Digital+Training+Manual+Project+Instructions

Collaborating On and Creating a Digital Training Manual

Final Deadline: Wednesday, March 14


 * Big Guy Corp, an international food and household goods conglomerate with a corporate headquarters in mid-Michigan, has contacted Delta College Corporate Services to create a digital training manual to improve the technical writing skills of its employees across its North America operations. **


 * __The areas Big Guy Corp wants to see addressed are as follows__ : ****
 * Strategic Planning and Being Creative
 * Persuading Others
 * Organizing and Drafting
 * Using Plain Style
 * Designing Documents and Interfaces
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revising and Editing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Preparing and Giving Presentations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Social Networking Tools


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You and seven other freelance technical writers have been asked by Corporate Services to work with another on this project. In teams of two, you will create and manage the materials for two of the bullets above using Wikispaces, a wiki platform that allows for asynchronous collaboration, so that the trainers at Big Guy Corp can easily view and utilize your final materials. The URL is: http://bigguycorptraining213.wikispaces.com. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will provide an initial work plan and weekly status reports via email as you create your materials, and a final team performance review (hard copy) once the project is completed, to Mr. Somers. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__How to Create the Material__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Utilize the appropriate chapters from your Technical Communication Today textbook and its companion site as the core of your training materials.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Determine what information would be most essential and necessary to working professionals at Big Guy Corp who wish to improve their skills, or receive a refresher.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Post your material in a visually appealing and easy-to-follow way on your assigned wiki pages.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create supplemental materials such as PowerPoint or handouts to embed on the pages.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find reliable websites and add links to information that helps supplement and illustrate the textbook information.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Technical Communication Today Chapters/Resources to Utilize__ **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Chapter 3: Working in Teams__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Since this is a group project, you will be working in teams of two. You are responsible for creating a work plan that contains your tentative project calendar (at the very least), but hopefully will include an attempt at a mission statement and outcomes/objectives. Identifying team roles will be helpful. Since you’ll be working together digitally, the Virtual Teaming section of the chapter will be helpful. At the end of this project, you will write a Team Performance Review. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Chapter 9: Activity Reports__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Specifically Progress Reports (pg. 247-249). You’ll be sending weekly progress reports (leave out the expenses part of the model shown on pg. 248, since it doesn’t apply) via email. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Chapters Specific to Your Assigned Topic.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The chapters will have the information you need to distill, as does the companion website, which will serve as the backbone of your training materials. **