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)