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Coding Elegance: Sample Code

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#include <stdio.h>

#define INITIAL 1

#define KILO_CONVERSION 1.6093

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{int count, miles, numConversions, increment;

int #include <stdlib.h>

conversions(int, int);

float milesToKm(int);

printf("Welcome to the miles to kilometers converter!!!!\n\n");

printf("Please enter the total number of conversions...\n");

scanf("%d", &numConversions);

printf("Please enter the number of miles...\n");

scanf("%d", &miles);

printf("Please enter the increment between each mile...\n");

scanf("%d", &increment);

printf("\n");

for ( count = INITIAL; count <= numConversions; count ++)

{printf("%d miles is equivalent to %5.2f kilometers!\n", miles,

milesToKm(miles));

miles = conversions(increment, miles);

}printf("\n");system("PAUSE");return 0;}

int conversions(int increment, int miles)

{int nextVal;

nextVal = increment + miles;return nextVal;}

float milesToKm(int miles)

{float kilometers;

kilometers = miles * KILO_CONVERSION;return kilometers;}

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Welcome Page

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Kathy's Place 4 Hope is a center for grieving children. It is a community of trained

volunteers who provide a safe and compassionate place for children to grow through

grief and bereavement. Partic ipat ion in program activ it ies helps children transform

themselves and bui ld the means of remembering.

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Title: STUDENT INVOLVEMENT = STUDENT SUCCESS

What student involvement does:

Develops personal interests

Encourages students to share ideas

Requires students to demonstrate their values

Produces opportunities for students that they would not normally receive

By being involved a student gains leadership experience by “leading the herd”

Students who are involved in their school build everlasting friendships with their classmates

Student involvement allows students to make a difference

Call to action: GET INVOLVED TODAY!

The Facebook icon and the web address inform students where to go to get involved at the University of

South Florida.

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My Writing Philosophy

As a technical communicator, I treat every assignment seriously, and I view each assignment as

an opportunity to showcase my abilities. I believe that every assignment provides the possibility

to grow and change as a writer as well. I view writing like water. Water has many forms, and it

can adapt to its environment. Water can come with great force, or it can be very gentle and

subtle. Water is balanced, elegant and consistent. This is the way that I strive to write.

My work features a strong emphasis on computers and technology. I focus on presenting a very

technical field in a creative manner. In doing so, I wish to make the information from the field

more accessible to more people. I achieve this by making my writing very concise and complete.

I conduct thorough research and fully understand a topic. Then, I synthesize the material for all

audiences. I believe that consistency is the key to being successful.

My experience as a technical communicator has allowed me to edit and produce a variety of

documents including: websites, brochures, product descriptions, advertisements and instructional

booklets. This portfolio seeks to demonstrate my genesis as a technical communicator. While

focusing on computers and technology, I will also include documents that transcend the field in

order to show my depth as a technical communicator.

“Be like water. Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”

– Bruce Lee

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Table of Contents Title: Page:

Writing Like Water: My Personal Philosophy 2

Managing Microsoft’s Website 3-4 This piece focuses on elegance and simplicity. The original page was too cluttered and had too much happening.

The revised home page, for Microsoft, focuses strictly on the Microsoft Sync product. The paragraph that was

added to the page draws the user into navigating through the website. I was resourceful with the use of Photoshop

Elements. I also showed strength with the text revision and the graphical component of the page.

Fixing Fliers 5-6 The artifact revision shows my depth as a technical writer. It demonstrates elegance by simplifying the design of the

flyer. I removed the busy image elements, included the organization’s values, and included a slogan that I found on

another flyer for Student Involvement. This revision also exhibits resourcefulness, by gathering information from a

variety of sources. It also displays how I can adapt to my environment, just like water.

Describing OpenOffice.org 7-8 Product descriptions are crucial to successfully marketing and advertising a product or service. A creative, balanced

and complete description of a product or service, can give it that extra edge over the competition. This revision

demonstrates my ability to creatively reformat information in a manner that is balanced in composition, and also

portrays a product accurately.

Coding Elegance 9-10 This artifact revision demonstrates my ability to use my knowledge of computer programming, to appropriately

document and revise a program’s source code. This revision demonstrates my ability to synthesize very technical

information, in a very accessible way. It displays elegance, consistency and completeness.

Kathy’s Place for Hope (Group Work) 11-14 This compilation of revisions includes two pages from a local non-profit’s website. The information that was

gathered for these works shows resourcefulness and strength. Successful completion of the project required

organizing a group of three individuals, researching a non-profit organization, meeting with the non-profit, and

revising the website text. While the final products are a collaborative effort; elements such as organization, design

and the editing of the documents were my responsibility. I also produced the “Our Philosophy” section on the

“About Us” page. The final products are complete. They also exhibit balance and elegance, both in their designs

and content.

