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Master Plan Part 1 - Literature Review Revise and Arrange I feel like I’ve gotten enough time/distance that I can dive in with my editor’s cap on and revise my Literature Review. Once I’ve cleaned that up, I can take the introduction and slide it up to the first page. After I correct the References page, I can slide that to the back of my outline. Part 2 - Outline Make Choices and Commit I’ve been working on the Outline in-class when time was set aside for it. I’ve created a page for the Cover and a blank page for the Abstract.  The bare bones of the draft are there. I have “something” in all of the slots—sometimes as bullets, or simple sentences, or possibilities.  I have to make a big decision for Part III. Research Design and Methods: “Describe the Sample.” Right now, I have two routes I can take. If I go with Option 1, I do a sample of convenience using people from our university. However, that means I won’t be using a randomized representative pool of participants (and it...

M ore research into QR codes must be done. As it stands, technical writers have not studied QR codes and how they fit into technical writing, though the existing frameworks easily encompass it. Most importantly, technical writers need to ascertain how the majority of readers/users feel about QR codes. Barnum (2011) states that understanding how users experience products “determine[s] whether the design matches their expectations and supports their goals” (p. 10). How they perceive QR codes can inform technical writers and other researchers on how helpful or frustrating a QR code is. Technical writers and designers need this “feedback” (Barnum, 2011, p. 138). By now, most readers/users in metropolitan and suburban spaces in the United States have encountered QR codes in their daily lives. This means a variety of people of varying backgrounds and ages and technological skills will have formed opinions. They need to be invited into the conversation on QR codes. The market is being flood...