SCHEDULE FOR ENC 2210
INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Spring Semester 2004
Professor Smith
This schedule is tentative and may be changed.
Week One
BCI
Policies
Language Competence Pre-Test
Introduction of Textbook
Using Bullets
Using Hyphens
Revision One
SECTION ONE: RESUMES AND JOB APPLICATION LETTERS
Week Two
Chapter One: Communication, Your Career and This Book
Online
Case: Selecting the Right Forklift Truck
Chapter Two: Overview of the Reader-Centered Communication Process: Obtaining a Job
Expertise 2 & 3
Case: Advising Patricia
Revision Two
Week Three
DUE: Draft 1 of Resume (Project 1)
DUE: Draft 1 of Job Application Letter (Project 1)
Web Quiz 2
Read Appendix A: Formats for Letters
Chapter Ten (section on Selecting Words)
Chapter Thirteen (section on Checking Drafts)
Scan Ch. 14 & 22
Revision Three
SECTION TWO: INSTRUCTIONS
Week Four
DUE: Final copies of Resume and Job Application Letter (Project 1)
Chapter Three: Defining Your Communication's Objectives
Web Quiz 3
Ex: Expertise 1
Ethics
Case: Announcing the Smoking Ban
Chapter Four: Planning for Usability
Web Quiz 4
Ex: Expertise
Online
Collaboration
Chapter Twenty-Two: Instructions
Read Reference Guide: Six Patterns for Organizing p. 189
Planning Guide for Instructions (Website)
Appendix C: Project 6
Revision Five
Week Five
DUE: Draft 1 of Planning Guide for Instructions (Project 6)
Quiz on Chapter Three (Website)
Chapter Eleven: Creating Reader-Centered Graphics
Expertise
Reference Guide: Thirteen Types of Graphics, p. 291
Chapter Twelve: Designing Pages and Screens
Web Quiz 12
Expertise 2
Collaboration
Chapter Twenty: Reports
pp. 503-514 Feasibility Reports
pp. 514-532 Progress Reports
Appendix C: Project 9 and Project 10
Revision Six
Week Six
DUE: Final draft of Instructions (Project 6)
Web Quiz 11
Chapter Fourteen: Testing Drafts for Usability and Persuasiveness
Expertise 1
Chapter Ten: Creating an Effective Style
(section on constructing sentences)
Expertise 2
Chapter Fifteen
Revision Seven
SECTION THREE: UNSOLICITED RECOMMENDATIONS AND TEAM PROJECTS
Week Seven
DUE: Topic for Unsolicited Recommendation (Project 4)
DUE: Worksheet for Defining Objectives
Web Quiz 14
Chapter Five: Planning Your Persuasive Strategies
Collaboration
Chapter Six: Conducting Research
Reference Guide: Five Research Methods, p. 152 (section on interviewing)
Expertise 4 p. 134
Web Quiz 5
Web Quiz 6
Revision Nine
Week Eight
DUE: Draft 1 of Unsolicited Recommendation (Project 4)
Chapter Eight: Beginning a Communication
Chapter Nine: Ending a Communication
Web Quiz 8
Web Quiz 9
Revision Eleven
Week Nine
DUE: Final draft of Unsolicited Recommendation (Project 4)
DUE: Expertise 4, p. 134k
Chapter Ten: Creating an Effective Style
Sections on Creating Voice and Selecting Words)
Re-do Expertise 2, p. 259
Collaboration p. 260
Chapter Eighteen: Creating Communications with a Team
Collaboration 2, p. 434
Chapter Seventeen: Creating and Delivering Oral Presentations
Web Quiz 17
Begin Project 13 (Power Point presentation)
SECTION FOUR: PROPOSALS
Week Ten
Chapter Twenty-one: Proposals
In-class Writing: Reflection on Project 4
Read Reference Guide: Three Types of Special Reports, p. 474
Letter of Transmittal (pp. 598-602)
Read Reference Guide: Five Research Methods, p. 135
Web Quiz 18
Week Eleven
Chapter Eleven: Creating Reader-Centered Graphics
Section on presenting numerical data (Guidelines 3 & 4)
Appendix A & B
Project 9 Outline and Rough Draft
Week Twelve
DUE: Draft of Opening, Outline, and List of Possible Sources for Project 10
Chapter Nineteen: Managing Client and Service-Learning Projects
Web Quiz 19
SECTION FIVE: REPORTS AND PORTFOLIOS
Week Thirteen
DUE: Progress Report (Project 9)
DUE: Project 13 (Group Power Point Presentation)
Week Fourteen
DUE: First Full Draft of Project 10
Begin preparing for Portfolio Presentations
Week Fifteen
DUE: Final Draft of Project 10
Presentation of Portfolios
Week Sixteen
Language Competence Post-Test
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