Topics

Required Reading

Bring to Class

Two Week Holiday Break�No Classes

Week 5

Mon. Jan. 7

Literature reviews

 �Literature reviews� (308)

Tues. Jan. 8

Project Management

Meeting Minutes

Thurs. Jan. 10

Team meeting: document planning and organization

Fri. Jan. 11

Profiling audiences and contexts: the engineering workplace

Collaborative Writing

�Second Readings on Sustainability and Engineering� 

 Meeting Minutes #1 due

Week 6

Mon.  Jan. 14

Peer Review

Bring Draft of Literature Review

Tues. Jan. 15

 Proposals

Email & Project Correspondence

�Proposals� (412)

Thurs. Jan. 17

Audience accommodation: text

Readings on plasma TV (ANGEL)

Literature Review Due 

Fri. Jan. 18

Audience accommodation: visuals

Fundamental Principles of Analytical Design� (ANGEL)

�Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign� (ANGEL

 Meeting Minutes #2 due

Week 7

Mon. Jan. 21

Attend convocation speaker

Discuss speech in class

Tues. Jan. 22

Audience accommodation: visuals

Compiling individuals� work

 

Draft of Technology Analysis Due

Thurs. Jan. 24

No class-Conferences on Drafts

Fri. Jan. 25

Peer Review

Bring draft

Meeting Minutes #3 due

Week 8

Mon. Jan. 28

Local information resources

Personnel Evaluation

Tues. Jan. 29

Presentations

�Presentations� (389)

Technology Analysis Due

Thurs. Jan. 31

 Class cancelled for viewing of An Inconvenient Truth (location and time TBA)

Fri.  Feb. 1

Analyzing technical/rhetorical acts: An Inconvenient Truth

Meeting Minutes #4 due

Week 9

Mon.  Feb. 4

Elevator Talks

Tues.  Feb. 5

Team meeting: poster presentation

Thurs. Feb. 7

Team Poster Presentations

Team Poster Due

Fri.  Feb. 8

Team Poster Presentations

Week 10

Mon.  Feb. 11

Analysis of local discourse communities (video, letters to editor)

Draft of Needs and Implementation Analysis Due

Tues.  Feb. 12

No class�Conferences on Draft

Thurs. Feb. 14

Workshop/Peer Review

Bring draft

Fri.  Feb. 15

Learning objectives

Course evaluations

Needs and Implementation Analysis Due

Week 1

Mon.  Nov. 26

Introduction to Technical Communication

Concept and Skills Inventory

Tues. Nov. 27

The rhetorical triangle
The rhetorical appeals
Discourse communities

�Memos� (325)

Thurs. Nov. 29

Source documentation and avoiding plagiarism

�Documenting sources: IEEE documentation� (143)

�Quotations� (444)

Fri.  Nov. 30

Researching companies

Matching qualifications to job ads

�Researching employers: how and why� (ANGEL)

Bring job advertisement that interests you to class

Week 2

Mon. Dec. 3

Designing and revising r�sum�

�R�sum�s� (473)

Job analysis memo due

Tues. Dec. 4

Application Letters

Considering global dimensions

�Application Letters� (38)

 Thurs. Dec. 6

Expert r�sum� review by Ventures project managers

Teaming questionnaire due

Fri.  Dec. 7

Peer Review

Bring draft of r�sum� and application letter to class

Week 3

Mon.  Dec. 10

Begin looking at company mission statements

In-class work on annotations

Bring mission statement of company to which you are applying to class

Tues. Dec. 11

Sustainability Project:  Request for Proposals

Assigning of groups

Topic Proposal Memos

Company mission statements
Company logos and names

�Request for proposals� (455)

Annotated r�sum�, application letter, job ad due

Thurs. Dec. 13

Guest Speaker on Sustainability

�Initial Readings on Sustainability and Engineering� (ANGEL)

Fri.  Dec. 14

Logan Library Resources

Librarian visit

Types of sources

�Research: evaluating sources� (467)

�Bibliographies� (51)

Week 4

Mon. Dec. 17

Tues. Dec. 18

Exigence and kairos

Literature Review

Local Sustainability Issues (ANGEL)

Thurs. Dec. 20

Definition
Description
Process explanation

 �Defining terms� (120)

�Definition method of development� (121)

�Description� (124)

�Process explanation� (401)

Fri. Dec. 21

No class meeting