Schedule

  CLASS SCHEDULE

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

 WEEK ONE

8/27     Course Introduction

Defining Technical Communication/In-class Activities

8/29     Basic Rhetorical Analysis

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 1

  

WEEK TWO

9/3      Basic Rhetorical Analysis, Continued

9/5      Intro to Assignment 1: Job Application Packet

Writing Resumes

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 15

Writing Due: Current Resume


WEEK THREE

9/10    Resumes/Planning Worksheets

            Due: Copy of Job Descriptions

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 8

9/12    Introduce Assignment 2: Professional Blog

Writing Cover Letters

  WEEK FOUR

9/17   Blog Workshop, Guest Speaker ETS

9/19    Blog Workshop

Introduce Assignment 6: Redesign E-Portfolio

Writing Correspondence: Letters, Memos and Emails

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 14

Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK FIVE

9/24      Writing Correspondence: Letters, Memos and Emails

Introduce Assignment 6: Redesign E-Portfolio

Draft Workshop

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

9/26   Introduce Assignment 3: Technical Definition and Description

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

Writing Due: Assignment 1 – Job Application Packet

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK SIX

10/1    Technical Definition and Description

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

Writing Due: Assignment 1 – Job Application Packet

 10/3    Organizing Information

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 7

             Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK SEVEN

10/8   Writing Coherent Documents

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 9

10/10   What does your font say about you?

Writing Effective Sentences

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 10

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK EIGHT

10/15  Draft Workshop

Writing Due: Rough Drafts of Technical Definition and                                                                                                                              Description

10/17  Introduction to Assignment 4: Instruction Sets

Writing Due: Assignment 3 – Technical Definition and                                                                          Description

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)


WEEK NINE

10/22 Writing and Evaluating Instructions

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

 10/24   Graphics

               Reading Due: Markel Chapter 12

               Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

WEEK TEN

10/29  Introduction to Assignment 5: Instructional Videos

Assign Video Groups and Topics

Designing Documents

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 11

  10/31  Reviewing, Analyzing and Testing Documents and Websites

Reading Due: Markel Chapter 13

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

WEEK ELEVEN

11/5     Usability Tests

Writing Due: Rough Draft of Instruction Set             

11/7     Usability Tests

Draft Workshop

Writing Due: Rough Draft of Instruction Set

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

  

WEEK TWELVE

11/12   E-Portfolio Workshop

           Writing Due: Assignment 4 Instruction Set

11/14   Video Workshop

              Guest Speaker, Digital Commons, W140 Pattee Library

              Instructional Video Review

            Writing Due: Professional Blog (by Sunday midnight)

 

 WEEK THIRTEEN

11/19   Writing Ethically

            Reading Due: Markel Chapter 2

11/21   Creating Video Concepts

Using Creative Commons Resources for Videos

Draft Workshop: E-Portfolio

Writing Due: Professional Blog ( Sunday midnight)

WEEK FOURTEEN

11/26  Thanksgiving Break

11/27  Writing Due: FINAL SUBMISSION Professional  Blog     (by Wednesday midnight)

11/28   Thanksgiving Break

           

WEEK FIFTEEN

12/3    Conferences

12/5    Conferences

WEEK SIXTEEN

12/10   Video Presentations/Awards Ceremony

            Due: Instructional Videos

 12/12  E-Portfolio Workshop

Course Evaluations

Wrap-Up

Writing Due: Rough Draft E-Portfolio

Writing Due: Assignment 6 E-Portfolio (by midnight Friday, Dec. 13)

 

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