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Week One:
 
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Due Before Next Class:
- Readings: Anderson's Chapter One, and Kramer & Bernhardt
- Writing: Short Written Assignment 1 (or "SWA 1"), the Email Correspondence
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Due Before Next Class:
- Readings: Anderson's Chapter Two, and Project 1 descriptions
- Writing: SWA 2, which is a "Reading Response"
Week Two:
On Deck:
- Discussions:
- Responding to your Responses and Wiki-Workspaces
- Crafting Resume's and Cover Letters with a "Reader-Centered" Approach
- Class Work:
- Analyzing Job postings, Internship or Co-Op postings
- Analyzing, Revising, and Re-Designing your C.V.
- Drafting your Cover Letter
Due Next Class:
- Drafts of the three components of Project 1
- Uploaded copy of the Job-Posting you selected to your roster page
- Uploaded well-formatted draft of your resume (in PDF or WORD file) to your roster page
- Uploaded draft of your cover letter
On Deck:
- Exploring, Sharing, and Designing Professional Webpage and Career Portfolios
Due Next Class:
- A Link on your personal Wiki/Roster Page to the First Draft of your Professional Webpage and Career Portfolio, with:
- an image,
- your uploaded resume draft,
- your uploaded cover letter draft
- three links to institutions, organizations, or businesses with which you are involved so that a potential employer can more easily research your credentials
- and new webpages for posting links to our future projects: two, three and four.
Week Three:
On Deck:
Due Next Class:
On Deck:
Due:
- SWA 3 due tomorrow at noon (your phase 4 workshop memo)
- Final Project One linked in the appropriate: Project Drop-off before Monday at 11:59pm
- After browsing the list of requested topics on Wiki-How (and possibly requesting your own), post three ideas for Project 2 posted on your roster page
Week Four:
 
On Deck:
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Discussion of what makes project two good
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Discussion of what's due this week
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Three Rounds of Practice with instruction sets
Due Next Class:
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Read: Ch. 14 “Creating Reader-Centered Graphics” and Ch. 16 “Designing Reader-Centered Pages and Documents” inTC.
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Read: How to Contribute to WikiHow
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Read: How to Format a WikiHow Article
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On your Roster, create "'X's Project 2 Planning Guide" (see Feb 3 for requirements)
On Deck:
- Review Winning (and Losing) Practice Instruction Sets
- Share instructions discuss potential collaborations.
- Instruction Set Draft Workshop
Due Next Class:
- Finished First Draft of Project 2 on WikiHow
- Bring one image or graphic (or as many as you like) and be ready for a brief workshop on graphics and ethics
Week Five:
On Deck:
- Discussion/Troubleshooting Wikihow
- Graphics Workshop/Challenge
Due Next Class:
- Finished Draft of your WikiHow article (with images)
 
On Deck:
- Collaborative Revision Workshop for our finished drafts of P2
Due Next Class:
- Read: Chapter 18 "How to Test Your Draft's Usefulness"
- Read: Project 2 (especially sections B and C) description again
- Write: Short Writing Assignment 4, (SWA 4)
Week Six:
On Deck:
- Review and Discuss our Assignment Prompt
- Discuss Your Usability Test Plans
- Look at samples
- Use your Plan to Prepare:
- your usability test (with "procedures" and "script")
- your data collection artifact
- Recruit test readers and be recruited (you will need at least two tests, but both do not have to be users from this class)
Due Next Class:
- Your Usability Test and Data Collection Artifact
On Deck:
- review test procedures and facilitation style
- perform usability testing
Due Next Class:
- Bring the results of all your test to class (your 'data collection artifacts')
Week Seven:
On Deck:
- General discussion about (and immediate nostalgia for) the usability tests
- Review Project 2 C prompt (the memo/report on your usability testing) (ALL PROJECT 2 MATERIAL DUE FRIDAY)
- Writing Workshop
Due Next Class:
- Read Chapters 24, 25, and 26 (p. 483-559)
- Be prepared to discuss these generally and figure out how to apply these 3 report genres to community, organizational, or technical problems
On Deck:
- Discuss and Review a well-executed example of the Project 2 Memo Report
- Begin Building the 99 Problems Page "Technical Report Exigencies Wiki" or The "99 Tech-Writing Problems" Wiki
Due Tomorrow:
Due Next Class:
- A brief presentation of your team's "5 exigencies" (Note:you will have an additional 20 minutes next class to prepare)
Week Eight:
On Deck:
- 5 minute review of goals and the (adjusted) stasis procedure
- 20-30 minutes to prepare your pitches, and post them on the 99 problems page
- your pitches
- your re-commitment to three potential ideas/teams
Due Next Class:
- Read:
- Write: SWA 5 (Due Next Class) Two or three paragraphs with your answer to the following prompts:
- After reviewing all the current ideas for project three, what are your top three current choices for a project and why?
- After reading the two pieces on "Teaming" and the challenges for Professional/Technical writing projects, how do you think each articleoffers: (1) arguments about the exigence or relevance for effective and critically aware team-writing, and (2) several strategies that you think would help you manage a team?
 
