Writ. 316/Writing for the Technical Professions

Writ. 316--
TechnicalWriting



General information

Syllabus

Discussion Board

Editing and Sample Projects Links

Web Help Corner


Job Links

Research links

NYIT Library Site (opens in a new window)

NYIT Main Site (opens in a new window)

Home

Helpful Links for your Group Home and Individual Instructions Pages; Class Web Ring

Netscape Composer Tutorials:

http://www.umw.edu/technology/training/internet/composer/index.htm

http://www.bsu.edu/web/bwills/composer/index_files/slide0001.html

Downloading Netscape:

If you want to continue working on your web page off-campus and don't have Netscape, click on the following link to download the program for FREE:

http://www.netscape.com/

Downloading CoreFTP:

Unfortunately, WS-FTP is no longer available for free by now, so if you haven't downloaded it yet and don't have another FTP utility on your computer, you can download CoreFTP instead for FREE. It's almost identical to WS-FTP:

http://www.coreftp.com/

CoreFTP Tutorial (for home use--please keep in mind that the instructions are for another university. So the host would be iris.nyit.edu and the remote start folder, called "initial remote site folder" in WS-FTP, would be public_html):

http://www.sunybroome.edu/compresources/UseCoreFTP.html

WS-FTP Tutorial (for in-class uploading):

http://www.frognet.net/help/archives/wsftple_configure.php

Sample Projects: Student Group Web Sites (with links to individual instructions pages):

http://www.geocities.com/supertechgroup/Medtech.html

http://www.geocities.com/techwriting2001/

http://www.geocities.com/the_outer_limit_1999/

Capturing Screen Shots:

For PC Users: http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm

For Mac Users: press Shift-Control-Command-4 and then follow the instructions for PC Users to create a screen shot for web-authoring. If you need a screen shot for a paper or Power Point Presentation, you might prefer a .pdf file and follow the instructions in this link:

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic7.htm#1
(click on "Macintosh Screen Capture")

Sample Instructions Pages/Problems:

iPod Instructions:

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/index.html

http://iris.nyit.edu/%7Esmule/Tutorial/tut2.html

Instructions for an art "thinking hat":

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/@rtrageous/thinking_cap.html

Home Blood Glucose Testing Instructions:

http://health.yahoo.com/ency/adam/003438/overview

http://www.diabetesuffolk.com/Managing%20Diabetes/Home%20Glucose%20Monitoring.asp

Audience Problems and Instructions:

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/31/1728_74591.htm

Class Web Ring:

NOTE: If you don't find your web address below, talk to me ASAP, since that means you either have nothing up yet or nothing related to the course, which indicates that you didn't do any group work.

http://iris.nyit.edu/~mballas

http://iris.nyit.edu/~kblaney

http://iris.nyit.edu/~cgreiss

http://iris.nyit.edu/~slowe

http://iris.nyit.edu/~dmorcos

http://iris.nyit.edu/~jneissan

http://iris.nyit.edu/~czuba

http://iris.nyit.edu/~snarine

http://iris.nyit.edu/~hhwang

http://iris.nyit.edu/~jparaiso

http://iris.nyit.edu/~mpaolice

http://iris.nyit.edu/~dkinkaid

http://iris.nyit.edu/~ddicandi

http://iris.nyit.edu/~rlenz

http://iris.nyit.edu/~kstamm

http://iris.nyit.edu/~mdiveron

http://iris.nyit.edu/~smule

http://iris.nyit.edu/~vwebb

http://iris.nyit.edu/~cbetanco

http://iris.nyit.edu/~wclaibor

http://iris.nyit.edu/~kmackenz

http://iris.nyit.edu/~jespos01