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WEEK
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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1
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Course Syllabus and Introduction to Technical Writing
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Grammar Pretest and Diagnostic Writing.(Bring to class Scantron 882 and #2 Pencil)
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2
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Select research project for the course.
The objectives, nature, and style of technical writing.
Audience profiling and participation
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Library Instruction
Assignment: Library Modules
Discuss library lecture: abstracts, indexes, instructions
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3
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Writing Professional Memos
Newsletter Positions Selected
Yahoo Group Developed
Gantt Chart & Organizational Chart
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Euro Vita analysis
Interviewing Techniques
Personal Statements
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4
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Sentence style analysis
Job listing analysis
Résumé, letter of application
Thank you letters
Final report topics
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Initial Memo Proposal for final project (E-mail assignment)
Proposal: Background Section (Literature Reviews)
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5
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Sentence style: punctuation
Avoiding Passive Sentences
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An approach to technical writing tasks.
Writing proposals: Request for Proposals or RFPs
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6
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Proposals:
Proposals. Problem identification and solving.
Objectives and approach in writing proposals.
Proposal objective section
**Assignment: Progress Report on preliminary research
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Proposals: background section/level of technology
Proposal: objective section
Paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources.
Avoiding plagiarism.
Writing abstracts/summaries
Methods sections
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7
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Definitions//audience, paragraphs, key terms
Scientific Method vs. Marketing Research
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Proposals: Format and Structure
Creating Scientific Graphics
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8
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Proposal: Layout
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Proposal: Continued
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9
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Final Reports and analysis
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Feasibility Reports
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10
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Description of a mechanism (in-class assignment).
Definitions and descriptions
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Description of a mechanism (in-class assignment).
Due at end of class.
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11
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Completion reports, objectives, and approach.
Analyzing information
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Usability Reports
More on graphics.
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12
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Section of final report
Analyzing information.
Format
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Sentence style analysis
Progress report II
Final reports
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13
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Style.
Elements of the final report
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Final report introductions (revising the proposal sections that fit in the final report)
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14
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Oral presentations and PPT rules
Work on elements of final report: front matter
Editing the final report
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Final reports: end matter
Criteria for evaluating the final report
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15
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Class Wrap-up
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Post Grammar Test and Writing Diagnostic
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16
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Poster Presentations and Mini-Conference (no absences permitted)
Newsletter Due
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