Report on a MTSC Internship at a Medical Device Company

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Title: Report on a MTSC Internship at a Medical Device Company
Authors: Cagley, Laura Marie
Committee Members: Durack, Katherine
Summary: This four-chapter report describes the work I completed as a technical writer intern at a medicaldevice company during the spring of 2007. It provides an overview of the company organization; anoverview of my role and the projects I worked on at the company; a detailed description of aninstruction manual I created for a contracted on-site replacement and diagnostic service for a medicaltesting system as my major writing project; and an analysis of the internship experience thatcompares the expectations I had from my classroom training in technical communication and thereality of the job functions of a technical writer at a medical device company.
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1259680980
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Abstract:This four-chapter report describes the work I completed as a technical writer intern at a medicaldevice company during the spring of 2007. It provides an overview of the company organization; anoverview of my role and the projects I worked on at the company; a detailed description of aninstruction manual I created for a contracted on-site replacement and diagnostic service for a medicaltesting system as my major writing project; and an analysis of the internship experience thatcompares the expectations I had from my classroom training in technical communication and thereality of the job functions of a technical writer at a medical device company.