Extra Credit Map Exercise:

For this extra-credit exercise, please study the four maps below (apologies: the first image is very large). You will receive all four as blanks on Friday, but you will only have to choose one blank to fill in to potentially receive one point of extra credit (on top of what you've earned already, if you earned any points). Now, I am not going to ask you to fill in all of the nations on the map you choose, but you will need to fill in the ones I ask you to find.

I also want you to alert yourself to the actual relevance of an exercise such as this to our Technical Writing course. We did study "intercultural" communication -- remember the images we examined that could be innocuous in one culture and offensive in another? If you are working as a part of an international research team in the future, and you don't know the geographic location or region of another off-site team, then, that could be offensive and problematic. Also, it is important to be aware that many of the fields you all are pursuing have definite international impact; you can surely realize this on the basis of the fact that our faculty here at NMT and our student body are both very "international." Also, as one of our groups this semester revealed to us so well, maps themselves are pieces of technical communication!

So, please give these maps a look and try to commit to memory the locations of some of the nations you see.