Final Blog

This was one of the best classes that I have taken because the material that me go through highly relevent to almost any workplace. The memos to the emails, and from resumes to presentations. Everything comes into play at work.

There were a couple things that I definately learned in the class was Design and Content they are equally important. If you have a design that doesn't flow well for the reader they have to struggle to get through it, they will not be able to understand the message. If you have a well designed document but poor content, the reader will probably not have a clue what the message is.

I would recomend this class be a requirement for everyone to graduate, because everything we went over is a realy good introduction to Technical Writing that we will be doing for the rest of our lives!

Job Ad

I've been working in Aviation for almost 4 years now, and love being an aircraft dispatcher. I graduated from Sheffield (a FAA certificated dispatcher program) 4 years ago and within a month got a job at Cape Air. Cape Air was the first Airline I applied to, I had applied to three others and got called for an interview for all of them. I picked Cape Air because it is in MA, and would allow me to continue my education here at Bridgewater State.

I relize how lucky I am to get my first job in my career that quickly. I also had a great school (Sheffield) that realy took care of there students during job searches. The school helped me put together Aviation resume, and applications.

I have a resume on JS Firm.com. This is a great Aviation website. It walks you through the resume process. Everything is done step by step. Some information is indrop down menus, and other areas you are free to type. All the info they get from you goes into a database, and when you search for jobs it gives you the jobs in which you are qualified first. There is so many other things you can do on this website, I just don't have the time to tell you.

I've been looking for a while at companies to got to when I'm done with school. One company is called ERA Helicopters. They operate helicopter tours throughout Alaska. But the other one that would a better job is Berry Aviation,they operate a charter organization.

Power Point

I understand why power point is so widely used. It is user friendly, gives a visual for the audience, helps the audience follow along durning the presentation. When properly used it can be a great tool.

Misusing Power Point can actually hurt your presentation. Here are a few things that can annoy the audience.
Text heavy slides
Bad Transition Slides
Misplaced Pictures
Bad Spelling and Grammar
Reading the Slide Word for Word
and there are many more

I thought this video would give you a humurous look at the truth!

Admissions Flyer

In order to start this project, I looked Images from Bridgewater State University's website. I found images like this with all the students.

I also was thinking about giving them an idea of what there campus is going to look like in about a year or so, and I thought that this illustration would help.
Now what I plan on doing is researching information that would be important to a new student.

Measures of Excellence in Technical Communication

There are 8 measures that characterize good technical communication.

• Honesty-If you are dishonest to the reader they maybe defrauded, injured, or even killed.
• Clarity-Unclear information can be dangerous,and expensive.
• Accuracy-Inaccuracies can confuse and annoy your audience.
• Comprehensiveness-The readers need this self contained discussion about the subject before they can use the information effectively, efficiently, and safely.
• Accessibility-Readers must be able to easily find what they are looking for in the document. Wither the document is online, or paper the reader does not want to waste time flipping or clicking through information they do not need
• Conciseness- The document needs to be short, and to the point.
• Proffesional Appearance-If the document looks proffesional then the reader will take it more seriously.
• Correctness- Punctuation, grammar, spelling, mechanics, and word usage must be correct. If its not correct you can unintentionately misinform a reader and put them in a dangerous situation.