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Mr. Colors
After watching movies, I went back home to work on my blog. Reading my classmates' blogs, a post of one of them caught my attention. Lee was wondering how colors can influence us. Indeed, each color gives us different feelings. I will talk about how they...
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"Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life" - Opinion
Writer Shauna Niequist has recently posted the article, "Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life". I would like to give my reaction to her post. As I only have an account on Facebook, my opinion will be based on my experience on Facebook. Everyone's life...
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Beyond the Rainbow
France. You have two cows 1 . You go on strike and demand a third one. France is very popular for being on strike. When I was living in France, I had the impression there was a demonstration every week. It is not true, fortunately! For a few months, several...
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Time Out
What are you finding challenging this semester? This question is from the blogging checklist of my blog assignment. I could answer writing and working with a good English but actually, my biggest challenge is: time management . I have just read Tom Johnson's...
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Thinking of Them
This morning, in the class of Technical Writing, the lecturer talked about the accessibility to websites, how disabled people can be forgotten, and so, they can't use some parts of the website, or even totally can't do anything with the website. When...
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Tell Me about Your National Anthem
The 2013 RBS 6 Nations is currently on. I do not watch rugby and I won't talk about it, but national anthems. So, recently, a friend of mine sent a post on Facebook which reads she liked X and Y anthems in watching rugby, then another friend replied to...
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HTML and CSS
Two weeks ago, I started to use HTML and created a basic web page during the lab of Technical Writing class. Last week, I did the exact same thing in another lab from another module: Introduction to Web Development . Consequently, I worked very fast for...
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This Social Network
For the collaborative discussions with my teammates for our Documentation Project for Translation, our course directors suggest Sulis platform but we are allowed to use any kind of other tools if they are more convenient. Sulis includes a forum, a chat...
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Let's start blogging!
After our tutor introduced the module lab, while all my classmates started to set up their blogs, I was stuck with a problem from the very beginning. A question kept going round in my head: which blogging platform should I use? Of course, Wordpress was...
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What Is Technical Writing?
Last year, I graduated from a Licence 1 in Japanese. I didn't want to continue my education in that field because I couldn't see any nice future for me. In France, when you study languages, literature, history, fine arts, actually any field in arts and...
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La Chiamavano Helvetica*
*They call her Helvetica. Credits: memegenerator.net What are the conventions of an instructional document? I've been showed how to write the instructions, I've learnt how to design a document, I've read Gagné's book about the principles of instructional...
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Team Project 3.0
Picture from: http://arras.catholique.fr/page-17951.html. After hibernating all summer long, my blog comes alive again! ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ This semester, I am doing a virtual team project : the Collaborative Documentation Project for Translation. Students from the...
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A Font Named Serif
A fantasy font. Picture credits: Ozzie Scribbler, http://ozziescribbler.deviantart.com/art/Ancient-Quill-FREE-FANTASY-SCI-FI-FONT-297679343. Last week, I received a mail from a friend. When I opened the mail, I didn't feel like reading it: the mail was...
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Thank You for Working
Previously, I blogged about difficulties of working in a team. While teamwork is still a mystery to me, I at least tried to think of what a good team is. I sometimes watch the TV show Bones . There are a lot of TV shows about mysteries and murders and...
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Instructions
The team project is almost over, when suddenly a wave of panic invades my class. We're all wondering: Where do we submit the assignment? What format must we use? Must we only submit the original version or both original and translated versions? The last...
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In the Realm of the Tenses
One of the French teammates posted the translation on Sulis. As I can speak French, I checked her translation. Since I've been living in an English speaking country for a few months, reading French was a bit unusual. The translation looks good. At the...
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Blog with Facebook
A teammate of mine, who has never blogged, asked if Facebook (FB) could be used as a blog. Including me, three of our team replied "no". However, I thought of it again and my answer is "no... for now". In what way Facebook can be used as a blog? Of course,...
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Can You Lead Me All the Way?
I just met my teammates for my collaborative project last week, and it is already the end of the second week, while I must keep in mind that our English document must be submitted next week. Times flies so fast! Last week, we introduced ourselves, it...
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The More the Harder
Even though my contribution to the team project is finished, I still keep an eye on the forum Sulis and follow the discussions of the French team, just composed of two translator students. They organized and shared the part of the work very fast. They...
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Dear Team
My course director asked me how my collaborative project was going. I immediately answered I was lucky and didn't have much to complain. I deduce I am lucky when I compare my team and the other teams in the class. Except the lack of leadership that I...
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At Work's End
The team project file is submitted and ends the team assignment, so this blog is a report of the six week project. My impressions of working in a virtual team The very start was very friendly and I felt welcome. Then, when it comes to working, it was...
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Final Submission
I posted the latest version of the instructional document last week. It means the first part of the assignment is over. It also means that the instructional designer students, the US and Irish teams, can now rest until the French team's feedback. Indeed,...
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Copyright Case
Lately, in my class of technical writing, we talked a lot about copyright, intellectual property, hacking, etc. Our lecturer encouraged students to give their opinions on this topic, so I could hear a lot of different and interesting ones from my classmates....
