(Be alert! Schedule changes WILL occur! I will announce any in class.)

 WEEK ONE

1/14     Course Introduction

Defining Technical Communication/In-class Activities

1/16     Basic Rhetorical Analysis

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 1

  

WEEK TWO

1/21      Basic Rhetorical Analysis, Continued

1/23      Intro to Assignment 1: Job Application Packet

Writing Resumes

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 15

Writing Due: Current Resume

 

WEEK THREE

1/28    Resumes/Planning Worksheets

            Due: Copy of Job Descriptions

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 8

1/30    Blog Workshop, Guest Speaker ITS

 

WEEK FOUR

2/4   Introduce Assignment 2: Professional Blog

Writing Cover Letters

2/6    Blog Workshop

Writing Correspondence: Letters, Memos and Emails

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 14

Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK FIVE

2/11      Introduce Assignment 6: Redesign E-Portfolio

Draft Workshop

Writing Due: JAP – Rough Drafts of Resumes, Cover Letters and Cover Memo

2/13   Introduce Assignment 3: Technical Definition and Description

            Writing Due: Assignment 1 – Job Application Packet

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK SIX

2/18    Technical Definition and Description

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 20 (First half of chapter: Writing Definitions and Writing Descriptions)

 2/20    Organizing Information

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 7

             Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK SEVEN

2/25   Writing Coherent Documents

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 9

2/27   What does your font say about you?

Writing Effective Sentences

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 10

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK EIGHT

3/4  Draft Workshop

Writing Due: Rough Drafts of Technical Definition and                                                                                                                              Description

3/6  Introduction to Assignment 4: Instruction Sets

Writing Due: Assignment 3 – Technical Definition and                                                                          Description

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK NINE

3/11 SPRING BREAK

3/13 SPRING BREAK

WEEK TEN

3/18  Writing and Evaluating Instructions

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 20 (Second half of Chapter:                                                                                                              Writing Instructions)

3/20  Graphics

               Reading Due: Markel Chapter 12

               Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK ELEVEN

3/25     Introduction to Assignment 5: Instructional Videos

Assign Video Groups and Topics

Designing Documents

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 11

          

3/27     Reviewing, Analyzing and Testing Documents and Websites

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 13

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK TWELVE

4/1  Usability Tests

Writing Due: Rough Draft of Instruction Set   

4/3   Usability Tests

Draft Workshop

Writing Due: Rough Draft of Instruction Set

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

 WEEK THIRTEEN

4/8    E-Portfolio Workshop

           Writing Due: Assignment 4 Instruction Set

4/10   Video Workshop

Guest Speaker, Digital Commons, W140 Pattee Library

Instructional Video Review

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK FOURTEEN

4/15  Writing Ethically

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 2

 

4/17   Creating Video Concepts

Using Creative Commons Resources for Videos

Draft Workshop: E-Portfolio

  Writing Due: FINAL SUBMISSION Professional  Blog     (by Wednesday midnight)         

WEEK FIFTEEN

4/22    Conferences

4/24    Conferences

WEEK SIXTEEN

4/29   Video Presentations/Awards Ceremony

            Due: Instructional Videos

 5/1  E-Portfolio Workshop

Course Evaluations

Wrap-Up

Writing Due: Assignment 6 E-Portfolio (by midnight Friday, May 2)