| Week
1 |
Date |
Class Meeting |
For Next Meeting |
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Tuesday
August 20
|
Introduction to the
course
Review syllabus and course calendar
Introduce the Student Information Sheet
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Make
certain that you have your login and password for accessing ICS
machines (a Career Account) and an email address that accommodates
attachments. If you have questions about your accounts, visit
ENAD 426 from 9-3 during the first two weeks of the semester.
You also can visit the PUCC Instructional
Computing Services web page for information about campus technologies. |
|
Thursday
August 22
|
Send
completed Student Information Sheet as an attachment
Introduce course technologies
Discussion: What is Professional
Writing? |
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| Week
2 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
August 27
|
Introduce and discuss Project
#1 Read and explore career
links for professional writing |
Read Covino and Jolliffe (CP)
Explore Silvae
Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric |
|
Thursday
August 29
|
Introduction and discussion of rhetorical
principles and Silvae
Rhetoricae
|
Read Kennedy (CP)
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| Week
3 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Sept. 3
|
More on rhetorical principles from
Kennedy
Discuss heuristics for Project
#1
|
Read Chapter 1: Information Anxiety in the Internet Age (IA)
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|
Thursday
Sept.
5
|
Introduce Information Anxiety 2
Workshop—researching professional writing contexts
IEEE Professional Communication
International Professional
Communicatin Conference
Searching through THOR
Seaching through databases
By the end of class, print out and submit a list of the
professional resources and documents that you are consulting for
Project #1. |
Read Bitzer, Vatz, and Consigny (CP) |
| Week
4 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Sept. 10
|
Introduction to the Rhetorical Situation
|
Bring
preliminary draft of analytical essay for peer review |
|
Thursday
Sept.
12
|
Finish
discussing and mapping rhetorical situation. In groups, come up
with a diagram that account for Consigny's perspective on the
rhetorical situation.
Review updates to Resources for Careers
in PW page
Preliminary peer review of
analytical essay. |
Read Ong and Myers (CP)
Read Chapter 2: The Business of Understanding (IA)
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| Week
5 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Sept. 17
|
Discuss
theories of audience |
Bring
full draft of analytical essay for peer review |
|
Thursday
Sept.
19
|
Full
peer review of analytical essay
Download and save a copy of the peer review sheet. Type up your
comments on the essay and email them to the writer. |
Read Crowley and
Hawhee (CP)
|
| Week
6 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Sept. 24
|
Discuss
general theories of ethos
Student generated discussion of ethos |
Bring
draft of reflective memo for peer review |
|
Thursday
Sept.
26
|
Review
professional
memo format
Peer review for reflective
memo |
Read all
four articles by Gurak (CP)-- this is a lot of reading for this
week, so be prepared! |
| Week
7 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
October 1
|
More
on ethos in online and professional
contexts
Project #1
due -- turn in the final draft of your relective memo
on top of the final draft of your analytical essay. On the bottom
of the stack, include all previous peer reviews and drafts.
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|
|
Thursday
October 3
|
Introduce
Project #2
Take 5-10 minutes and pull up a website that you like because
of the content. Then pull up a website that you think is really
well designed. We will look at some of these and talk about the
reasons why these sites are attractive.
Resume
Basics from Purdue's Owl
Introducing Dreamweaver
Introducing your home directory
Start brainstroming about what you would like to include on your
site.
|
Read Bush (CP)
Read Chapter 4: An Age of Connections (IA)
|
| Week
8 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
October 8
|
October
Break (No Classes) |
|
|
Thursday
October 10
|
Discuss
Wurman and websites--what are some of the tenets about the web
from Chapter 4 that you can apply to your sites? Remember that
you are selling yourself, in a sense.
Outlining/planning/storyboarding your website:
More on Dreamweaver:
Folder and file management |
Read Taylor (CP) |
| Week
9 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
October 15
|
Complexity
and network theories
Discuss Bush and Taylor--how do these two theories compare at
almost 50 years apart? |
Read Chapter
8: Finding Things (IA) |
|
Thursday
October 17
|
Workshop
on website design
Discuss bad design--some
examples
Images, Copyright, Photoshop |
Read Garrett; Rosenfeld and Morville (CP)
Read Chapter 11: Instructions--The Driver of Conversation (IA)
|
| Week
10 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
October 22
|
Introduce
information architecture and instructions
Looking at architectures: ICS
Help files
Rhetorical Considerations: Tippecanoe
Sheriff's Dept.
Looking at instructions: Setting
up your preferences
Another site on
webdesign you might find interesting (valcasey.com) |
Draft
of project #2 for peer review |
|
Thursday
October 24
|
Work on project #2
Informal peer review of project #2:
Provide 2 or 3 people with the URL for your site--you can send
this via email. Review the site and provide general comments on
the structure of the site, how easy it is to navigate, the content,
the design of the site, etc. Also make sure that all of the files
show up correctly.
|
Read Nielsen
and Buckley (CP)
Read Chapter 7: There is Always a Question (IA)
|
| Week
11 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
October
29
|
Remind
students about evening workshop--7pm
Discuss Project #3
More on information architecture and asking
the right questions
|
Read Chapter 12: Talking on the Job--Seeing Instructions in the
Context of Work (IA)
|
|
Thursday
October 31
|
Form teams for Project #3
In teams, determine what types of information do students need
to know for next semester and the best ways to present that information.
Work on projects during class
|
Read Tufte—Introduction; Images and Quantities (CP) |
| Week
12 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Nov. 5
|
Discuss
Images and Quantities chapter by Edward
Tufte. See list of ET's Graphic
of the Day
Look at four different examples of information architecture at
www.eyearchitect.com
In groups, discuss each visualization of information on the site.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? Describe the rhetorical
contexts under which you think each of these visualizations might
be appropriate. |
Read Chapter
15: You Only Learn Things Relative to Something you Understand (IA) |
|
Thursday
Nov. 7
|
Work
on Project #3 in class
Project #2 due for instructor feedback along with email
message--make sure you send the url of your site in your email. |
Read
Tufte—Layering and Separation; Color and Information (CP) |
| Week
13 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Nov. 12
|
Discuss
color and layout |
Bring
draft of project #3 for peer review
Read Chapter 5: The Structure of Conversation (IA) |
|
Thursday
Nov. 14
|
Workshop—Project #3
|
Read
Barrett and two articles by Lasica (CP) |
| Week
14 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Nov. 19
|
Weblogging
in business and in journalistic contexts
Questions about weblogs
generated by class
Workshop--Project #3 |
Bring
draft of project #3 for peer review |
|
Thursday
Nov. 21
|
Workshop—Project
#3
Remaining teams will present their work. |
|
| Week
15 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Nov. 26
|
No
class! I will be available for help on your web projects during
class time.
Project #3 due electronically
|
|
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Thursday
Nov. 28
|
Thanksgiving
Break (No Classes) |
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| Week
16 |
Date |
Class
Meeting |
For
Next Meeting |
|
Tuesday
Dec. 3
|
Workshop for final portfolio.
Course evaluations |
|
|
Thursday
Dec. 5
|
Workshop
for final portfolio.
Fill out Collaborative
Project Evaluation Form for Project #3.
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Final
Exam Week |
Dec. 14 |
Students will email the class list with a link to their final
portfolios by Saturday, December 14th at 5pm.
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