This activity is designed to help students think critically about the different ways of delivering an oral presentation. The goal is to prepare them for their final presentations.

In this in-class activity, I use a video from the hit sit-com "The Office" to show how encountering a new genre in the workplace can be an intimidating experience. This activity engages students with genre issues in preparation for the memo assignment.

A presentation and activity meant to introduce students to Technical Communication

This presentation and activity will introduce students to the concept of audience in Technical Communication

This presentation and activity will introduce students to the genre of Instructions.

This presentation and activity will introduce students to the Technical Description genre.

This presentation and activity will introduce students to the genre of Technical Definitions

This presentation will introduce students to the genre of Reports.

This activity encourages students to develop clarity in communicating a technical process to a non-expert audience.

This is a pre-discussion activity that allows students to assert confidence about readings and also admit confusions in a safe, conversational environment.

Students engage in a visual and oral activity that showcases the importance of common language, local idioms, cultural context, clarity in one-way communication.

This activity encourages team building and attention to the audience component of writing instructions.