topic: technical writing
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The first skill a technical writer should have is the ability to write. The ability to write is not something that every person has. To be able to properly articulate thoughts into written words that are palpable is a complicated process, especially when there is a targeted audience involved. Large difficult or uncommonly used words can not only be hard for a reader to understand but can make the writer sound pretentious or condescending. A technical writer must be able to strike a balance of authoritative and knowledgeable but also be appealing in tone. The second most important skill would be the ability to identify the target audience. Knowing who you are writing for allows you to identify the tone you should be using. It also dictates how the writing should be formatted for publication. Which leads us to the last important skill: the familiarization of different technical writing software and their tools. If you don’t know your way around how to use different technical writing software like WordPress PowerPoint Adobe or Publisher and many others it has the potential to prevent a technical writing project from reaching its full potential. Taking the time to familiarize and research different software to utilize for publication, is just as important as the research for your writing topic.
For my job in interior communications in the Navy, knowing my audience is the most important skill to have. I have to communicate with different audiences everyday such as civilians, officers and junior sailors. Each one requires a different tone to my writing. Each one has different levels of education or familiarization with the equipment that I oversee. Knowing who I am writing to allows me to cater to their needs when passing along information or instructions.
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Three skills of a successful technical writer would be work ethic, preparation, and clarity. Work ethic is the ability to voluntarily spend time on your technical writing project and determine to improve writing skills. Preparing is a skill related to preparing a technical writing document and taking the necessary steps to organize, plan, and layout your technical writing document. Preparation shows care for your document and allow you to gather the knowledge necessary to display information to the viewers. Clarity is a skill that is necessary for technical writers because it allows you to write your technical documentation in a straight-to-the-point and straightforward way. Clarity allows a technical writer to write down the information in a clear context, making it easy for the reader to understand the material. Work ethic, preparation, and organization would be most vital for me in a technical writer position. Ensuring that I am dedicated to my career and writing technical documents allows me to stay motivated and consistent with my work. If you do not have a work ethic, it is hard to stay motivated in your career and be successful. Preparation and organization go hand in hand, but it is a vital skill because sometimes I get overwhelmed with additional research and information that I am trying to gather and put together to make sense to an individual reading it. Giving myself time to prepare and organize documents helps my work be better and takes stress off of me.
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If I were a technical writer, the skills I would consider most vital to my position would be an ability to write instructions, to make them clear, simple, specific, and easy to understand, and to make the purpose and context of my writing clear and specific. This is because technical writing relies on teaching people to do things or how something works and relies on clear, specific instructions to get its message across to readers. Having the ability to write instructions, to make them clear, simple, specific, and easy to understand, and to make the purpose and context of one’s writing clear and specific help readers who read technical writing to understand one’s message and to learn what one wants them to learn. Without these skills, a technical writer will not succeed in their position, and this is because readers will be confused by instructions that either have steps out of order or are stated in too-general or vague terms. Therefore, technical writers need to learn these skills if they want to succeed in technical writing.
topic :nature vs nurture
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I feel the nature is just as important as nurture. I feel a person is a combination of both and which one plays a bigger role in a person life is determined by the individual. In my opinion we pick up bits and pieces of nature as it can affect one personality and behaviors the same with Nurture except it effects one’s development and color one’s view. A person is a combination of their nature and nurture and how they interpreted the nurture plays a huge role. Two mathematicians having a child does not guarantee their child will also love math, them being in an environment where math is incorporated in everything may influence the child to take a liking to math. The child could also feel the parents want him to be like him and grow to hate math when all they parent where doing is sharing their love and hoping for it to become their child love as well. I feel interpretation is huge factor in which plays a bigger role in one’s life, but both are equally as important. In the video of the twins experimented on is fascinating and supports the belief that it is a mixture of Nature vs. Nurture that influences a ones development. One twin always knew that there was someone or something and one twin had no such feeling or desire for children and the other twin.
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The debate between nature and nurture has been going on for decades with many different sides weighing in. When we look at the nature side of an individuals development we look at the genetics of the person, the dna that makes up, not only their physical traits, such as eye and hair color, but also the mental, emotional, and behavior that can be linked to their genetics. On the other side of the spectrum, we have the nurture aspect, which focuses on the enviroment an individual is raised and exposed to starting even before birth. Both play a vital role in a persons behavior, so the question remains, so which is most important? the answer is both. We are all born with certain traits passed down from generation to generation, and can have a significant roll in behavior development, but despite genetics, a persons enviroment can play a large roll. For example, my parents were both well educated, passive, and had no addictive type behavior, and these traits were also shared with both sets of grandparents. Despite a great set of genetics (nature), and a loving, caring enviroment (nurture), as my surroundings changed, so did my behavior. When subjected to hostile surroundings that was filled with, violence and drug use, even with good genetics and great enviroment as a youth, my life would turn around for the worse, simply because of what i would call a later in life nurturing process, so both of these aspect of a persons life can absolutely play a vital role in development behavior, no matter what stage in life you may be in.
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Nature can affect our sleep because of our genes crying can be hereditary socializing can be because of our genes also, one twin talk about how twins ahs a closeness in the womb her relationship around others and how they were separated for research
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