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Special "Google Day" Assignments

Part I :: Sharing and Revising Proposal "Problem Section" Drafts

Everyone is to create a wiki page, linked off your home wiki page, entitled "Context Genre Analysis Proposal Problem Section" :: Trade feedback with a classmate on these. They can add their feedback directly to your page -- but they obviously need to label the feedback with their name. You have options of how to do this--you can add a narrative comment below their draft, sectioning off with a horizontal line--but you can also add your comments inside the text, so long as you put it inside square brackets, a traditional way of marking editorial comments, like so [This is a sample]

Part II :: Beginning the Airbag Case

Read the Case Documents: Description, Customer Letter, Rude Response Letter. These are located inside the Handouts link on our class website.
Do some research online
Write up a planning document, briefly analyzing the situation and what you need to do
Write a first draft of your new Customer Response Letter

Week :: Context-Genre Analysis--First looks at Contexts and "Writing" Research (cont'd)

For Tuesday: Read White Sands, in eReserves. Do the usual reading write-up, plus 3 things that surprise you, and 3 things that don't, from the reading.

We will be discussing what it means to do research on writing, and a fun genre exercise.

For Thursday: Proposal Drafts--

Last Week :: Creative Rhetoric Scenario--Developing Analyses, more HTML, and Invention's Role in Rhetoric & Knowledge (cont'd)

For Tuesday: Drafts of the analysis sections--in class we will group-develop the goals and sections of the analysis, discuss narrative patterns, claims, argument, etc. We will also go over adding/modifying sections of the template--explaining how the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) work.

Group Work:

For Thursday: Full drafts ready for peer review.

Week 7 :: Creative Rhetoric Scenario, and Invention's Role in Rhetoric & Knowledge

Reading: Regli, Inventio, in Peeples

Key Questions --

What is knowledge?
How can we describe it?
What is the role of rhetoric and technical communication in its creation and dissemination?
What is the expertise of technical communicators?

Developing Creative Rhetoric Scenarios

So far we have: chosen dialog partners, done initial dialog planning, begun intros to speech/dialect/register conventions between participants, done initial dialogs, begun learning html, file types, different text programs, uploading and downloading, process of editing, viewing, saving, uploading files.

For Tuesday: Dialogue plans more developed--what are your goals? Strategies/tactics to meet them? Versions of Introduction and Dialogues incorporated into HTML templates and posted to people.emich accounts. If you're having difficulty uploading/using/understanding SFTP software (PC-Filezilla, Mac-Fugu), or other issues in the process, be sure to email the files to yourself so you can work on them from the classroom.

For Thursday: Be prepared with a passage of dialog that: 1) illustrates features of speech and relationship, and 2) illustrates strategy for reaching rhetorical goals, and then segue to discussion of what knowledge is, how CRSs represent different facets/aspects of these questions.