cylon defense manual project
For my final project in Technical Writing, my class and I watched the first season of the new Battlestar Galactica series. We were instructed to create our own manuals for the purposes of citizens and mid-ranked soldiers on the field.The significance of this project was its forms of technical writing, such as instructions, illustrations, maps, descriptions, warnings, etc. I would say this is one of the most valuable projects I've ever worked on and it was a great success.
Here are some of the questions that needed to be answered in how we communicated this information:
- what is your manual's scope?
- what content does your manual absolutely need?
- what content would it be good to include, but isn't absolutely essential?
- what content should be presented as imperative commands vs. independent choices?
- what images might serve your purpose vs. just adding bulk?
- what would be a natural end point for your manual?
- how can you unify your design and style to serve your rhetorical purposes and audiences?
- how can you visually balance text, white space, and images to your advantage?
"I feel like in an emergency, I could really rely on this to get me out of whatever.. alien world that is." - my ex
"This is actually really good."- my roommate
- my professor:
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