Welcome to the class blog of COM 315! This course adderssses the specific challenges involved in communicating complex, technical information to both lay and experienced audiences. Throughout the semester, we will be reading several journal articles relating to how presenters can communicate complex ideas in a clear and understanding way. Students are required to reflect on these articles in the blog, as well as apply the readings to real-world instances.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Midterm Outline Review

Read over the Rowan article. Be familiar with the different myths of audience understanding...and how she says we should over come these barriers to understanding.

Rowan defines elucidating, transformative, and quasi-scientific. Know what these are and be able to write an elucidating/transformative explanation if provided an example.

Know the different kinds of technical audiences.

Be familiar with organization and coordination of subpoints.

Be familiar with organizational structure (topical, chronological, etc).

Know the different fallacies of logic discussed in your text and in class.

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