|
Week |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
|
1 |
8/25
·
Introduction to the course
·
Introductory email
·
Ch 1 (introduction), 5
(audience) |
8/27
·
The research project for the course.
·
The objectives, nature, and style of technical writing.
·
Audience
·
Ch 2 (legal and ethical
issues) |
|
2 |
9/1
·
Audience.
* Assignment: Résumé, letter of application,
thank-you letter.
·
Final report topics
·
Ch 14 (letters), 15 (job
application) |
9/3
à Due: rough draft, résumé
·
Writing letters: tone and style
·
Paragraphs.
·
Punctuation
·
Ch 3
(Writing Process) |
|
3 |
9/8
à Due: rough draft, letter
of application and thank-you letter
·
Sentence style:
punctuation
·
Avoiding Passive
Sentences
·
Pre-proposal
assignment
·
Ch
11 (sentences) |
9/10
èDUE: Résumé, letter
of application, and thank-you letter
ç
·
Punctuation
·
Style analysis. An approach to technical writing tasks.
*Assignment: Library Assignment |
|
4 |
9/15
NO CLASS
·
Ch 6 (research) |
9/17
èDUE: Pre-proposal
for final report (email assignment)
Proposals:
*
Assignment:
Writing proposals: RFPs
Ch 8 (persuasion)
, Ch 16 (proposals)
|
|
5 |
9/22 Proposals:
·
Problem identification and solving
The proposal as a persuasive document
·
Proposal objective section
**Assignment: Progress Report I on preliminary research
·
Ch7 (organization)
Objectives
|
9/24
Proposals:
·
Objectives and approach in writing proposals
à Due: Rough draft,
proposal: objective section
àDue: Rough draft, proposal:
problem section
·
Writing methods sections
·
Paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources. Avoiding
plagiarism.
Writing abstracts/summaries
App A (using sources)
App B (citing sources)
Methods |
|
6 |
9/29
Proposals:
àDue:
Rough draft, proposal: methods section
·
background section/level of technicality
·
Discuss Progress
Report I
Definitions//audience
Ch 9
(definitions pp. 176-187)
|
10/1
Proposals:
·
Some basics on graphics
·
Other sections of the proposal
Definitions//audience
Paragraphs, key terms
Ch 17 (informal
reports)
Definitions
Citing soures/paraphrasing
|
|
7 |
10/6
è Due: Progress Report
ç
|
10/8
·
Proposals
·
Some basics on graphics
à Due: Rough draft,
proposal: background section
|
|
8 |
10/13
à Due: Rough draft,
proposal: all sections
App C (Editing
and proofreading)
|
10/15
èDue: Proposal Final
Draft ç
Sentence style and
wordiness |
|
9 |
10/20
*Description of a mechanism (in-class assignment).
·
Definitions and descriptions
·
*Assignment: Section of final report
*Assignment: Final report
·
Ch 9 (descriptions pp.
187-193) |
10/22
è Due:
Description of a mechanism (in-class assignment).
Ch 18 (formal reports) |
|
10 |
10/27
·
Work on section of final report.
·
Completion reports, objectives, and approach.
·
Analyzing information
·
Ch 10 (coherence)
èProposal
due |
10/29
·
Work on section of final report
·
Analyzing information
·
More on graphics.
|
|
11 |
11/3
àDue: Section of final
report, rough draft
·
Analyzing information.
·
Format
·
Ch 13 (graphics)
Graphics
|
11/5
èDue: Section of final
report ç
·
Sentence style
analysis
·
Progress report II
·
Final reports
Sentence style and
wordiness |
|
12 |
11/10
|
|
11/12
Style check
due
·
Progress report II -- discuss/introduce
·
Sentence style.
·
Elements of the final report
|
|
|
|
13 |
11/17
|
èDue:
Progress report II
ç
·
Final report introductions (revising the proposal
sections that fit in the final report)
·
Work on elements of final report: front
matter
·
Editing the final report |
|
|
19
|
·
Final reports: front matter
·
Criteria for evaluating the final report |
|
no class |
|
|
Fall Break |
Fall Break |
|
14 |
12/1
·
Editing the final report.
àDue: rough draft of
other sections of the final report (optional but encouraged) – by
12/4
·
Conclusions
·
Recommendations
Final Reports:
Front Matter:
letter of transmittal
title page
table of contents
Writing conclusions and
recommendations
|
12/3
Final Reports:
Front Matter:
Abstract
Executive Summary
Comparison of front matter
Criteria for final report
Writing abstracts
Writing Executive Summaries
SAMPLE SYLLABUS-- email the doc to me and the
others in 504-03
|
|
15 |
12/9
è Due: Final Report,
Dec. 9ç |
12/11
No
class |