{"id":29937,"date":"2023-08-15T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/your-experience-with-technical-writing-an-interview-about-personas-in-technical-writing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:57:29","slug":"your-experience-with-technical-writing-an-interview-about-personas-in-technical-writing","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/your-experience-with-technical-writing-an-interview-about-personas-in-technical-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Experience with Technical Writing & An interview about personas in technical writing"},"content":{"rendered":"
 t<\/span>he first set of resources available to you is title <\/span><\/span>What is Technical Writing?  <\/span><\/strong>Included in that list of resources is a link to the Society for Technical Communications (STC) and access to chapter 1 of a textbook, <\/span><\/span>Technical Writing for Business People<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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    1. The following link from the Society for Technical Communications (STC): <\/a>Defining Technical Communication https:\/\/www.stc.org\/about-stc\/defining-technical-communication\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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      1. What writing have you done at work or in your community that you think could be labelled <\/span>technical writing<\/em>?  Why do you think it can be labelled <\/span>technical writing<\/em>?  Please describe the writing situation and <\/span>draw upon the information in either the website from STC or chapter 1<\/strong> <\/span>of the textbook to illustrate why it would be technical writing.<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Do technical writing tasks have to involve technical subjects? Why or why not?<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. How is technical writing different from writing an essay?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        This discussion topic is designed to help you become familiar with what a persona is and what its role is in technical writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

        Please access the following url and listen to the podcast, “Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto on User Personas and Intercultural Communication.”<\/span><\/p>\n

        10-Minute Tech Comm – Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto on User Personas and Intercultural Communication<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

        https:\/\/tenminutetechcomm.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/dr-kirk-st-amant-and-dr-guiseppe-getto-and-user-personas-and-intercultural-communication\/
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        Please answer the following questions. Your answers can be a couple of sentences or so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. What is a persona? What do personas represent?<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. How does a writer make a persona that is accurate, useful, and representative and that does not simply stereotype a population? <\/span><\/li>\n
        3. What is the difference between <\/span>audience<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>persona<\/em>?<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. Why is <\/span>user behavior<\/em> <\/span>important for personas?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

           the first set of resources available to you is title What is Technical Writing?  Included in that list of resources is a link to the Society for Technical Communications (STC) and access to chapter 1 of a textbook, Technical Writing for Business People.   http:\/\/ezproxy.umgc.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/library.books24x7.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu\/library.asp?^B&bookID=149074 The following link from the Society for Technical Communications (STC): Defining Technical Communication https:\/\/www.stc.org\/about-stc\/defining-technical-communication\/ What writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[718],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}