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Rope making
Fiber arts of all sorts depend on the basics of twisting loose fibers into strands, then twisting or braiding them into rope or yarn.  The basic theory is the same for rope, yarn, thread or hair braiding.  Many useful fibers exist besides hemp, cotton and wool. Some are more difficult to separate into useable resources, hence are not used as much because they require more effort.  In ropemaking, ideally you would want to stick with the strongest, best fibers, but resourceful people will find ways to make rope and other useful items from unlikely sources.
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Making Fires

People stranded must resort to older methods of heating, cooking, smelting etc.  Current technology has all but eliminated skills that were once essential for all people to know.  It is possible to survive without fires, but more comfortable and convenient with them.
Rachel Tracy
Epilogue:  What Can We Learn From All This?  pages 363-367
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Discussion on Magnesium mine operation

introducing a book for the writing conference for social change

Luddite

Setup for class

Computer Projector is always off

Overhead always has to be moved

Canaries on the rim

living downwind in the west

chip ward

Discussion on operations at Dugway Proving Grounds.

Chlorine production plant

Tooele army depot

recycle munitions

to enhance his rhetoric, he's been hyperbolic

Discussion on waist belts for their packs.

The bigger you are the greater the distance between

Chapter 2 Discussion Death in Grand Canyon

100 Arabic number but three is spelled out in text page 83 why isn't there a hyphen there?

page 81

go back to 64 the rule varies between style guide after ten you use the Arabic number

100-degree day

100 no hyphen degrees

compund adjective--100 degrees, no hyphen

one's a ranger and river guide and one is a physician in Flagstaff

make great analytical deductions from the stories

Each carried a minimum of three two liter

page 81 last paragraph toward the bottom

why between liter and quart

attribute

tech writing teacher, don't mix measurements

10 or below spell it out, above use Arabic

Stay in Arabic if document is highly technical

if jumping back and forth confusing to the mind and slows down cognition

page 81 last comlete paragraph mixing metric and English  probably how they were measured out

one has arabic and one has spelled out

Define what two liter bottles and canteens per boy

comma doesn't need to be there

3 and two can be misconstrued  change the 3 to text

What is the antecedent of that?

this amount of water was also meant to prepare dehydrated food

noun ought to be really close

be consistent  there will be errors in any text

texts are never consistent

stay on 81

one anecdote then transitions

go to paragraph that starts "the lesson"

summarizes lesson learned

Never fall asleep at a sleepover, lesson learned.

the lesson learned, linda's losses,
more serious note-may have influenced other hikers

transition, even so

go on to another story, interspersed comical quixotic stories of survival with stories of death

what would you say about accessibility to different anecdotes

more explicit within chapters, sections, subsection break and subheading

next case--adults never take responsibility for the problem

the way the authors break down the problem is really good

go to 85 to the end

what went wrong here

now we are in summative text

brekdown analytically

those responsible chose not only the hottest but the driest,

71 hyphen year old

trip was made up of novice grand canyon hikers

need to carry so much water

good accounting of tragically incompetently led scout trip

scale a quart an hour in direct sun and shade

metaphor--inverted mountain

easier to go down than come back up

anecdote about troops

don't tr;y hiking those mountains--scale, no sense of scale or vastness, seasonality season is a function of time geographis space and altitude

teach in A block of summer

next spring he is teaching wilderness writing

in order to read the txt

great first text is the wilderness itself

anything else is secondary research

high country in May

spring thaw a glorious time

snow lilies

animals

prepare for travel

no gators no

altitude vs progression of time

bullet list format to make it pop out more

hanging indent

subheadings to break up anecdotes would be useful in this text

One other thing in the style and craft of writing

is it passive voice?  Almost never

page 84
quote--Melanie Miles--spent most ofher time with the boys

within three to four hours, definitely more

clear writing

specific detail never generalize

Phillips all jumbled und a mesquite tree

quote fromt he book about Phillips  clearly stated active voice

puls was 180

blood pressure was extremely low

good quiz question what was linda dog's name

she was from pennsylvania

jumping to the table

knock off headers from table not really necessary

Photoshop revision of the cover

don't need photoshop

pulleout maps

synaptic design

If you put some leading between the date and location an circumstances sections might be more readable  they need to look like separate objects

