The following projects taught me to always ask questions and to look for the answers yourself. Both of the projects listed on this page allowed me to explore my curiosities and draw my own conclusions based on my findings. They taught me to keep the audience in mind at all times. For both projects the audience was new graduate students, the purpose was to show these new students what these particular forms had to offer and what research could look like in the program. I am most proud of the Technical Communication, Technical Writing, and AI: Discovering a Network Sense presentation because I was given the freedom to explore different kinds of data sets and write down my own interpretations. My biggest takeaway from these projects is that we never stop learning or asking questions.
Technical Communication, Technical Writing, and AI: Discovering a Network Sense
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The Technical Communication, Technical Writing, and AI: Discovering a Network Sense PowerPoint presentation was written for ENC 5920 Colloquium in Rhetoric and Composition. In this course, I was introduced to the field of Rhetoric and Composition and the subfields that reside within Rhetoric and Composition. As a class, we were introduced to the many Rhetoric and Composition and industry forums in which people could participate, like conferences, journals, and podcasts. For this major assignment, I was tasked with choosing two forums that I was interested in participating in and looking for an answer to a question I had after researching those forums. I chose the IEEE Pro Comm Conference an industry forum and the ATTW Conference an academic forum, I was curious how AI presented itself within these two forums and if it was discussed. I assumed that the industry would discuss it more than academia but I was surprised by what I found. This is a multimodal PowerPoint presentation that includes word clouds, word stream timelines, and hierarchical radial models, to show my research and my interpretations of that research.
A Comparative Analysis of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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The PowerPoint presentation A Comparative Analysis of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication was written for ENC 5920 Colloquium in Rhetoric and Composition. This assignment was the first for this course and it was created to introduce students to the field of Rhetoric and Composition, its subfields, and the neighboring fields. For this assignment, I was tasked with comparing two forums either conferences, journals, or podcasts to see what their differences were and how to get involved. I chose two journals the JTWC (Journal of Technical Writing and Communication) and the JBTC (Journal of Business and Technical Communication). I found that both are similar in the genres they publish but their topics though similar take slightly different approaches.