Technical Writing Class: 06/29/09

Synthesis: June 29, 2009

We immediately started to have the assigned reports. Bianca Erika discussed first the style in technical writing. According to her report, style is a writer’s way of writing. Then, Mrs. Manzano asked her what’s the difference between style and technical style. Most of us tried to answer her question but still we can’t get it. She stressed that the definition the reporter gave is correct – style is the manner by which the writer expresses his thoughts and feelings. However, technical style is more on the technical subject matter. She even added that in technical writing, the tone is calm; vocabulary is specialized; format follows accepted conventions. And, again, Mrs. Manzano got high blood. She noticed that most of those who recite in her class only read their work. She emphasized that she doesn’t want reading notes. We should study at home, remember those in our minds, and NOT read in front of the professor. “Ang lalakas naman ng mga apog niyo,” she said angrily. She wants us to go deeper actually. She has really a point to that. Then, she helped Bea to conduct an assessment about the General – Specific topic. What most of us did was that we just numbered the items according to its generality. But, that’s not how Mrs. Manzano meant in arranging the items. The correct thing was the items should be indented and similar items have to be numbered the same. Before our session ended, Jayson stood up and opened the class proposal about the change in submission of this daily synthesis. The class dealt with Mrs. Manzano if we can have the options we have in mind. Unfortunately, she denied our suggestion. Her points are she wants us to do this for us to become more computer literate, and she doesn’t believe that all of us can’t afford to have this everyday renting of computer for typing and printing synthesis. “Kayo people hindi niyo na naman ginagamit ang mga utak niyo.” This is a requirement, so we will do our best to adjust. Anyway, this is a challenging training. Before she stepped out of the room, she reminded us that we should never ever use A(h1n1) flu as an excuse for not attending class when the truth behind is that we only have no assignment in her subject. So, definitely, “walang makakalusot.”