What to Include in a Portfolio
You have started to save your money to buy what is necessary to put your portfolio together, and now you want to decide what to include in it.
Why Technical Writers Should Create a Portfolio
Provides a rationale for why a portfolio can be an important component of the job search process.
Writing for Different Audiences

For this exercise, you will be looking at as many as four texts about Java, a programming language that has recently become a phenomenon because it allows programmers to make interactive pages on the World Wide Web. You’ll examine and discuss the way these different texts approach their different audiences, then construct an article, pamphlet, or brochure about Java for an audience you choose.
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials>Writing
Regardless of what industry you work in, as a professional communicator you will encounter the difficulty of defining a new or unfamiliar term for your readers. How will you explain a new concept like random access memory? How would you even know where to begin? Technical Communication/4e presents several options you have for writing technical definitions, providing examples of both short and extended definitions. For this exercise you will construct a technical definition for a specific audience. The strategy you choose for defining the concept depends on the audience(s) you select, that audience’s need(s) for the information, and the type of document in which the definition would appear.
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials>Writing
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