The revising of a revision

Of my choices two choices of revision I will be choosing essay #2. Essay number two was chose because it is easier to critique someone's work than it is to make a work to your standards of judgement. Even my second revision of essay 2 had many short comings and could be vastly improved, both in content and format. The newest revision will focus primarily on including more data in the pamphlet style design as well as using color schema to make the flow easier to follow.

Fundamentals of Oral Presentation

   Addressing all the fundamentals of oral presentations is quite repetitive if you already know the fundamentals of technical writing. But despite the excessive similarities they do have some differences that should be noted. Those points will be analyzed first in similarities then in differences.

   Both written communication oral communication must first identify their audience and purpose. No one wants to read what you write or listen to what you present, its your job to keep as much of their attention for as long as possible. You should tailor you presentation to your audience as you would a document, remaining as concise and accurate as possible. Remember to consider how your audience will interpreter what you say based on their position and background.

   There are 2 major differences between oral and written presentations which are time and style. As Tebeaux and Dragga say in The Essentials of Technical Communication 2^nd Ed. your audience can not re-hear what you say during a presentation. You must include repetition to pass along important point; This is what I am going to tell you ; Tell them ; This is what I told you. Your style is important too, when you email or print a technical document that is the end of your work, but a presentation is a dynamic conversation. Tebeaux and drag say that you should not memorize your presentation but learn it, changing your style/content on the spot if you audience in confused or uninterested. Since you cant change slides on the fly remember to keep them simple and clear. Complicated images can take too much studying and lose their effectiveness when time is so tight.

The Essentials of Technical Writing

A book titled The Essentials of Technical Communication 2nd Ed. by Tebeaux and Dragga has some practical points on what they call business writing. The most memorable quote of the book is perhaps "No one wants to read what you write" and while comical is true. The point they make is that the more work you do behind the scenes to make a document informative and easy to read the less work the reader needs to do up front...and the is what technical writing is all about. Regrettably there is no template to make a perfect document because technical or business writing is a dynamic field changing both format and content based on the audience and purpose of the writing. What Tebeaux and Dragga do give us is what I consider fundamentals and boundaries. Fundamentals are the basics that make a document successful such as the design principals (Alignment, Proximity, Contrast, Repetition, Forn&Color). While boundaries are things that make a document a failure such as plagiarism, moral conflicts, or misinformation. The goal is to make a document easy to read using any tools available to you within a budget and have the content as informative as possible without having too much content. Too much content deters readers but not enough and the document loses its purpose.