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1.              Describe how you understand the meaning of "Technical Communication." My personal understanding of technical communication is when you are able to communicate in a series of different documents and forms. It’s not just only communicating in person, but also taking it to a whole new level and expanding it from there. Some job field and titles that really use technical communications are engineers, developers & hardware etc. 2.              Explain how a notion of Technical Communication as "Storytelling" is helpful in generative effective documents, reports, and other forms of communication. A notion of Technical writing can be helpful as storytelling because it can tell people what you know or what you have been through. For example, a résumé would have all your accomplishments and it would give the employer a timeline of everythi...

This project really focuses on storytelling as a heuristic, by making us create a journal and write down the steps on how we created our brand new design for the poster. This project really made me focus on the small details of the posters, and even research what some of the topics meant because I didn’t know what half of them were actually about. The main reason why this assignment really showed “heuristic” story telling because, we had to choose a poster we saw around the school and jot down the stuff we liked and didn’t like. Throughout the whole process, I learned how to use different programs, and different creative ideas, so my redesign was more effective than the original. Overall, it was a learning experience throughout the whole thing, and made me learn a lot of new things when I was in process of making the new design.