Discussion 1

Choose one of the 10 Minute Tech Comm Podcast episodes listed below and write a 200 words minimum listening response to the episode. In your response you can reflect on what caught your attention in the episode and explain why you found this information to be new, important, annoying, or in other ways interesting.  One of the questions you might choose to answer is how the podcast changed how you think about technical and professional communication, or any of the concepts we’ve learned thus far. 

Please be specific in your answer, in order to demonstrate that you listened to the episode and engaged with the ideas. 

Episodes to choose:

1.Dr. Miriam F. Williams on Race and Ethnicity in Tech Comm (Links to an external site.)

2.Katherine Spivey on Plain Language (Links to an external site.)

Here’s how you’ll be graded: 

• Assignment submission is well-developed, thorough, and detailed. (6 points)
• Assignment submission responds to all parts of the assigned texts or prompt. If a word count is mentioned, the assignment meets the word count. (2 points)
• Assignment shows evidence of proofreading and editing. (2 points).