Tuesday, December 12, 2006
My advice to future students in this class would be to not worry at first when you hear about all of the projects. It seems a daunting task, but there is plenty of time to do all of the research and plan out your goals, and if you pace yourself you will be fine. The freedom that this class allows is a very cool aspect of the class that not many others have, and as long as you don’t forget to do the blogs every week, this class will be one of your least stressful, and most rewarding ones you will have.
Over the course of this semester, I have learned a lot about what technical writing is and how to conduct research and plan out a project dealing with technical writing. I feel I have strengthened my writings skills in many ways, and have learned new, valuable tools such as writing a memo, creating an up to date resume, and learning how to reach goals as you do a writing project and yet still be able to change things on the fly when new information comes to light. I feel that this class has helped me tremendously in becoming a much better overall writer.