ENGL3450 Blog

 Hi everyone, I plan to make a handful of revisions for my final proposal. Instead of specifying content analysis I will focus on document analysis with some example from self-usability testing. I will revise the introduction to give examples and circle it back to the research I plan on conducting. My literature review also had a view instances of no page numbers that I will go back and add. I want to itterate that I will be focusing on 5 guides, 3 for one game and 2 for the other. This will allow me to discuss the document analysis in a more in depth approach. This is a minor revision because I was initially going to do 3 guides from 2 games, but ended up only finding 2 for one of them. Overall, these are the revisions I plan on doing in my final draft of the proposal.

My resarch topic/question is what can make a video game guide more enhanced and effective. There is not a lot of information on this topic directly but there is some that can be easily related. Many of the articles I have already reseatched contain information about how a video game tutorial can be made and how they can be applied to most games. These concepts can relate to my topic on how to enhance guides because they sort of share the same principles. The knowledge gap specifically is there are no articles about what can make a video game more usable and better for users. My goal in my proposal is to identigy this research and explain why it is important.

 Hello, Currently I have 8 tentative technical writing sources and 2 that are not from technical journals for my literature review.  The source titles are as followed:  Creating Content That Influences People: Considering User Experience and Behavioral Design in Technical Communication User Experience Methods in Research and Practice  Game Design Tactics for Teaching Technical Communication in Online Courses  The Aural-Visual Rhetoric in Video Game Tutorials  KNOWing How to Play: Gamer Knowledges and Knowledge Acquisition The Game of Reading and Writing: How Video Games Reframe Our Understanding of Literacy User-Centered Design as a Foundation for Effective Online Writing Instruction and The thing-power of Ring Fit Adventure as embodied play: Tracing new materialist rhetoric across physical and cultural borders. The two sources that are not from scholarly sources that I will be using are 10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Video Games and an article about Vi...

 Hello everyone! I am looking forward to this semester in ENGL 3450 and believe it will provide a lot of useful information when researching for my capstone thesis Right now I am thinking about using quantitative or mixed methods because they might be the most effective for my research thesis. The topic I am going to focus on is how to make a video game guide more efficient and user friendly. This topic is appealing to me because I am interested in how game guides can vary from each other as well as seeing what techniques they use to offer the most ease to users. Overall, I look forward to exploring this topic further throughout the semester.

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