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Welcome to the Engl 271-05 Fall 2006 Burnett blog. In this blog we are going to discuss each chapter in Rebecca Burnett's textbook, Technical Communication, as one of the main assignments for English 271-05 at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The way it works is that each student blogs a chapter in Burnett. Every other student leaves a comment on that blog each week. By the end of the semester, we will have blogged the entire book.

What are you going to write in your blog entry? Here's the topic: How does my life (at work, at university, at home) connect with the content in this particular chapte? For example, you might be a long distance runner. That means that you might keep very detailed records about your training runs: distance, weather, time, and conditions. In this case you would make connections with chapter content and your record keeping (as a kind of technical document.)