Fall 2017 one class per week

Weekly Agenda (Randy)

n the first day of class, when you begin looking at the Six P's with your students, it would be a good idea to have

You will likely want to post the link on your Sakai site(s) and have your students access the blog on their personal devices.

Thanks, Bill

Week 1: Sept 6

• Introduction to course / Review Syllabus
• Read and discuss a recent blog post Bill Magrino wrote for Kendall Hunt:

https://he.kendallhunt.com/blog/six-p%E2%80%99s-importance-real-world-significance-professional-writing

• Review Table of Contents - Magrino Book
• Activity: Bio / Google Docs
• Newspaper exercise, p. 7. (handout)
• Friday: pages 1-6

Week 2: Wednesday, Sept 13

• Newspaper exercise, page 7
• Six P’s exercise, page 9
• Friday 1/27 meet in Douglass Library: finding a problem

Week 3: Sept 20

• Cover letter and resume assignment - chapter 3--peer review Tuesday
• Friday 2/3 meet in Douglass Library: research

Week 4: Sept 27

• DUE: Cover letter and resume assignment – final draft
• Chapter 2 Introduction and Thomas Kuhn, “The Essential Tension,” pages 11-22
• Malcolm Gladwell, “Designs for Working,” pages 23-30
• Research and APA format – Chapter 4

Week 5: Oct 4

• Judith Hooper, “A New Germ Theory,” - Handout / pages 31-45
• White paper assignment (1 to 1 1/2 pages) – Chapter 4

Week 6: Oct 11

• Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke, Jr. “Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock,” pages 47-59
• Midterm paper guidelines and samples - Chapter 5

Week 7: Oct 18

• Annotated bibliography, pages 101-103
• Midterm assignment – Chapter 5

Week 8: Oct 25 - THANKSGIVING BREAK

• Ian Parker, “Absolute PowerPoint,” pages 61-69
• Assignment: Write a coherent paragraph in response to question 3 on p. 69 (everyone).

ALSO: Write notes for discussion for one of the following questions for discussion, depending on your "group": GROUP 1: Q1 GROUP 2: Q2 GROUP 3: Q4 GROUP 4: Q5

• THANKSGIVING BREAK - MARCH 23-25 - NO CLASSES

Week 9: Wednesday, Nov 1

• Oral presentation guidelines - Chapter 6
• Video of past oral presentations

Week 10: Nov 8

• Plan for the project proposal and review final proposal samples – Chapter 7

Week 11: Nov 15

• DUE: Oral presentations with peer evaluations
• Peer revision workshops of project proposals (cover letter, title page, abstract, table of contents, table of figures)

Week 12: Nov 22

• DUE: Oral presentations with peer evaluations
• Peer revision workshops of project proposals (introduction, literature review)

Week 13: Nov 29

• DUE: Oral presentations with peer evaluations
• Peer revision workshops for project proposals (plan, budget, discussion)

Week 14: Dec 6

• DUE: Oral presentations with peer evaluations
• Peer revision workshops for project proposals (references, visual aids, appendix)
• DUE: Submit final project proposal at last class meeting