On Deck:
- Brief Discussion of More Pitches for Project 3 + Responding to your Responses
- Team Formation:
- Introductions
- Initial Project Goals discussed + Drafted
- Initial Roles and Collaborations discussed
- Starting Project 3 (see what's due)
Due Next Class:
- Your Team Reads Anderson's Chapter Three + Rereads relevant Chapter on your Genre(s) for your Report
- Your Team Uses Chpt 3 to complete a draft of Project 3 (A), Step One and Two
Week Nine:
On Deck:
- Team Meeting One: Reviewing and Revising Steps One and Two of the Plan
Due:
 
On Deck:
- Team Meeting Two:
- Where? During Class-Time Thursday in the Undergraduate Library (that's where I'll be mainly), or in Purdy Kresgy
- What? Team works on first drafts of Step 3 and Step 4 of your Plan, specifically following the prompts in the Assignment Description.
Week Ten:
On Deck:
- Welcome Back!
- Final Team Meeting Before Plan is Due...
- Meetings Respond to General and Specific Feedback
- Finish (or plan how to finish) your written plan with revision and peer review processes.
Due Wednesday or Friday?
On Deck:
- Searching and Researching Methods: In Theory and In Practice
- TWO SETS OF TEAM TASKS:
- One: Prioritizing Primary Research
- Two: The Secondary Research Hour
Due:
Week Eleven:
 
On Deck:
- Discussion Strategies
- Drafting Strategies (Deploying Superstructures, Descriptive Outlines, and Stubs)
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On Deck:
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Tips on Finishing your Methods section
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Rounding out your descriptive outline -- with emphasis on starting drafts of your evaluations
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Have Coach review your Primary Research tools
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Due Next Class:
Week Twelve:
On Deck:
1) The SuperStructure and "Machinery" of a Complex Feasibility Study
2) The SuperStructure and "Machinery" for our Feasibility studies: http://fstudysuperstructure.pbworks.com/
3) For Feasibility Studies, Co-Writing Your Evaluation and "Results" Sections
4) For Proposals, The Co-Writing of Your Objectives, Problem and Solution Sections
On Deck:
- 10 Minute Survey Sprint
- Visualizing Results
Week Thirteen
On Deck:
Due Next Class:
- Bring several copies of your draft (including some hard-copies) for peer review
- Evaluation of our Reports: Peer Review
- Introducing Common Editing Procedures for Technical Communication
Week Fourteen
On Deck:
- Brief review of final revision work
- Initiate Editing Commitments
- Introduce and Discuss Final Memo Writing
On Deck:
- SETS
- Final Team Meeting
- Performance Peer Review (some co-authoring and Revision Work)
Week Fifteen
Tuesday April 28: University Study Day (No Class)
Wednesday April 29:
- Minor Revisions to Professional Webpage due
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