how many typefaces is it using?  One bold italicized and sizze changed a little bitt

use one typeface.  Keep it simple

sturgeions law

if you open to everyone the quality of publishing will decrease

aesthetic sensibility is often lacking in desktop publishing

almost finished, discussion on directors

did anoyne read death from the air

helicopter flying down the canyon got tangled in the wire

Famous image on the back, huge boat

boatlike qualities not airplane qualities

one last thing

Monday--Consultations Monday

See where we are on our projects if in teams come together as team groups

If we hurry

4pm in his office, recyclers

3:30

245 daedalus
330 herbals
400 recyclers
430 off gridders









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recto right,
verso left

pictograph serves as a chapter marker

chapter about how many people fall here

heat strke

swimming in water

great cement mixer

so much silt its like a cement mixer

why not move content to the bottom

header vs footer

goe where the eyes hit the page first content

signposts, navigation tools

secondary even tertiary

Header is competing with the chapter titl

move all of the header elements at the bottom of the page

move secondary information down

Title

what we geneerally do with titles

truncate titles to make them less obtrusive

instead of saying chapter on do

truncate instead of chapter three say just 3

when tehey're in their own text

both quotes

most dangerous hting you can do

falls heat exhaustion

recreation

fall

falling i
Leave it alone
data skewing

FAA

discussion on skewed



tie in graphic

icon used

creating the icon then repeating it in the header

get rid of the underline

what is the underline doing to the typogrohy

get rid of it

interrupts the flow

thye use a hook

amelias raise

race
n  madeus

en madeus race

in the middle of things

start in progress

get her off that wall

how would you redo that sentence

how do you fix that sentence

one used blind as the main verb

rule

if you are writing and revising

keep an editing list of things to revise

the string ly

"ly"adverbs, things you can get rid of

blindingly is overwritten you can get rid of it

flash bulbs blinded him

how many dots are there
why four dots

ellpsis

how many in one ellpsis

means an ellipsis with a period at the end

four dots because of

there are a few cases of ellipsis use

I walak the dog when jackson is away...having been given the responsibility

means still in the same sentence having deleted some text

ellipsis plus a period

period.
each dot variation means something..  with space, without space

without space is a period

put space between each dot it looks cooler

Jackson finally....Whew

lost material started another sentence

Canada geese

period ellipsis or ellpsis period?

Creative writing, use an ellipsis to trail off

what happens i

n the next paragraph


how does the next paragraph end

ellipsis

quotations outside of

italic indented text

So extended quote

one thing we do in extended quotes is indent the quotes

italics

don't need italics

indentation is enough to set off the quote

italics to indicate internal dialogue

don't need to italicize it

from here on conventional storytelling mode

Doppler effect

story after story

summation

end of each chapter statistics

children don't fall into the Grand Canyon generally

adults and double standards


falls within the canyon on page 27

1 thousand cubic miles

last sentince very large technical detailed geological

constantly taxonomizing or putting things in buckets

constantly analytically breaking it dodown

what are dendrites

dendritic discussion

nervous system

a dendrite is a branch

branching, seeping anohter mineral into it

any complex branching might be called dendritic



like tree roots

look at the table

for that first chapter

name and age

date locationa nd circumstances

location on rim

circumstance id folded under yet given its own column

what if you blow away the header for this table

its not going to be difficult to understand

dates

structure of the table is self defining, doesn't really need a header



how good is the documentation

up until the thrities pretty good

does this have an index?

