(1) Choose a piece of technical communication to analyze.

(2) Evaluate your chosen document for usability. This will involve reading the document carefully, paying attention to the features that enable use. In other words, how did the author structure the document so that readers could access and use the information effectively and efficiently?

(3) Write a memo to me that organizes your rhetorical analysis in both a logical and convincing way.

•Be concrete in your analysis. Use examples from the document as you make your key points.

•Be sure to analyze and not just describe the document. This will require you to evaluate—and pass judgment on—both content and design.

Format

You will then present your analysis in a memo to me, using the memo format described in your textbook. Your analysis should be two single-spaced pages (approximately 1,000 words).

Evaluation Criteria

I will evaluate the analyses according to the following criteria:

•Completeness. The analysis addresses the six characteristics of technical communication from Chapter 1.

•Organization. The analysis is well organized. It has a clear structure supported by headings.

•Support. The analysis is concrete in that it uses examples from the document to support major points.

•Interpretation. The analysis interprets, analyzes, passes judgment—it does not just describe.

SUBJECT: Technical Document for Sports Specific Analysis

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an established international body that educates, develops anti-doping capacities, carries out scientific researches, and reviews the World Anti-Doping Code. To ensure that Anti-Doping Organizations implement suitable anti-doping programs, the WADA mission provides that the use, analysis, and acceptance of restricted substances and methods is appropriate and accurate across all disciplines. That is actualized through the WADA Technical Document for Sport Specific Analysis, a provision that offers logical, pathetic, and ethical standings of WADA towards sports. These appeals are drawn from the normal human tendency and experience through sporting and scientific research. Further, the provision structures are offered in a manner that targets gain acceptance of expressed ideas.

Usability

Making digital records accessible is the most straightforward and most effective approach to doing scientific research, instructions, and other textual information provided to target bodies more accessible. TDSSA by WADA assumes a great mechanism to make it easy for readers to access and apply the information. Their responsibility to create or produce a reader-friendly publication has extended to their layout, elements organization, and designs of word choice. The WADA TDSSA is well structured from the title, heading, subheadings, font, line spacing, and interactive elements. WADA Technical Document for Sports Specific Analysis is a standalone title or unit that appropriately represents the entire content in simple terms.

In addition, the document employs headings and subheadings such as introduction, objectives, scope, and various sports disciplines. These sections help the reader break down the entire record into chunks to understand and locate specific areas of interest. Further, the font coloring of the document connotates the most essential and critical details of the provision, which may prompt the reader to seek more information on the topic. However, the excessive application of red coloring confuses color-coding, especially for an individual with a visual impairment spectrum. Also, the document has an unbalanced use of text and whitespace. Some of the writings have texts squeezed on whitespace while others are canceled inappropriately, making its readability difficult. Use tables play a central role in enhancing the comprehension of what a document explains and compare data. However, the constant repetition of the same table throughout the TDSSA document makes it unnecessary and confusing to the reader every time they scroll a new page. Generally, the document's structure, design, and organization are unsuitable for individuals with readability issues due to a constant underlying, cancellation, and unnecessary repetitions.

Technical communication analysis

WADA Technical Document for Sports Specific Analysis employs the various features of technical communication and misrepresents others. First and foremost, as much as World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) provides information for the general public on the usage, analysis, and acceptance of prohibited substances and techniques, it's more directed to the sporting disciplines and organizations. In their provision, WADA states that in consultation with other international agencies and anti-doping groups, their requirements through the Technical Document aims at establishing risk assessment means for abuse of prohibited substances specifically to the sport disciplines. Further, they developed these guidelines are mandatory compliance to the directed groups, that is, sports.

 Secondly, TDSSA's objectives are crystal clear on the intends to help the target group and the general public in solving the problem. The documents outline that it aims at protecting clean athletes through maintenance of well-reasoned substance proportionate through criteria that apply to all ADOS. Further, it informs the ADOs on the best practices for testing and analyzing the prohibited substances and methods.  However, the scope of coverage is limited to athletes' levels and banned substances and methods. Logically, WADA strongly recommends installing the ABP hematological module to sports and other disciplines whose ESAs’ MLA is 15 percent. These levels are meant to solve problems for clean athletes and enhance the accountability of the involved agencies and organizations.

Thirdly, the criteria through which WADA TDSSA represents the agency’s and partnering organization’s goals and culture reflect their ethical standings. The promotion of the prohibition on various substances and methods for testing and analysis aims at protecting clean athletes from misrepresentation. Once the ADO completes the risk assessment exercise, the proper MLA is applied to determine the number of tests and analyses needed to prohibit the substances. Typically, these prescriptions are an ethos representation of the clean athletes and other relevant sports disciplines. Fourthly, the TDSSA is a collaborative document produced by various organizations and agencies towards a common goal. WADA collaborates with other organizations such as Anti-Doping Organizations, International Federations, and International Standards for Testing and Investigations (ISTI). These organizations work closely to implement, analyze, monitor, and evaluate the various provisions included in the Technical Document for Sports Specific Analysis. Further, according to WADA, the development of TDSSA incorporates the diverse physiological demands of the athletes and sports disciplines. The collaboration promotes the publication of a comprehensive regulation document.

Typically, a technical communication document must employ designs that promote readability and ease of usage. TDSSA partially applies these features with an illogical structure of the details. The title is self-explanatory and gives an instant glimpse of what it all entails. However, the document sub-sections are poorly designed and aligned. For instance, the athlete levels, Sports and disciplines, and test plans are irregularly outlined. Also, part of the information on hematological models and test implementations is repeated in a substantial amount of the document. Finally, the paper uses more words and fewer graphics. The WADA and partnering organizations in the sports arena employ publications in word form to ask sports and sports disciplines to support their appeals to the standard protection of the innocent and clean athletes. These are pathetic pleas that these agencies and organizations in collaboration with federations have championed. The logical, ethical, and sad representation of the TDSSA defines a typical technical communication criterion for WADA.

In conclusion, WADA TDSSA is a comprehensive representation of the various technical communication appeals. The document addresses specific readers that the sports and sports disciplines help them solve the usage and analysis of prohibited substances. Further, it reflects on its agencies' goals and culture of protecting clean athletes. Besides, it’s a collaborative document produced by various organizations and federations promoting the logical appeals of scientific research in sports.