Assignment task: Effectively interpreting and presenting technical data can be challenging, particularly for topics in which you are not an expert. Sometimes, to become familiar with a topic, you need to collaborate with experts in that field to help you interpret the information and dense data. Additionally, technological tools for preparing, analyzing, and presenting data can make a technical communicator's job-helping the audience understand the data-much easier. To comprehensively understand and share dense technical information, you will need to understand who to work with, how to collaborate with them, and the data presentation tools that are available.
Respond to the following prompt:
1. Identify ways that technology, internal communication, and collaboration contribute to a technical communicator's success in interpreting and presenting technical data.
2. Explain how you would utilize various media to help your audience understand technical information.
3. Provide a rationale why you would use those media forms and how they will contribute to your audience's understanding.
Consider the following aspects of technology, internal communication, and collaboration in your answer:
1. Technological tools to help you with the collaboration of the data presentation processes
2. Processes you may undertake before beginning a project.
3. Strategies for working with others to gain knowledge and avoid common mistakes