does this have an appendix

very easy to find people and deaths in the tables and in the index you can find the longer accounts


explanation of why this book was written discussion

how to instructions

more liberal on sourcing in tech comm

validate how reputable the source is

page 227

chapter 5 if looks could kill

Vern's book is a different copy

newly expanded tenth anniversary edition with added material



parachute drop


in the middle

next chapter to read from this

Chapter 2

the desert crucible the desert crucible environmental death

title should be the same


what happened to deedee after she fell off the edgefrom narrative to analytical mo

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24 Oct 2012

Easier to teach to a worker than individuals with a sense of entitlement.
Rope making document
Did you revise the document after class discussion on Monday?What are the tradeoffs between using>>> and a generic image
look at that title
what are the two main elements of a title?
Content
Rhetorical structure of its content
Last paper--proposal
colon
title purpose subject
purpose of this document
Process description, not object description
Cut the whole title and put how to make rope
first thing in a document when you put it in someone's hands make sure they know what they're looking at
how to make rope using the acme rope maker
caption
what about captioning and graphics
captions are short and tell about the graphic
select graphic object
Where does the caption go under a graphic
look at the National Geographic and see where they put their captions
Typography leading and size
A lot of documents, leading is in the same Can stay in that case for your caption.
The rope making machine.
Figure 1 no numbering the image if it is from that page or the page facing set
If a couple of pages, then needs Fig 1 etc.
If its not yours, you are plagiarizing if you don't cite it.
Reference page
If it isn't yours you cite it.
text differentiated from the surrounding text
display different kinds of text in very small size
analytical organization of this document
Analytical--how it is broken into parts
First paragraph of the proposal overview of project what the project will contain
Missing introductory paragraph explaining what the document is for
Show the styles in the styles tool
click on materials list
click on the rope machine
Should it be in heading or subordinate to materials?
If he hits the hard return right now shift=enter line breaks and stays in the paragraph
edit the style to make it go to a body paragraph main paragraph is to have an introduction that describes your entire paper.
second paragraph needs an introduction to just that section.
introductory paragraph to just that section materials.
analytical writing 101
contract for some client, and write a proposal, or software implementation
explicit writing is necessary to make things clear fro people
Introduce analytical structure
like little nested essays over and over
still need an intro paragraph. for the entire document
Discussion on Santa Claus
Bullet list appropriate
difference in followup question
when a numbered list or bullet
there is a better way If order is significant use a number list
if order is not significant use a bullet list
form follows function
was order significant, yes because
more than one reason for order to be significant
one for counting
one for listing in sequence
If 20 steps, that is too many, need to be broken into sublists
Elegant design vs. pretty
elegant means functional
you can use certain typography that will make people avoid your stuff
Discussion on trade show and attention/volume
When we want someone to notice us we tend to shout
What do we do when its critical
call attention with different colors, bolding, parse out of text flow
dummies books are bad design
Bold text used for warning text
different from the design of the rest of the package so it is parsed out and we don't see it.
Modified into a number list by Ashley
Constancia 12
Sticky key
Putting a new style on it
based on no style
TiTles
needs purpose and subject
In the title
purpose ropemaking gude
Discussion on last batman movie
dark knight rises
subtitles
rhetorical structure is title and main title under
ropemaking guide how to twist twine to make a rope.
The longer the line width the more difficult for the eye to track
hierarchical
this text is subordinate to that heading
modify styles right click on body
how many typefaces pn this page? One. Clean. it works, doesn't distract.
No double hard returns
If you are really in a hurry do it right the first time then no time will be wasted catching up
update
groupings and so on
work on styles
remember hierarchy and establish that alignment
pull bullet item in and update it
Paper will describe how to make a rope step by step
document is a guide
most specific term the best term to use
How to--different functions
One how to is an adjective so it is hyphenated
When it isn't it doesn't need to be hyphenated
progressive form of a verb, put them together they become an adjective
moved text around
don't try to flow text around an image Steps required
Processes
transitive sentence
overhand knot on ropemaking board hyphenated or not?
Yes describing the board
make sure you break your steps down
from google images
if its a step do a step
if its not a step, pull it out of the steps

