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The workshop that I am going to discuss is the creation of the clustermaps. Our team created clustermaps to identify key ideas for our PSA and to isolate concepts that we wanted to address in it. One of my biggest concerns that we addressed while meeting was the communication methods that we plan on usingContinue reading “Prompt 7”

This week, I created a presentation using Canva. This is an online site used for creating infographics. I created one for the Automotive Engineering career field. https://sdk.canva.com/v1/embed.js Automotive Engineering by August Murray The reflection: From the list of possible websites, I used Canva. I chose this one because I had heard about it from myContinue reading “Prompt 6”

This week, I reached out to NHPR asking them to share my PSA. Below is the cover letter. NHPR2 Pillsbury St6th FloorConcord, NH 03301 To the producers of NHPR, My name is August Murray and I am reaching out regarding an opportunity to broadcast my PSA on your station. I am a member of MRW,Continue reading “Prompt 5”

For this blog post, I searched for an automotive photographer position at nearby car dealerships. I chose to research this job position because it’s something that I am interested in doing as a summer job. The company primarily serves its customers. In this case, the customers are people looking for cars to purchase. Since theyContinue reading “Prompt 4”

This week during class, I received feedback from my fellow classmates about my instruction manual and information report. One of the biggest things I took away from those workshops was to be more specific and increase the simplicity of my instruction manual. I realized that there should be little to no assumptions made for anContinue reading “Prompt 3”

FLOSS Manuals is a free website that contains instructional manuals on how to use free software. Free software usually doesn’t come with as detailed of documentation because it’s usually open-source and the developers are not technical writers. The audience in this case are people that don’t know how to use free software. Based on theContinue reading “Prompt 2”

I’m exploring the differences between the following four terms: – Technical writer– Professional writer– Technical communicator– Professional communicator In order to generate a table comparing these four job titles, I researched each position on job search sites like Indeed.com and Monster.com. These sites are helpful tools to find the typical requirements for a position asContinue reading “Prompt 1”