Week 1:
Course Introduction; in-class writing on Purchase PWO Workshop on MS Word Formatting, Portfolios, Filenames, on day 1 writing. Read "Rhetoric of the Memo" and "Talking Heads" - Personal Resource Lists Memo genre; Audience, Purpose, and Development; The Buddy McCormick Memos Intro Memo Assignment & Portfolio - Draft IM
Week 2:
IM Peer Critique; Revision/Process Documentation Memos -- THs & Connecting via Concepts, i.e. Vocabulary (ref. Interview Story & Joshua Tree Story) In "Principles," read "Rhetoric:Starting ..." and "Understanding Purpose" Forklift Memo Introduction: Rhetorical Problem Analysis and Information Design In "Principles," read "Understanding Readers" Peer Critique of Forklift Memos Revise FMs and Process Memos
Week 3: Finish FM & on to Airbag Case
Martin Luther King Day - No Class Consider MLK's philosophy & achievements in light of current terrorism Reflecting on Multiple Purposes, Information Design and Audience -- Intro Memo Post-Mortem;
Read "Arranging Information" & first 3 sub-sections Intro to Airbag Case -- Some News clippings: Parma Man Punished - Kids still in Danger - Chrysler found liable Gather Info from Websites- Find out what the regulations are - put together a plan for what your letter needs to do and needed info for class - Read "Building Arguments" and "Writing Instructional Texts"
Week 4: Airbag on to Employment Documents
Compare Initial Plans to Plans from PWO online form
Discuss Instructions & Arranging InformationDraft Airbag Letters "Testing" Airbag Letters Document changes in understanding/assumptions about rhetorical situation Forklift Memo post mortem ; Revise Airbag Letters
Week 5: Employment Documents--Resume & Page Design
Airbag Portfolios Due; Intro to Resume Design - First Run at Purposes, Tasks of a Resume - Individual & Group Reading about Resumes in PWO Basic Common Format -- Get started Drafting Once you have a complete draft, then Read "Non-Designer's Design Book" in E-Reserves - follow link and remember password from class Quick CRAP quiz: Bring Drafts to Class - Design & Organization Layout Workshop
Week 6: Employment Documents--Cover Letter
Week 7: Researching Writing Practices--Personal Tech Writing Research
Begin RWP/UCP phase of course; Proposals Employment Docs Due; Proposals from Anderson - Explaining Concepts for today read "Anderson Ch.19-Proposals" and "White Sands" in E-Reserves Discuss Proposals further - get started with background descriptions, assumptions be ready for White Sands discussion-
Week 8:
Challenger Reading Quiz - UCP Intro - Have Challenger reading done discussion Proposals Due
Week 9:
Week 10
more UCP examples - walking through the process. More keys to good client - access. Gobies Read section on Usability Testing - setting up a test - in PWO UCP proposal workshop - making it persuasive to its 2 audiences - your classmates & me Final RWP Proposals Due - bring Draft UCP Proposals to class Team Selection Day Final UCP Proposals due Thursday night - 6:00 pm
Week 11
Have Gathered Org Purposes - Narrow to a specific audience group you want to test, and a rough idea of the tasks Diagram representing the various audience groups and purposes No class - Prof. B. at conference perform testing & work on RWP individually No class - Prof. B. at conference perform testing & work on RWP individually
Week 12
Narrowing to specific audiences and tasks for UCP - updating rwps group progress and develop rwp Once focus is finalized, draft round 1 tests round 1 testing
RWP context dataRound 2 testing - genre data cont. UCP
RWP Genre Data
Week 13
Presentations - for a good read look at how not to get lynched. Start lining up client dates for yours. Class worktime on testing, uploading RWP sections RWP Analysis Sections: Bring one example to class to discuss. Data should be done. More testing and RWP work.
Week 14
UCP Client Presentations Finishing presentations, writing final reports
Week 15
UCP Client Presentations Finishing presentations, writing final reports UCP Client Presentations Finishing presentations, writing final reports
Week 16