CLL 405 Class Minutes February 25, 2010
Author: Ryan Reed Class start: 9:30 AM
February 25, 2010 Class end: 10:50 AM
Participants: Casey Galletto, Stacy Furgal, Amanda Furcall, Timothy Cumberbatch, Brittany Meeks, Jessica Zeller, Danielle Zeller, Megan Spindler, Alex Mottern, Leanna Mulvihill, Amanda Fischedick, Lynnette Bruce, Nathan Reynolds, Rob Greer, Josh Menard, Aaron Day, Jon Willow.
• Don handed out Girl Scout cookies!
• Old minutes were read and ratified. Kudos were given to Danielle Zeller.
• Right after minutes are read Don will hand back any old assignments.
• Went over reading assignment on technical descriptions.
• Take object in technical description and break it into its parts. Describe each part to allow the reader to gain a better understanding.
• Organize technical description into major level headings.
• Don told us about a text book he had read from the library that had only the first chapter read and highlighted. The second chapter had poor one sentence descriptions and was confusing. This was a failure of the text.
• Be aware or your audience when writing a technical description.
• We discussed different functions of a pencil to show how giving the function of the object in a technical description is important. We also discussed the function of each part of the pencil. For example a pencil eraser can be used to erase stuff but also can be used to prop a window open or scratch an ear.
• Give enough detail in description to allow somebody to draw it. Including pictures in description.
• Order in technical description is very important.
• Broke up into 5 groups and were given tape and slips of paper with different sentences describing an Adidas shoes.
• Had to determine the order of the sentences.
• Compared each group’s way of organizing information.
• Discussed the importance of following steps in a process.
• There is not just one way to organize information but the way you choose must be logical. Start with most important first and then follow in order of decreasing importance.
• If this is not done really bad things can happen. (Nuclear disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl for example).
• Assignment: Write a Technical description about 1-2 pages of a process related to your discipline.
• Word of the Day: Proleptics – the art and science of predicting medicine.
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