Writing Homework Help

Write a well-researched essay of approximately 12 pages (approximately 3500 -4000 words) that examines closely one issue in technical communication or within a set of communication technologies and its implications for contemporary or historical users and its profession.

You must include a Works Cited of at least ten credible (expert and recent) primary or secondary sources, two of which may be drawn from our syllabus.

Keep your focus on one historical or contemporary issue in technical communications. You should probably limit your analysis to a particular period of time (a decade, for example), and you could even narrow it to a close reading of single primary text, with critical support from expert secondary material

The Topic Is

• The Telephone & communication conventions –past or present how it evolved

In your examination of any of the above or similar topics, you should explore the implications of one or more philosophical/critical approaches reflected such as

Collaboration and the social construction of meaning/ knowledge

Gender issues

History/Rhetoric of Science

Ethical, Legal, and Power Issues (economics)

Genre & Document Design Conventions

Research Methods

Usability / Online Environments

Visual Theory and Practice (interface design, video communication)