TECHNICAL WRITING
The majority of the technical writing I have done has been schoolwork for my Professional Writing major. It has been an extremely rewarding experience because I've been able to gain skills working with so many different types of writing.
Library Work
While working at the Appalachian State University Belk Library, I designed and input training questions for the library's online training program This experience definitely helped me enhance my creativity skills; I came up with well over a hundred questions, and about 4 to 5 answers for each question. Unfortunately, only certain people have access to the Library's AsULearn website, where the quizzes I designed are, so I'm only able to include this picture here.
Schoolwork
This is a memo that I created in my Introduction to Professional Writing class in Fall of 2018. We were instructed to pretend we were CEOs at IBM and draft a memo addressing the company's new hires and discussing various important sections of the attached employee manual. Creating this technical document helped me develop my language skills; as the "CEO" of a company, I felt I was expected to use elevated language. However, I still had to keep my audience in mind, and be sure to define any terms that the new hires might not have understood.
This is a newsletter that I wrote for my Editing class in Spring of 2020. The original prompt was to create a newsletter describing an editing process, so, naturally, I chose comics. What was most intriguing about this project was the research I put into it: the field of comics editing is very niche and difficult to find information about. This project also helped me gain more experience creating visual documents in Canva.
This was another document that I created for Introduction to Professional Writing; an audience analysis. For this document, I wrote from the position of the CEO of Hasbro about how to write to different audiences about the same topic; in this case, Transformers. In creating this document, I improved my research skills as well as my public speaking abilities.
This was an occupational analysis that I also created for Introduction to Professional Writing. In essence, this was a rather long report about the current state of bookstores in Boone, North Carolina and the resulting recommendations about opening a bookstore there. While drafting this piece, I gained experience with field research; I actually went out and collected the data for this report myself. I also had to constantly remind myself to keep my own opinion out of it, and just stick to the facts.