Reframing Questions

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 everything you have done. So it would be extremely effective and beneficial in storytelling and communicating your message out there as well.

3.              Technical Communication is often considered to be defined by its role in generating procedural rhetorics and discourse -- or instructional materials that offer authoritative guidance. How might our storytelling frame help us generate usable, user-friendly documents that enact their informative, instructional intentions?

If we have good technical communication skills, then we would be able to tell a story within the type of words we use and how we format and phrase it. By doing all that you would be creating usable documents and would be very easy for the reader to understand and connect with whatever you are trying to say or present.

4.              I used the hand-drawn, digitally manipulated image (above) early in the semester. I wanted to give you a sense of key concepts valuable to technical communicators. Do you identify more or less with any one or more of these keywords, following our coursework? If so, try to explain how you are developing these new sensibilities.

I agree with some of the words but not all of them, for example, I don’t really identify with the collaborate one. We haven’t really done any group work in our class yet, so I can’t really collaborate. But the creative, deliver and present is what I identify most in this class since that’s what we do the most in this course. But I think after the course is finished, I would be able to connect and identify with all of the words.