert on PowerPoint, 02.22.2010
Alley, templates for presentation slides (a.k.a. PowerPoint)
Kawaski, "10-20-30 Presentation Rule"
Norvig, "The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation"
Scientific Reports and Posters
The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Scientific Reports"
Virginia Tech, "Design of Scientific Posters"
The Ohio State University, "15 Simple Steps to Developing Posters Using PowerPoint"
Style Study
Semicolons with conjunctive adverbs
Grammar Girl's Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Phrasal Verbs Dictionary
“Paramedic Method: A Lesson in Writing Concisely.”
Tools for Managing Sources
Dordt Library Reference Materials
Doc Scribe's Guides to Research Style (AMA, APA, ASA, CBE, CMS, MLA, EOS)
Google Docs
Zotero--collect, manage, & cite research sources (Mozilla Firefox only)
Create a Graph
Web Cite
Web Design Aids
Web Portfolio Samples for Analysis
(not necessarily models)
Samples as compliled on Kairosnews
Penn State eportfolio gallery
Carlile (Michigan State)
Fasca (BSJ, Ohio U)
Den Boer (Dordt)
Maksimova (Iowa State)
Slon (BA & LLB, U of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Not a portfolio, but an interesting way of presenting an article: Arola & Ball, "From 'They Call Me Doctor?' to Tenure"
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