Madelyn's English 308 Blog

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1.      To me, technical communication means communicating with technology such as: social media and web sites. It makes it easier to connect with the world and even people close to you. 2.      Technical communication as storytelling allows people to paint a picture while keeping their audience well informed throughout the story. I think that sitting in on a presentation with someone using storytelling would be the best. 3.      Storytelling allows us to tell a concise story about a situation where we can form a situation with examples told as a story. Storytelling may be complicated but it helps by keeping the audience’s attention because that is the most important thing we need in a presentation 4.      When I look at this map of words, the word that jumps at me is collaborate. I think that collaborating is a very important thing that we all need to learn how to do. Collaborating is helpful ...

            While looking for a sign, I realized that I passed a ton of times before but have never noticed the sign that I chose. It was put up for this semester—a class was searching for adventurers to travel back in time to 1520 in Europe. The professor wanted people for their European War of Religions or HIST 414.             As I pondered at the sign for quite a long while, reading through its content. That’s when it hit me, why should I have to look at a sign for this long? When I want to join something, I don’t want to have to look at a sign for a long period of time and read through a whole paragraph to realize what it’s about. I think that is where this professor went wrong because they write this whole paragraph, expecting many people to read it, but in all reality I know that people are going to look past this poster. Students are not going to want to sit and rea...