Technological Product Description (demo 2)

By Michael Downing

Background/Context
Articles describing tech products are everywhere.  From the new iPhone to the new Xbox, all you need to do is Google a product to find a description of some kind.  This assignment represents your chance to write a product description so that you can understand everything that goes into it.

Note: This is not a review, so while it’s okay to describe the improvements from one model to another, do not reach definitive conclusions or make subjective assessments.

Assignment

Find at least three articles/descriptions online that are relevant to your product.

Read the articles:  You are looking for such details as pricing, features, upgrades over previous models, target market, availability, certain requirements to operate (when applicable), colors, models, etc.

Write up your article, using the model as a structural guide.  Do not let the model restrict you.  You may have information that I did not include because our products were different.  That’s fine.  If you have questions, please ask.

Note: Don’t sling jargon. You need to know precisely what you are talking about when you are writing about technology.  If you write that your product has MIMO and MU-MIMO at 2.4GHz and 5GHz with 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.11ac, I’ll begin asking you what all that means.   Avoid alphabet soup:  IEEE has told the MMA that the XZY format is no longer applicable.  There is a time and a place for those abbreviations/reference points, but use them sparingly unless you are sure, without a doubt, that you are writing for an audience of electrical engineers/professionals who understand all of those references without fail.

Add value: You should be serving the reader at every turn, providing factual information that they might not have.