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In your career you will undoubtedly be required to create or contribute to documentation for multiple audiences, which can include external and internal consumers. Writing may not be your strong suit, but it is a necessity to become an effective professional. The below material is short and succinct. It is anticipated to be about one hour worth of reading, and 15-30 minutes of answering the below questions. As this assignment is worth 2% bonus credit on your final grade, please actually read the material, and take some time to reflect on it.
Technical writing includes being able to effectively communicate your thoughts in code, in comments for other developers, clients, and users.
https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one (Links to an external site.)
As you read the material, consider how you may utilize this knowledge to improve your own writing quality for business, technical, and personal pursuits.
1) In your own words, what is the objective of technical writing, and why may it be useful in the context of a business application programming course? How might it benefit a business or a clients’ users? Anticipated responses would be about 2-3 moderate sized paragraphs.
2) How might documentation you write for your own development team (system documentation) differ from the documentation you produce for end users (how to use/operate the system)? Anticipated responses would be about 2-3 moderate sized paragraphs, and address the differences in audiences for documentation.
3) In relation to the material and topics in this assignment, reflect on your own writing experience and capabilities, and consider “what is an area of my own writing, in a technical writing / documentation sense, that can be improved, and what topic from the material can help me accomplish this? Anticipated responses would objectively assess the student’s own writing capabilities, identify an area that can be improved, and suggest how they can improve. A length of 1-4 paragraphs would be appropriate.
