Introduction to Technical Communication

Hello everyone,

My name is Yagmur and welcome to my blog. I'm taking a "Writing for Engineers" class which requires me to create a technical communication blog as a final assignment. In this class, we use Markel's Technical Communication book. Markel is a great source to understand technical communication. What is a technical communication? It means to communicate about technical topics such as a computer engineer talking about coding by using specific terms in his field. As we all know, most of the engineers work with different group of people to solve problems or design new products. This is where the technical communication comes into play in an engineer's life. It is very important to gain these communication skills in order to be successful at working with people.  

On my blog, I will be posting some of the assignments that we had from Writing for Engineers class. 

Enjoy.

Analytical Assessment

       On Tuesday 4/11, when I checked my blog’s statistics, it was reviewed by two people. My most viewed post for that day was the self-assessment. On Wednesday 4/12, my blog’s visitors were 7. I was really surprised with the increase in the number, but then I realized that probably most of these visitors were from the Writing for Engineers class since I posted my blog’s URL on Blackboard. For that day, five people reviewed my Introduction post, two reviewed Self-Assessment. On Saturday 4/16 when I checked by blog’s statistics, I had 3 new pageviews since Wednesday. Two of these viewed my Introduction post and one reviewed Complaint Letter that I posted. On Sunday 4/17, my pageviews were 5. I was surprised with the sudden increase in the number because there is only one-day difference. Three of these viewed my Introduction post, one viewed Self-Assessment and one viewed Fracking. If I look at a weekly statistics of the pageviews by the browsers from April 11-April 18, 91% (22 people) of these viewers accessed by blog trough Google Chrome, 4% Mozilla Firefox and 1% through Safari. Likewise looking at the statistics of the pageviews by the operating systems, 66% of the viewers used Windows, 16% used Linux, 2% used Macintosh, 8% used Unix. These statistics also show that Google Chrome is the most popular browser and Windows is the most used operating system. In addition, my most viewed posts are Introduction and Self-Assessment so far. I think this shows that usually the first thing people check on a blog is the introduction. 

Business Correspondence

Mr. David Geffen

CEO of MAC Cosmetics

Topeka, KS 1666

I am Ashley Moore, CEO of Urban Decay cosmetics. I heard that your company is looking for a partnership; therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce my company. We are Urban Decay, a private makeup company in the United States. We provide makeup products for face coverage as well as eyeshadows and lipstick. We had several partnerships experience with Makeup Forever, Dior and Colorpop for a new eyeshadow palette and a lipstick line.

Your company, MAC, is well known for eyeshadows. We believe that such eyeshadows have a very good potential to interest both MAC and Urban Decay costumers. For this reason, we would like to extend our interest in forming a partnership with your company for an eyeshadow line. We believe that Urban Decay eyeshadows can well match with MAC eyeshadows in order to improve total customer satisfaction on eyeshadows.

If you would like, I can send our company’s profile or you may check our website at urbandecay.com. If you are interested in such partnership, please feel free to send an email at ashleymoor@ud.com.

Best regards,

Ashley Moore

CEO of Urban Decay

Visuals About 80's Drug Use Among Rock Musicians

Description: Above graph shows the most popular drugs that led to rock musicians’ death in the 80’s. 

Description: Pie chart shows the countries that rock musicians had frequently found that in the 1980’s. This also illustrates that drug use among rock musicians was the most common in England and USA.

Work Cited: "List of Pop Musicians Who Died of Drug Overdose." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 01 May 2016.

The videos below are about John Bonham from Led Zeppelin and Bon Scott from AC/DC. Both of these famous musicians died from an alcohol overdose in 1980. 

Designing a Chair for College Students

Have you ever taught of having a combo desk that has a comfortable chair as well as a plastic pocket for food? Then, you are at the right place!

A combo desk, a combination of a desk and a chair, allows you to save both money and space in a college classroom. In addition, these are a best seller due to their durability. Combo desks have specifically been designed for college students. The desk provides a big and a comfortable space for students to study. A textbook rack is under the chair so that the students can place their textbooks or bags. Plastic pocket allows students to put their food or drinks in so they do not have to take them out of their bags during the lecture. The padded leather is one of the most important things in a chair. It helps student’s spine to be in a comfortable position while paying attention to the professor.

Features:                                                                                          Specifications:

- Adjustable seat height                                                                      Color: Black

- Armrest                                                                         Width x Depth x Height: 25 x 35 x 33 in

- Desk combined with a chair                                                            Weight: 37 lbs

- Textbook rack under the chair                                                         Desktop Material: Plastic

- A plastic pocket attached to the side of the desk                             Weight Capacity: 350 lb             

 -Padded leather                                                                                  Bookrack: Yes

Handling: Left and Right Handed

Exterior Seat Material: Plastic, Padded Leather 

Interview Questions for Leonardo DiCaprio

1) What did you feel when they announced your name at the Oscars saying that you got the award?

2) What does winning an Oscar mean to you?

3) What were the difficulties that you had when you were playing in the Revenant?

4) Why did you choose to play “Hugh Glass” in the Revenant?

5) Since you spent a lot of time in cold Canada and Argentina, were there times that you asked, “Why am I doing this?” when you were shooting the Revenant?

6) In one of the scenes of the Revenant Hugh, your character ate a raw liver. Did you really have to eat it raw?

7) Why do you think that the Revenant got more recognition than the Great Gatsby?

8) What are your plans for the next film?

9) Is there a particular actor/actress would you want to have a movie with? Why if there is any?

10) If they made a movie about your life story, would you rather Johnny Depp to play “you” or Samuel Jackson to play you in the movie? What is the reason that you chose either one?

  

Fracking

           Fracking, also known as "hydro fracking" is a process of extracting natural gas. In order to succeed in this, first, a drilling location has to be established. Once this location is chosen, you would have to drill a well vertically to the ground and then turn it ninety degrees horizontally for several thousand feet into the place that is believed to contain the natural gas. 

         After completing the step one, the chosen area has to go through the process of perfing and fracking. A perforating gun has to be lowered by a wire into the casing. An electrical current is sent to set off a charge that creates small holes through the casing and cement. Once this step is over, the perf gun gets pulled out of the hole. Next, the well has to be fracked. A mix of water, sand, and chemicals get pumped into the well at high pressure to create pressure in the shale to fracture. This will allow the released gas to flow to the wellbore and then to the surface where it gets processed and refined. Flowback, which known as the wastewater, goes back to the surface completing the fracking process.

Description:  Above graph shows the U.S. states that allow fracking. In addition, on the y-axis, the graph illustrates the role of fracking in global warming pollution (metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent). According to the graph, well completion from 2005 to 2012 is 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. 

Work Cited

"Appalachia By The Numbers." Appalachian Journal 38.2/3 (2011): 334. Web.

Description: Illustration above shows the process of fracking. 

Legend: Map above shows the states that allow fracking, states may allow fracking and a state that banned fracking.