Week 4: Organizing Information

📖 Reading

• Read ETC Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development
• Read ETC Transitions and Organization
• Read ETC Reverse Outlining
• Read ETC Reading Games

🎯 Check your understanding

• Reading Quiz Week 4

🥣 Prepare for class

• For Wednesday: Submit a topic idea that you will write a user guide about. Your idea should be a subset of your annual review article (or a topic covered in that article), but you should focus on the practical implementation (e.g. demonstrating the use of software which can perform the task).

☕ Monday

• Transitions and Organizing Information
• Slides

🐪 Wednesday

• Thing Explainer In-Class Activity: how does audience matter, and what assumptions do we make about the audience’s technical knowledge?

🏋️ Practice your skills

• Highlight transitions in your review article and comment on their effectiveness, obviousness, etc.
• Create a reverse outline of your review article. Are there any obvious holes?