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COM 130 Course Seek Your Dream / snaptutorial.com
COM 130 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com COM 130 Week 1 DQ 1
and DQ 2 COM 130 Week 1 Checkpoint Legal
Considerations COM 130 Week 2 Assignment Writing
for an Audience COM 130 Week 2 CheckPoint
Collaborative and Individual Writing
Processes COM 130 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2 COM 130
Week 4 Assignment Creating Surveys COM 130 Week 4
CheckPoint Using the Library to Research COM 130
Week 5 CheckPoint APA Guidelines
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COM 130 Week 1 Checkpoint Legal
Considerations For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com Find a professional
technical document, such as an instruction manual
or a product tag. Argue whether or not the writer
and company included legal considerations when
writing. For example, does the document appear to
respect copyright law? Why or why not? Did the
company break trademark, contract, or liability
law? How? Think as though you are a lawyer and
examine every potential legal part of the
document. If you believe changes should be made
to the document, include your suggestions.
Summarize your opinion in 200 to 300 words.
Post your summary as an attachment.
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COM 130 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com Discussion Question
1 Post your response to the following Describe
the skills of a successful technical
writer. Provide at least three examples and
explain their importance to the technical
writing process. If you were a technical writer,
which skills would you consider most vital to
your position and why?
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COM 130 Week 2 Assignment Writing for an
Audience For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om Assignment Writing for an Audience
Resource Ch. 2 of Professional and Technical
Writing Strategies Due Date Day 7 Individual
forum Imagine you have been asked to
communicate to several clients regarding a delay
in the production of widgets your company
produces. Your clients are both local
and international. They have diverse backgrounds,
technical experience, and understanding.
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COM 130 Week 2 CheckPoint Collaborative and
Individual Writing Processes For more classes
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Collaborative and Individual Writing Processes
Due Date Day 4 Individual forum Identify and
explain at least three advantages and three
disadvantages of the collaborative writing
process in 200 to 300 words. In what situations
might an individual writing process be
preferable? Post your summary as an attachment.
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COM 130 Week 4 Assignment Creating Surveys For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Assignment
Creating Surveys Resources Appendix B and
Ch. 5 of Professional and Technical Writing
Strategies Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
Follow the instructions below to create and
utilize a survey 1. Using a Microsoft Word
document, create a short survey based on a topic
related to careers in general, careers in IT, or
another occupational topic. (See Appendix B
for further instruction and for examples.) 2.
Include a disclaimer in your survey that
indicates the project is for school, no name is
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COM 130 Week 4 CheckPoint Using the Library to
Research For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om CheckPoint Using the Library to Research
Resources Appendix A and Ch. 5 of Professional
and Technical Writing Strategies Due Date Day
4 Individual forum Conduct a search on your
IT career choice to write about for your final
project using the University Library. Select
one periodical article to review (either a
newspaper or magazine). Summarize the article
in your own words. Be sure to acknowledge all
necessary information pertaining to where you
located the article (such as the articles
author, title,
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COM 130 Week 5 CheckPoint APA Guidelines For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com CheckPoint
APA Guidelines Resources Appendix C and Ch. 2
of the Writing Style Handbook Due Date Day 5
Individual forum Open Appendix C and save it
to your computer. Using APA guidelines, put
the information into proper format. Post the
corrected document as an attachment.
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COM 130 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com Discussion Question 1
Post your response to the following questions
Why is documentation important in the technical
writing process? What positive and negative
occurrences have you run into while using
different documentation styles?
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COM 130 Week 6 Assignment Writing
Instructions For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com Assignment Writing Instructions Understand
ing your audience and being clear and concise
when writing instructions is crucial to the
receiver's ability to successfully follow the
instructions. When the writer does have not a
clear vision of the intended audience, he or she
should design the instructions for the most basic
reader. Resources Appendix D and Ch. 7, 9,
10 of Professional and Technical
Writing Strategies Due Date Day 7 Individual
forum Create a set of instructions explaining
how to save a Microsoft Word document on a
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COM 130 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com Discussion Question 1
Post your response to the following o
Describe a scenario in which you were asked to
provide a report. Include a description of the
intended receiver of the report. Describe the
different types of reports you could have used,
and why the report you chose was most appropriate
for this audience.
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COM 130 Week 8 Assignment The Rough Draft For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Assignment
The Rough Draft Resource Appendix A Due
Date Day 7 Individual forum Prepare a rough
draft of your final project. Organize the draft
so it flows and makes sense. At this point, your
draft should be 80 complete and include properly
cited references that follow APA guidelines.
Post the rough draft as an attachment.
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COM 130 Week 8 CheckPoint Journals and Scientific
Documents For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com CheckPoint Journals and Scientific
Documents Resources Appendix A and Ch. 17 of
Professional and Technical Writing Strategies
Due Date Day 4 Individual forum Write three
separate paragraphs on the following 1. Discuss
the purpose of journals and professional
papers. 2. Discuss the organization of a
technical scientific paper. 3. Use the University
Library to find a scholarly journal article
related to your final project. Read and write a
brief
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COM 130 Week 9 Capstone Discussion Question For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Capstone
Discussion Question Due Date Day 3 Main
forum Post your response to the following How
will what you have learned in this class
help with your future IT classes and your future
as an IT professional? Provide specific examples
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COM 130 Week 9 Final Project Your Career as an IT
Professional For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com Final Project Your Career as an IT
Professional Resources Appendix A and Ch. 1 -
7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 19 of Professional
and Technical Writing Strategies Due Date Day
7 Individual forum Write a 1,750- to
2,100-word research project detailing one of the
following career choices o Web developer or
administrator o Project manager
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COM 130 Course Seek Your Dream / snaptutorial.com
COM 130 Week 9 Final Project Your Career as an IT
Professional For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com Final Project Your Career as an IT
Professional Resources Appendix A and Ch. 1 -
7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 19 of Professional
and Technical Writing Strategies Due Date Day
7 Individual forum Write a 1,750- to
2,100-word research project detailing one of the
following career choices o Web developer or
administrator o Project manager
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it.....To Best way....
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