Technical
writing is an English course where the first year medical students study it
during their summer semester. The course instructor and the one who teaches it
is Mr. Saif
Al-Dhahli. The course
is subdivided into 3 assignments. Assignment 1 is an announced Quiz and it
carries 25% of the total weightage. It consists of reading questions where each
question should be solved within 2 minutes. The quiz is planned to start on
Thursday the 18th of June on the Moodle website.
Assignment 2 consists of Online group discussion. Students are divided by the
instructor into groups. Each group will be given a topic to talk about where
each student should not speak less than 3 minutes and no more than 5 minutes.
The meeting is going to be held in an app called Zoom and groups are given a specific time to start their
meeting. The assignment carries 20% and it will start on the 5th of July. At
last assignment 3 is based on a website design with the help of Blogger. This
website is to be made by students immediately after they start their first week
and ends on the 9th of July. This website aims to make the students post the
work and assignments assigned by their course instructor. On the last day, the
students are required to submit their website by copying the link and pasting
it in Moodle where the instructor will review it. This assignment carries the highest weightage
compared to others which are 55%. Technical writing is a very essential way for
people to express or convey the message they want to send in a more
professional way. Characteristics of technical writing are that it is a more
direct and formal way of writing as compared to Academic writing. Not only that
but also Technical writing should be very informative, detailed, and very
structured. Technical writing is more likely used in industries and workplaces,
while Academic writing is used in an educational institution, digital and
printed media as well as literary organization.
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