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For Project 2, our class
will function as a consulting firm whose goal is to serve clients
interested in one of the following: revising or developing print materials; developing
a power point presentation; or writing a grant proposal. Your team
will be working with an actual business or organization in the community
or at Purdue.
Project summary
After each person proposes
a potential client project for which you will receive an individual
grade worth 10% of your course grade, you will be asked to select
your top five project choices. You will be assigned to a team.
First, you will confirm the client's interest in your project and
present your team goals to the client. You will conduct field research
to assess further the client's needs. Once you have completed your
team's initial research, you will prepare and present an oral progress
report addressed to our class. Based upon feedback on your oral
progress report, your team will draft a report addressed to your
client. Following feedback on your team's first draft, your team
will revise and polish the written report and submit it
for evaluation. Your team will also provide a copy of your
final report to your client and a sample of any print material you
recommend.
Project goals
Writing in Context
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Analyze professional cultures, social contexts, and audiences to determine how they shape the various purposes and forms of workplace writing, such as persuasion, organizational communication, and public discourse, with an emphasis on
- writing for a range of defined audiences and stakeholders
- negotiating the ethical dimensions of workplace communication
Project Management
Research
Understand and use various research methods to produce professional documents, including
- analyzing professional contexts
- locating, evaluating, and using print and online information selectively for particular audiences and purposes
- triangulating sources of evidence
- selecting appropriate primary research methods, such as interviews, observations, focus groups, and surveys to collect data
- working ethically with research participants
Technology
Use and evaluate the writing technologies frequently used in the workplace, such as emailing, instant messaging, image editing, video editing, presentation design and delivery, HTML editing, Web browsing, content management, and desktop publishing technologies
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Deliverables
Step 1: Community
Project Proposal
Following the client criteria and the project proposal suggestions
presented in class, you will contact and gain
commitments from a potential client. You will write a project
proposal. Your written proposals are due for presentation to the
class and in written form on Oct. 29.(10% of your individual
course grade).
Step 2: Client Confirmation
Memo
After you select a project from the project proposals and are
assigned to a project team, you will individually and collectively
establish goals for the project in accordance with the proposal
assigned. ( Only four or five proposals will be selected.) You
will write a memo to the client confirming their participation,
clarifying goals, and providing contact information. You must
submit the memo to me prior to sending it to your client. You
must complete Step 2 by Nov 5. (10% of your collaborative
project grade)
Step 3: Annotated Bibliography
Your team will identify four secondary resources that will support your design decisions for the product you are developing. You will share the resources with other teams. The bibliography is due Wed. Nov. 19. (10% or the project grade)
Step 4: Oral Progress
Report and Memo on Client Field Research
Your team will plan and conduct field research on your client context.
Your team will conduct at least one interview with the client and collect documents if available. Any team member not attending the client interview must do an observation and send me a summary.
Your team will submit a memo discussing the interview (indicate
the members who attended), summarizing any individual observations, summarizing all the research conducted to date, and reporting what tasks remain. Your team will
give an informal oral summary of the memo to the class on, and will submit
the printed memo of your progress by the end of the class
on Nov 21. ( 20% of your collaborative project grade)
Step 5: Written Report
After delivering your oral progress report, your team will draft
its Written report addressed to your client. You will have
a draft prepared for peer review on Dec. 3. Your team will submit
to me a written draft in print form by the end of class on Dec. 5. I will return your draft on Monday, Dec. 8, for final
revisions. The final written report and product are due in print
to me and to your client by Dec. 12. You will
provide a cover memo for your client copy. (30% of your collaborative Project 3 grade)
Steps four and five will be sent to the client together.
Step
6: Final Product
A copy of your final product(s) and written instructions on how to maintain or change the product. For example, If you are creating
or revising a brochure, you must provide your client with a print sample of the document and an electronic copy with print instructions. If you are creating a power point, you should provide a print copy and an electronic copy with instructions on how to change the slides. Due Dec. 12. (30% of your collaborative Project 3 grade)
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Resources: on calendar
Grading
The individual Community Writing Proposal (Step
1) is 10% of your course grade.
The Community Writing Project Collaborative grade
is worth 40% of your course grade. The breakdown for each of its
components is as follows:
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Step 2: Client Confirmation Memo |
10 % |
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Step 3: Oral & Written Progress Memo |
20% |
| Step 4: Annotated Bibliography |
10% |
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Step 5: Written Process Report and Client
Memo |
30% |
| Step 6: Product Created for the Client and Instructions |
30% |
Project Collaborative Total |
100% |
Grading Criteria
When I assign a grade to your project, I will measure your work
against the models discussed in class and will pay particular attention
to see whether your team has effectively adapted the documents to
your client's needs. As always, the writing will need to be precise,
accurate, and well-suited to that context and to the rhetorical
problems you faced in this case. I will also use your collaborative
project evaluation form to determine individual grades.
Revision
Because the final draft of the report is due at the end of the
semester, you will not have the opportunity to revise after receiving
a grade. However, you're invited to submit a draft to me for review
at any time during the project and are required to submit at least
one draft on .
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