Genres
This genre is used during the employment process to summarize a candidate’s qualifications for a job.
What is a resume?
This is a person or program that receives and reads a piece of communication.
What is an audience?
This genre displays words to reflect the dialogue or voiceover on a video to make it more accessible to the hearing impaired or speakers of other languages.
What are captions?
This visual design concept refers to the even distribution of objects from left to right and top to bottom.
What is balance?
The first step in writing any tech comm text.
What is planning?
This genre is used to provide guidance during the process of some task, like assembling a piece of furniture.
What are instructions?
This is the goal or objective of a piece of communication.
What is the purpose?
These documents were used to disqualify and intimidate Black voters before the passing of the Voting Rights Act.
What are literacy tests?
This visual design concept refers to the way some objects are more attractive to the eye than others and thus draw more attention.
What is weight?
This decision should shape how you go about drafting an infographic..
What is deciding what story to tell?
This genre examines an issue and gives recommendations for addressing it.
What is a recommendation report?
This is the event or reality that necessitates a rhetorical response.
What is exigence?
This term refers to the theories and practices in technical communication that aim to make text accessible for all potential users.
What is Universal Design?
This visual design concept refers to the way items are placed horizontally or vertically.
What is alignment?
It’s a good idea to draft a list of these before starting to create a resume.
What are skills?
This genre combines images and text to communicate in a way that helps the audience understand something better.
What is an infographic?
When an author decides to use a paper flyer to advertise an event instead of an TikTok video, they are changing this.
What is genre?
This texturized material is often used on signs and posted maps to assist the visually impaired.
What is braille?
If your background is rose and your text is lavender, you may have a problem with this.
What is contrast?
These are raiders for information.
What are readers?
This genre is used to record activities, questions, decisions, and objectives.
What are meeting minutes?
Pencil and paper are an example of this.
What is technology?
These 3 concepts provide a way of analyzing a technical communicator’s ability to support or disrupt injustice.
What are the three p’s: positionality, privilege, and power?
Using numbers to indicate the sequential order of tasks in a process is an example of this.
What is Signaling structural relationships?
Sharing your finished or almost finished work with a peer or supervisor is part of this process.
What is review?