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EGR386W: Midterm Survey

Technical Communication Student Outcomes (20 points)

***By taking this survey you agree that the work you’ve submitted is your own and that it may be anonymously used for assessment within the D4P program***

Directions: First, please sign in to you’re my.nau.edu account and go to the following link to take the survey using your NAU email.

Survey link: http://goo.gl/forms/10KCqc4S1u

Then: Carefully read the Technical Communication Student Outcomes infographic. After reading the TCSO, answer the following questions. Note: remember to use your most professional writing (writing free of vagueness, colloquialisms, hyperbole, and redundancy). Please upload your reflective writing to BBlearn as an attachment once you’ve completed both surveys.

1. Successful Communication: Why is a careful and accurate analysis of context, audience and purpose so critical to successful technical communication? In what ways might technical communication change, based on context, audience or purpose? Throughout the Design4Practice program, to what audience have you addressed your work (list examples)? How might your audience change in EGR386W?

2. Clear, Concise, and Comprehensive Communication: An aspect of technical communication that is often challenging is the balance of clear, concise, and comprehensive. Why might this balance be difficult to master in technical communication? Have you struggled with this balance before? If so, when?

3. Focused, Organized, and Ethical Communication: Describe the importance of ethical communication, particularly in EGR386W. What are some ways in which communication could be unethical, and why might this be concerning to engineers?

4. Engineering Communication Conventions: Lastly, what aspects of English language mechanics have you most struggled with in the past (grammar, punctuation, spelling)? What about the six aspects of technical communication (clear, concise, comprehensive, focused, organized, and ethical)? How do you hope to improve on this throughout the EGR386W semester?

Memo Requirements:

· Write no more than two single-spaced pages using 12-pt font

· Answer each prompt question thoroughly and honestly

· Upload your reflective writing as a .doc / .docx attachment to BBlearn

Memorandum:

To: Nathan Bollig, GTA

From: _____________________

CC: David Willy, Instructor

Due Date: March 11 (by 11:59pm on BbLearn)

RE: Technical Communication Student Outcomes