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22 Oct 2012

Purpose of this paper is to apply the paramedic method
work the problem in lanhamian method
preposition who's kicking who there
go back to the second sentence and compare it to the first sentence take out we will in the first sentence and lets see what you've got
 difference
 literary present, always in the present, go with describes instead of will describe because its a little more intense.
 materials needed
 Twine to strand, drew it by hand loved drawing in kindergarten now if a drawing is needed can't do it
 elementary, simple, straightforward and understandable.
 everything has meaning even blank space
 Steps needed to make rope list steps in the introduction
 this part might be formatted into a bullet list
 if text gets too dense, break it up into a bullet list What's the difference between this element here and that one there
 keeps the style
 this is a line break within the paragraph
 pull the margin to the right half an inch this is called a hanging paragraph
 when we have an object being defined we use tag paragraphs
 In Microsoft Word, most is going to be done in a lowest commondenominator toolmake it simple
 linear text model vs object oriented model
 in a linear text model it is a disaster
 Start out designing with styles
  If you've got to use word and do a lot of editing in Word attach them to end text and start text so it will move with the text.
 Bean counter
 I don't think number lock is on
 its not anymore
 further down
 new document very similar to the needs of this document very process intensive
 twine six time the desired length of rope
 when you twist the rope it contracts
 contracts to a tenth of length
 C Clamps
 How much of the writing is necessary?
 Needs and image on C clamps
 Headings and sub headings etc. are like stop signs. Even when you pull them out, the text still has to make sense.
 Give an overview of the steps to make the rope.
 setup process
strand process
 be sure the hooks are facing the direction in which you are to make rope.
 Readers only read a few sentences, then feel they have read enough
 take the loose end of the twine and attachit.
 Editing checklist step search down throught he whole document
subject of the sentence, You is implied, the command form imperative form attach the end is the core sentence with you impliedYou will never see a novel written in Arial more space consoming not for extend large blcks of text, easier to read a serif face using very short blocks of text this particular text displays larger
 take some random words and put them in garmond, no perpetua
 Leading from descender to descender
Point size.
 Expressed intypography as a fraction
 why does this text look somuch smaller if they are going t be the same size tex
 leading the same, point size also the same
 maximum . hieght of the .etters is the same
 x height of these tow type faces is very different
 a serif typeface, their risers are big and their counters are small
 sans serif type has larger risers
 typeface on road signs are in sans serif face
 Headings would normally be sans serif
 text body serif typeface, in technical documents body text in sans serif typeface
 if there is a marketing component use a sans serif typeface
 Print the document out even if emailing because the flaws will come out in the printing. Do a test print.
 Use asymmetric line
 updated the style put headings in sans serif
 bod face and using the
 Much of good document design is subtracting noise
 Subgroup the stepsReduce really long step lists
step commentary(could put in parentheses)
Needs an image demonstrating perpendicular vertically and horizontallyOverhand knot, define with an image
 comma splice difference between Adverbial conjunction big compund word sorts of things, take the comma
 Test for adverbial conjunction, move the words around and see if they still work
 Conjunction needs to be accompanied by a comma.
 take out so it is horizontally, its an adverb
 more images
 form follows function
 Two rhetorical modes we use Class is called technical communication
 visual rhetoric and textual rhetoric
 depending on the task yo are undertaking it might be very intensive
 app for cpr on the cell phone with almost zero wrods with conceptual images to show how to do cpr
 very good documentation
 fomr foolws funcction you want to communicate with oyour audience as quickly as possible to get your point across so the reader isn't lost
 where does text start
 lascaux cave paintings the reason they still exist is because a landslide buried those caves for a few thousand years
 forgotten language
 written language started from pictographics
 Knji has somewhat Congol hung onto the pictographic language
from syllabary we dropped to an alphabet
 differentiating between text and visual rhetoric, but they had the same starting point get into teams pick up the discussion next time
Read Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon Chapter 1.  Notice format, technical details, rhetoric, flow.

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