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Ryan Dorn Technical Communicator

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: (614) 551-7422

Creative.Consistent.Concise.Complete

Computer Science and Technology



Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422





Phone: (614) 551-7422



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Managing Microsoft’s Website Revision

Title: Sync Your Life With Microsoft

Clickables: For Home | For Work | For IT Pros | For Developers

Product Description:

Why Sync?

Microsoft Sync is revolutionizing the way that people live their lives, from smart calendars to car audio,

Sync does it all. Let Sync simplify your data, so that you can do the things that make you…you. Try any

one of Microsoft’s new innovative Sync products today!

Ryan Dorn Technical Communicator Emphasis in Computer Science and Technology

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Describing OpenOffice.org Revision

After more than twenty years of development, OpenOffice.org provides its users with the most

comprehensive and intuitive, open-source office application suite on the market today. Whether a

person is creating, editing, sorting, designing, or presenting information; OpenOffice.org has a solution

for their needs. It also integrates seamlessly with other competitive products, allowing users to read and

write files in various popular formats. In addition, OpenOffice.org is completely free, and has no

licensing fees. It is maintained and developed by a global community of volunteers, and offers

multilingual support.

Applications included with OpenOffice.org are:

Writer – A word processor capable of writing all types of documents, from simple letters to complex

books.

Calc – A versatile spreadsheet application that can calculate, analyze, and present data with informative

graphics and numerical reports.

Impress- Present like a professional with this multimedia presentation creator.

Draw- Make simple diagrams and dynamic 3D illustrations easily.

Base- Create and manipulate tables, forms, queries, and reports with this powerful database application.

Math- Make mathematical equations by entering formulas into the equation editor or by using the sleek

graphical user interface.

Success is what happens when intelligence meets design, and OpenOffice.org is no exception. This

versatile, elegant, and powerful application suite is perfect for everyone from students to government

officials.

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Coding Elegance: Sample Code Revision #include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#define INITIAL 1 //A constant value used to start a loop counter.

#define KILO_CONVERSION 1.6093 /*A constant value that acts as a miles to kilometers

conversion factor.*/

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

//Variable declarations that act as containers for information.

int count, miles, numConversions, increment;

/*Function prototypes that act as a variable declarations. They tell the complier to

expect a function that excepts two intergers. */

int conversions(int, int);

float milesToKm(int);

//This block of code welcomes a user, and then asks how many conversions to make.

printf("Welcome to the miles to kilometers converter!!!!\n\n");

printf("Please enter the total number of conversions to make...\n");

scanf("%d", &numConversions);

//User input that sets the number of miles variable, and the increment variable.

printf("Please enter the number of miles...\n");

scanf("%d", &miles);

printf("Please enter the increment between each mile...\n");

scanf("%d", &increment);

printf("\n");

/*Loop that starts at the constant INITITAL value and executes to the numConversions

limit set by the user. The loop counter increases by one each time the loop is executed.

The output is the initial miles and its kilometer equivalent. This will print the

conversion incremented and re-evaluated, until the counter exceeds the user defined input

“numConversions”. */

for ( count = INITIAL; count <= numConversions; count ++)

{

printf("%d miles is equivalent to %5.2f kilometers!\n", miles,

milesToKm(miles));

miles = conversions(increment, miles);

}

printf("\n");

system("PAUSE");

return 0;

}

/*A function that automatically increments the next value that the milesToKm() function accepts,

based on the increment value, and the miles value that the user sets. */

int conversions(int increment, int miles)

{

int nextVal;

nextVal = increment + miles;

return nextVal;

}

/*A function that accepts the user inputed miles, and returns the kilometer value.*/

float milesToKm(int miles)

{

float kilometers;

kilometers = miles * KILO_CONVERSION;

return kilometers;

}

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About Us Revision

Mission Statement

At Kathy’s Place for Hope, we are determined to provide a safe place to assist grieving children after the

death of a loved one, and to help whole families to communicate through the pain. With our joint

efforts, we help transform these affected families through the grieving process and give them a new

appreciation for life.

Our Objectives

To provide a safe place for children to understand emotion, thoughts, and memories

To encourage a community where sharing grief is welcomed and appreciated

To help create intimate communications between all members of the family

To give caregivers a way to connect with other others in similar situations struggling to care for a grieving child, while grieving themselves

To allow everyone to grieve in their own way

Our Philosophy

After the loss of a loved one, each member of the family goes through the bereavement

process. At Kathy’s Place for Hope, we believe the best way through the bereavement process

after the loss of a loved one is to be surrounded by a strong, loving support system. With this in

mind, we have designed a program to remember loved ones while being transformed through

the healing process. The program is led by trained volunteers who focus on the child’s

perspective and finding ways to increase communication, particularly by interacting in groups.

By encouraging group communication, the children realize that they are not alone in dealing

with grief. This helps them reach a better place of understanding and acceptance. It is through

the understanding and acceptance of loss, that the children are freed from their cocoons of

grief and transformed like butterflies.

