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COM 340 Entire Course (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   What Is Technical
Communication? What is the difference between
technical communication and technical writing?
After completing your reading
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COM 340 Entire Course   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   COM 340 Week 1 Individual
Assignment Mass Media Worksheet COM 340 Week 1 DQ
1 COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 COM 340 Week 1 DQ 3
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 What Is Technical
Communication (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   What Is Technical
Communication? What is the difference between
technical communication and technical writing?
After completing your reading
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Have media had an impact
in your life? In what way or ways? In answering
this question, consider all of the media you use,
including print media, broadcast media, digital
media, and entertainment media.  
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2 The Value of Technical
Communication (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   The Value of Technical
Communication. Why do we need technical
communication? What purpose does it serve?
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COM 340 Week 1 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Media conglomerates are
getting bigger and bigger, with more and more
media companies concentrating into fewer hands.
Do you think this is a positive or negative
trend? Why?
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  COM 340 Week 1 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   In what ways does mass
communication differ from interpersonal
communication? How is this distinction likely to
change in the future and why
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COM 340 Week 1 Evaluation of a Health-Related
Website (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Evaluation of a
Health-Related Website. In July 1999, The
American Telemedicine Association (A.T.A.) issued
the following advice to consumers who use the
Internet for health-related information and
services. A.T.A.s criteria for a quality site
include the following (Advisories 23)
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COM 340 Week 1 Individual Assignment Mass Media
Worksheet FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   I Complete the University
Material Mass Media Worksheet located in Week
One of the com340outlet Course Materials.
Instructions and details of the assignment are
included.
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COM 340 Week 2 Assignment Print Media Comparison
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ead and cite two news articles (NOT editorial or
op-ed columns) found in the University Library on
the same current event issue. One article should
come from an American newspaper
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Expert Opinion and Critical
Thinking in Research (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   Expert Opinion and
Critical Thinking in Research. Review the
information in Chapter Six of Technical
Communication about expert opinion. Select a
topic from science or technology on which experts
might disagree (e.g., possible health hazards of
cell phones, global warming/global climate
change, or the value of vitamin supplements.)
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   What events toward the
end of the 19th century enabled general interest
magazines to become mass circulation magazines?
Next, explain why the impact of images is such
major controversy in the magazine industry today.
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Assignments (New)  
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earch Assignments. Discuss what aspects of
conducting research are the easiest and the most
difficult for you and why you find these areas
easy and difficult. Include at least one ethical
issue from your reading of Chapter Five of
Technical Communication (assigned in Week One) as
one of aspects.
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COM 340 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   What are the major
changes in form that books have taken through
time? Currently, E-books are proving to be the
wave of the future. What is your opinion of them
and personal preference?  
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COM 340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion FOR
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340 Week 2 LT Assignment Web Excursion  
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Defining Terms (New) FOR
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g Terms. Explain the importance and purpose of
technical definitions. Select a term you know the
meaning of but others may not. Using the
guidelines presented in Chapter Eighteen of the
text
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   How reliable is anecdotal
evidence that movie violence causes violence in
real life?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Proposals (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   Proposals.
What is the primary purpose of a proposal, and
why must a proposal be persuasive?
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  COM 340 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Many early television
programs came over directly from radio. As these
programs became visual, how would the family
viewing experience differ? What kind of effects
might this have had on family life?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Commercial radio became
the norm in the United States, whereas many other
countries adopted a government-owned model used
for education, entertainment and culture. How
would America be different today if the U.S.
government owned and operated radio?
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COM 340 Week 3 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Should the Internet be
regulated? If you were in charge, how would you
regulate it?
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COM 340 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sex and
Violence Paper FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Write a 1,200- to
1,500-word paper analyzing the influence on young
people under the age of 18 of sex and violence
portrayed in movies, television
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COM 340 Week 3 Instruction Effective Use of an
Online Library Database (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com340outlet.com   Instruction
Effective Use of an Online Library Database.
Using the information you have learned from
Chapter Twenty of the text Technical Communication
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COM 340 Week 3 LT Assignment Team Paper Outline
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Assignment Team Paper Outline and References  
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COM 340 Week 3 Planning Proposal Outline (New)
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nning Proposal Outline. Submit a formal outline
for your research proposal that is due in Week
Five. Your outline must include a descriptive
title of the topic you
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Using Visual Images (New)
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ng Visual Images. Search the Internet and find
examples of each of the following a. A graph b.
A chart
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COM 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Effective Page Design (New)
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ffective Page Design. Find an example of
effective page design and an ineffective page
design in a magazine or on the Web. In your post,
describe each page
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COM 340 Week 4 Process Mechanism Description
(New)   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.com340outlet.com   Process/Mechanism
Description. Select a simple process you
routinely perform or a common household or office
object as the topic for your process/mechanism
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COM 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Course Summary (New) FOR
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Summary. Over the past five weeks, we have
covered many subjects related to technical
writing. If someone asked you to prepare
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COM 340 Week 5 Final Paper (New)   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com340outlet.com   Focus of
the Final Paper This paper should be an objective
evaluation of a situation or a problem you or
someone you know has
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