Community Timeline Assignment
Connection to Tech Comm
Schedule. Most proposals contain a section that shows not only the projected completion date but also key milestones for the project. If you are doing a large project spreading over many months, the timeline would also show dates on which you would deliver progress reports. If you cannot cite specific dates, cite amounts of time for each phase of the project.https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/chapter/3-4-common-sections-in-proposals/
https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/technicalwriting/?s=timeline
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/do/search/?q=timeline&start=0&context=16209852&facet=
https://pressbooks.library.tamu.edu/howdyorhello/?s=timeline
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Try one of these options for students’ timeline projects:
Social movements can benefit from a timeline that shows the growth and work of the movement. Ask writers to review the accomplishments the action group has reached and the levels of need that exist. The timeline can include past events as well as upcoming milestones.
- Create a timeline for a webpage with Knight Lab’s TimelineJS or the Express Online Timeline Maker.
- Use a series of photos to create a Reel on Instagram.
- Design an infographic timeline, which can be printed or displayed online, with a tool like Canva’s Free Online Timeline Maker.
Read More
- Revolutionary User Interfaces (Example Knight Lab Timeline)
- How To Create A Simple, Effective Project Timeline In Six Steps (Forbes)
- Create an Effective Project Timeline in 5 Simple Steps (The Ascent, from The Motley Fool)
- McKenzie River Trust Celebrates 30 Years (Timeline example, alternate link)
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References
Passera, S. (2018). Flowcharts, Swimlanes, and Timelines: Alternatives to Prose in Communicating Legal–Bureaucratic Instructions to Civil Servants. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(2), 229–272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651917746459
Grodnikova, V.A., Bolshakova, A.V., Abakumova, M.V., Shakurov, A.A. (2020). A Cross-cultural Aspect of the Technical Writer Profession. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_106
Herrstrom, D. S. (1984). Technical Writing as Mapping Description onto Diagram: The Graphic Paradigms of Explanation. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 14(3), 223–240. https://doi.org/10.2190/8EAN-J605-QL07-PECH
Teaching Public, Scientific Controversy: Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in the Technical Writing Classroom, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0047281617744507
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