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Describing OpenOffice.org

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Why OpenOffice.org?

OpenOffice.org is synonymous with quality

the roots of OpenOffice.org go back twenty years, creating a mature and powerful product

hundreds of thousands of users participated in the beta testing of version 2

independent reviewers around the world have recommended the product

with a fully open development process, OpenOffice.org has nothing to hide- the product stands

or falls on its reputation

OpenOffice.org is easy to use

the software looks and feels familiar and is instantly usable by anyone who has used a

competitive product

it’s easy to change to OpenOffice.org – the software reads all major competitors’ files

few language barriers – if it’s not yet available in your language, the chances are it will be soon

OpenOffice.org is supported by a global community of friendly volunteers, only too happy to

provide assistance to newcomers and advanced users alike

OpenOffice.org is free software

you may download OpenOffice.org completely free of any license fees

install it on as many pc’s as you would like

use it for any purpose – private, educational, government and administrative, commercial…

pass copies on free of charge to family, friends, students, employees, etc…

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Ryan C. Dorn Email: [email protected]

6112 Cognac Cir Cell: (614) 551-7422 Lutz, Florida 33558

Key Skills: Technology background, technical writing background, creativity, sales, training, leadership,

customer service, point of sale, problem resolution, inventory, quality assurance, audit.

Work History:

Kathy’s Place for Hope Marketing and Website Design Volunteer (2/12-Present) At Kathy’s Place for Hope I am a member of a team that is responsible for revising their website, producing advertising copies and writing informational documents. While volunteering I have revised mission statements, informational pages, and written proposals. During my time there I have also lead meetings regarding website design and search optimization procedures.

Journey’s Sales Team Associate (2/11-Present) At Journey’s I was responsible for sales, returns, inventory, store marketing displays and overall customer satisfaction. I also maintained a weekly sales quota and was the top-ranked sales producer. Other duties that I performed were cashiering, audits, bank deposits, opening/closing procedures, weekly sales recap paperwork and customer service related functions.

Golf Club of Dublin

Banquet Staff/Food Service/ Event Photographer (06/09 - 08/10) At the Golf Club of Dublin, I was responsible for excellent customer service. I helped coordinate corporate outings, fundraisers and wedding receptions. I frequently helped in the kitchen as well. On select occasions, I helped photograph events for our customers. I’ve also produced photographs for an advertising brochure to help market the club.

Central Ohio Youth Ice Hockey Officials’ Association

Ice Hockey Official (08/06 – 5/08) As an ice hockey official, I was required to take yearly certification exams, attend monthly staff meetings and participate in skills and conflict-resolution seminars. I was also responsible for teaching youth (ages 5-15) how to properly play the sport of ice hockey. This involved being professional, having leadership qualities, making tough decisions, possessing conflict-resolution skills, knowing the rule book, having situational awareness, keeping everyone safe and being able to communicate effectively with children and adults.

Education:

University of South Florida

Year: Junior Major: Computer Engineering Minor: Spanish

Hillsborough Community College (Dean’s List, G.P.A: 3.4) Years Attended: 2 Degree: A.A. in Computer Science

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Welcome Page Revision

KATHY’S PLACE FOR HOPE: a center for grieving children exists to bring hope when it’s needed

the most. Our community of trained professionals provides grief services to children and

families who have lost a loved one.

Get Involved

We are a volunteer-based agency, and rely solely on support - whether time or financial - from the

community to provide our resources to families in need. Some of the programs we offer families are:

Bi-monthly group meetings

Program Night

Summer camp

Fitness Saturday

Magical Day of Giving at Westshore Mall

These activities require time and money in order to function. As a result, anybody who is able to

contribute their time, or make a donation to Kathy’s Place for Hope is greatly appreciated.

For additional information regarding volunteering opportunities, or making a donation, please contact:

Dr. Jean Mulloy

Founder, Board of Directors

[email protected]

[email protected]

813-877-1111

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Managing Microsoft’s Website

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Headers: Products, Windows, Office, Buy, Downloads, Solutions, Security, Support, About

Possibilities - Stay in sync with help from Microsoft technology. See how->

I want to:

Secure my PC

Download a free flying game

Get PC themes and more

Top Products

Most Popular|Windows|Office|Xbox|Windows Phone|Windows Live|Bing

Mobile Mouse 3500 Artist Series - Celebrate your person style with a unique, artist-designed wireless mouse.

It’s Here! The Nokia Lumia 900 – Get an amazing balance of speed, power, and size with this Windows Phone.

Microsoft Office 2010 – Get the tools you need to complete projects more efficiently.

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About Us Page

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While staff members are volunteer based, they adhere to professional standards. These standards are

similar to those used for medical privacy. For instance, information about you or your children will be

kept confidential.

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