Presented for the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates)
Summer Program at the University of Texas at Dallas
PI: Professor W. Eric Wong
Department of Computer Science
Special Acknowledgment: The Writing Center, Office of Student Success and Assessment
Part I
- Introduction
- What is Technical Communication
- Argument part 1
- Models
- Argument part 2
- Heuristics
- Rhetoric
Part II
- Types of Technical Communication
- Technical Communication Models
- DITA: a Model for Content Reuse
- Heuristics for Better Writing
- Standards for Usability Accessibility and Reusability
- Writing is Difficult
- Enforced Standards and Automated Content
- Corporate Customer and Competing Standards
- Implicit and Explicit Standards
- Docbook SGML and XML
- Standards Organizations
- Standards in Domains Military Regulatory and Industry
- Standards for Style format and Writing
- Ethos and Bias
- Process Plan Write and Iterate
- How do I know when I am done
- Waterfall and Agile Project Management
- Example Analysis of a Blog Post
- For More Information
- Closing Thoughts