Class Schedule
(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)
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