Dates
M, 8/29
W, 8/31
Readings
In class
What is professional writing? What does it mean at this point in your career? What is rhetoric and why does it matter in the workplace?
Intro to the Onboarding Unit and Google Sites/Forms. Also a quick discussion of the content and format for the digital bio.
Watch and take notes on Helvetica (2009). Consider how the film presents a rhetorical analysis of typeface; extend that analysis to workplace writing.
Upcoming deadlines*
W, Aug 31:
Post your digital bio to our course site and comment on at least 3 bios
F, Sept. 2:
Post your survey to Google Forms
No class
M, Sept. 12:
Post a memo to class summarizing survey results.
W, Sept. 14 :
Email Tech Briefing proposal to Santosh
M, Sept. 19:
Claim letter
W, Sept. 21:
Editing test
Post job ad to course site
W, Sept. 28:
Cover letter (hint: visit the Writing Center)
W, Sept. 28:
Cover letter
M, 9/5
W, 9/07
pp 5-10 (“Characteristics of workplace writing”)
Chapter 3: Defining Your Communication’s Objectives: Purpose, Reader, Context
Labor Day
Chapter 8: Drafting Paragraphs, Sections, and Chapters.
Chapter 14: Designing Reader-Centered Pages and Documents
Chapter 4: Planning for Usability.
Chapter 23: Writing Reader-Centered Proposals
Chapter 5: Planning your persuasive strategies
Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts
Chapter 9: Developing an Effective Style
Chapter 2: Overview of the Reader-Centered Communication Process: Obtaining a Job
Chapter 22: Letters/Memos
Chapter 27: Writing Instructions
M, 9/12
W, 9/14
M, 9/19
W, 9/21
M, 9/26
No class
MEET IN HBC 227
Revise bios, complete surveys, and look at Tech Briefing assignment.
Discuss Helvetica and document design. What does it tell us about the purposes, audiences, and various cultures that produce and read these fonts? What should we think about as we gear up for our Tech Briefing?
Audience analysis. View survey results and discuss how they will affect usability of Tech Briefings.
Discuss proposals.
Letters, tone, and persuasion.
Prioritizing revisions.
Drafting a reader-centered cover letter.
Tech Briefing #1
Designing instructions