Notes 27 Aug 2012

27 Aug 2012
Notes, 1st class

Class Information
Syllabus will be posted on Canvas. Came from the corporate world not a professional teacher. Learned the ropes by doing. Experience is the best teacher. Office in the main hallway of the LA building, LA 117a  . Reason to take this class—to open doors in the world Cell phones—turn them off Don’t leave class unless its an emergency/extenuating circumstance
Textbook We will choose a book and discuss its technical writing details Compare concrete text version vs. online version ISBN—09700973-1-x--paperback FAA was formed due to a crash between two airliners over the Grand Canyon	Books we voted on: Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book The design of everyday things Diffusion of innovations Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscription Amazon.com Widgets
The ability to write is essential to progress in your careers. The reason we write is to extend our brains so we can solve /sort out our problems. The analytical skills we learn in writing are the skills we use in thinking. Academic studies are intended to make better thinkers who make a difference in the world.
Discussion on First writing assignment: Resume' Say what you need to say and do it concisely in as few words as necessary to get the job done. Resumes are short and highly structured. They are a technical description of you.	Really Ugly Résumés from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee
Research Paper Assignment Write a series of solution papers for rebuilding civilization from a plane crash in a valley with everything you need as far as raw materials go. Daedalus Project.Survival and escape book.Think about some real world projects you would like to work on and bring them to class. Writing is about story. We are driven in our nature to forge communities The research paper will be a 60 page document collaborative document, 10,000 words of writing per team member. Keep it brief. Size. Graphic intensive, graphics take more time to create than text. If the document is short on size, it will be short on detail. Remission of execution.Stay up on the reading assignments, watch the due dates.	Assignment Read about Gestalt. What are its... Sets of rules or grammars. Gestalt used as our First assignment is a resume assignment. From 4310 Company/organization work at HR business guide for a company. Monday there is no school.
Buy these books Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscription

Discussion on Metaphor Power horse tractor—no steering wheel—metaphor is essential always broken into two parts, use metaphor to expand our known world into a larger world Control interface, controlled with reins. Word processor –typewriter—allows us to use object oriented design to manage the writing process more efficiently.
Technical Discussion on using Styles in Word: Print layout view if I go over to draft view if I go toward preferences go to the orb on a windows machine go to options advanced settings style area width set greater than zero Find the way to show the formatting. The names of the paragraphs. Plain text, body text,bull/it subhead spelled bullit -- Why is it spelled that way?	Using Styles in Word 2010

Technical Writing