Writing for business and professions/Readings and activities/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
https://he.kendallhunt.com/blog/six-p%E2%80%99s-importance-real-world-significance-professional-writing
 * Introduction to course / Review Syllabus
 * Read and discuss a recent blog post Bill Magrino wrote for Kendall Hunt:
 * 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
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
 * Ian Parker, “Absolute PowerPoint,” pages 61-69
 * Assignment: Write a coherent paragraph in response to question 3 on p. 69 (everyone).


 * 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