Professional & Technical Communication

Workplace writing in a variety of places and ways

A Supplemental Text for English 3764 at Virginia Tech as taught by Traci Gardner <tengrrl @ vt. edu>

Examining a Technical Description

Today’s post examines a kind of technical description that I expect everyone in the course is familiar with: Job Descriptions. In this LinkedIn Learning video, Freda Thomas explains what a job description is (She’s providing a definition, as explained in Markel & Selber, Chapter 20) and then describes the key features of a job description, which is a kind of technical description.

Watch the LinkedIn Learning video Creating a Compelling Job Description and consider how it works to define and describe an object. The video is free with your VT login. Follow these instructions to login.

After you view the video, you can comment on the strategies that are used to create the technical description, OR tell us how another example of a technical description that you interact with on a regular basis works.

Screenshot from Creating a Compelling Job Description Video