Assignment
1. From your own experience, please provide a definition of technical writing.
2. Read over pages 129-131 of the article by Kitty Locker, "Will Professional Communication Be the Death of Business Communication?" The article is in the attachment.
-How does Locker distinguish technical writing from business writing?
-Write a couple of sentences or so in your response to this question.
3. Read over pages 325-326 of the article by Mark Gellis, "Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Course." The article is in the attachment.
-How does Gellis distinguish an essay from a report or a proposal?
-Write a couple of sentences or so in your response to this question.
4. In your life, have you written any documents that might be labeled technical writing? If so, what did you write?
5. In your life, have you had to read or work through a piece of technical writing that you found problematic? If so, what was the document, and why was it problematic to work with?