Introduction:
Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to present to Orbital ATK management to discuss about why it is important to hire a full-time technical writer or writers in the workplace. The purpose is to describe the benefits of having a technical writer and how he/she can impact the company greatly.
Description/Background: In business, there’s people that rely on technical writers if they ever make mistakes towards there writing. At Orbital ATK we’re all about cooperating with each other and as employees, few of us became involved in strategic thinking and planning for our company. We are all actively involved in our projects and we would love to discuss them while we are developing with new and creative ideas for brainstorming new machinery for more production of product and quality. Sharing ideas and getting different kinds of inputs how optimize our staffs can be towards making better machinery and quality ammo for government and non-government officials along the way (Linton).
Scope:
This proposal will show how beneficial it is to hire a full-time technical writer or writers. There’s much to discuss on what makes a technical writer and what can we use him or her for. Throughout observing the literature behind the importance of having a technical it can be quite help make our staffs improve more on the skills they need and the advice they can get whenever they get into some sort of trouble with their jobs. Along the discussions, there are different
When students complete a first draft, they consider the job of writing done – and their teachers too often agree. When professional writers complete a first draft, they usually feel that they are at the start of the writing process. When a draft is completed, the job of writing can begin. That difference in attitude is the difference between amateur and professional, inexperience and experience, journeyman and craftsman. Peter F. Drucker, the prolific business writer, calls his first draft “the zero draft”–after that he can start counting. Most writers share the feeling that the first draft, and all of those which follow, are opportunities to discover what they have to say and how best they can say it. To produce a progression of drafts, each of which says more and says it more clearly, the writer has to develop a special kind of reading skill. In school we are taught to decode what appears on the page as finished writing. Writers, however, face a different
Read Ch. 20, “Proposals and Requests for Proposals,” of Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century.
On the evening of Thursday July 23, 2015 I conducted an interview of Alex Benavides- a senior mechanical engineering major at Oklahoma State University. Benavides describes his experiences in his english courses as enjoyable, and notes that it helped him become a better writer. Benavides also states, that from personal experience during summer internships, that there are ineffective writers in positions where clean, flowing, and proper writing is a necessity. Proper grammar is essential in professional writing situations, according to Benavides, and is also often the first area critiqued by professors and teaching assistants. “You only get out what you put in when you write”, says Benavides, “be serious and grind, it makes the difference”.
Most elements of writing (development, organization, and style) fit task, purpose, and audience. Some identifiable mismatches.
My writing skills have allowed me to communicate effectively with colleagues, vendors, and project stakeholders. While working at the District, I have written many technology reports, design guides, implementation guidelines and strategies, and infrastructure recommendation reports. These documents have been used to make many decisive technology decisions for the district over the years. Although not required of me, my extensive knowledge of District infrastructure has led me to present to the School Board on several occasions. My oral communication skills have allowed me to rise to the occasion to present technological ideas to district leadership. My involvement in a joint powers arrangement between the District and the City means I am one of the main points of communication between the two entities making communicating effectively crucial.
There is a multitude of jobs and careers I want to have, as some of you may know, but I think we’re only allowed to talk about one. However, there is one job in particular that I know that I’ll do, whether I’m paid for it or not. That job is writing. Not only do you need language skills, but I believe that you will need creativity and an immense amount of patience in order to be a successful writer of any sort.
In Chapter 1 of Eliyahu Goldratt’s book The Goal, we are introduced to Alex Rogo a mere plant manager, whom going into work that early morning is already faced with issues. While the reading continues we are introduced to a group of frustrated characters including, Dempsey, Ray, Martinez, and an hourly worker Tony. Bill Peach the vice president of this plant has decided to come in early causing a ruckus in the plant. Peach is frustrated because customer order 41427 is late and decided to take matters into his own hands, by threatening Tony's job in which he has no power of doing so. Rogo now has to face the problem and handle it himself. As the chapter continues we see many different types of writing in the workplace mentioned and how it is utilized. Chapter 1 of The Goal shows us how purchase orders, grievance forms, and efficiencies are relevant in the workplace.
This highlights the importance of drafting, reviewing and editing to produce better academic and professional writing. Grellier & Goerke (2014) remind authors that writing is for the benefit of readers, and clear meaning and engaging content shows respect to the audience.
Sam Dillon, informs the blue-chip company employees about their lack of writing skills and the ability to construct a simple sentence. In, “What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence” Dillon gives great examples about how improper writing has affected the industry financially and in other areas. Many employees fall below average when communicating with one another and that is causing major problem within companies. Sam Dillon in “What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence” is effective in informing blue-chip company employees about their lack in the ability to construct a sentence and other forms of communications and does so by using his credibility, strong statistics, and hard evidence.
At the end of this semester, I have learned great useful skills about technical writing. The skills are very diverse that come from many lessons. Each lesson have their different distinctive features, so they have a lot of new knowledge that I do not know at first. Fortunately, I have soon realized these new knowledge are whole new valuable resources to me because they have not only helped me to obtain some learning outcomes of Salt Lake Community College but they also would be very useful in my future.
Creativity and innovation are necessary in life, whether it is for evolving and adapting to new surroundings or for pulling a company out of a financial crisis, we use our creative abilities and innovate every day. In order to develop and grow the ability to think creatively, one must first understand where these ideas come from and in what environment innovation flourishes. Steven Johnson, Edward Burger, and Michael Starbird suggest change comes from productive thinking and working collaboratively in a group. Effective thinking can be broken down into five essential elements, while working collaboratively in a group setting allows for different views on the topic at hand creating a stronger more defined product or process.
J. E. Mahan, A. Jayasumana, D. Lile and M. Palmquist, "Bringing an emphasis on technical writing to a freshman course in electrical engineering," in IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 36-42, Feb 2000.
The major concern was that students both past and present did not meet the expectations of professional writing. These complaints were expressed by both corporate executives and graduate faculty. The situation was summed up at a curriculum review meeting. They may have the greatest ideas in the world but, if they cannot express them clearly and persuasively in simple paragraph form, that is clear, concise, and grammatically correct, they are of no use to the company.
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The study in this write up was conducted to carefully evaluate if any; the relationship between bring up new ideas and working guidelines and the benefits to a company down the road. Studies have over time suggested that agencies run under government make efforts to encourage creativity and new