ENGL 307 | Jenna Pack!

Daily Schedule
Please note that this schedule is likely to change. Keep up with course emails and course announcements to ensure that you are aware of any updates to the syllabus. All changes to the daily schedule will be announced in class and updated on the course website.
All readings listed below will be available on D2L. In addition, your required text is abbreviated as AMA. Please note that your

textbook is a handbook.You are responsible for using appropriate punctuation, spelling, etc. Thus, if you have concerns, use your textbook to explore any particulate issues. I will sprinkle some readings throughout the course, resulting in a nal quiz. So, take notes!
Date Class Meeting For Next Class Meeting

1.9

1. Introductions 2. Review of syllabus and course policies 3. Introduction to Assignment 1: Memo in Context

1. Read Workplace Communications pp. 2-14, The Keys to Successful Communication: Purpose, Audience, and Tone 1. Read John Fieldens What Do You Mean You Dont Like My Style? 2. Read the Purdue OWL Parts of a Memo and Format (see links on course website) 1. Complete Memo in Contextdue 11.23 by class-time on D2L Dropbox 2. Read Assignment Sheet 2: Job Analysis Materials (on course website)

1.14

1. Brief lesson on rhetoric & rhetorical situation 2. Audience stylistic activity 3. Read and discuss Writing: A Ticket to Workor a Ticket Out: A Survey of Business Leaders

1.16

1. Memos: Formatexamine sample memos 2. Concision exercise 3. Passive versus active voice 4. Myers-Briggs Personality Test & interview speeddating

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Class Meeting No Class: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Memo in Context Due

For Next Class Meeting No classcontinue homework listed above for 1.16

1.21 1.23

1. Introduction to Assignment 2: Job Analysis Materials 2. Lesson: Finding credible job ads and elements of an eective resume (Sections of Your Resume)

1. Search for job advertisements for job analysis materials project 2. Read John Munschauers Writing Resumes and Letters in the Language of Employers 1. Send emails of inquiry to potential clients and CC me; when you receive a positive response, send me the contact information 2. Read Workplace Communications pp. 158-161, Application Letters 3. Read 6 Secrets to Writing a Great Cover Letter Forbes.com

1.28

1. Introduction to Client Projects: Discussion of soliciting clients 2. Group time to discuss potential clients 3. Lesson: Rhetorical Resumes & From Student to Professional ResumesHow To Say it On Your Resume pp. 243-260 & Frequent Job Changers 4. Group activity: Writing eective resumesadvice from experts: Susan Adams, Jerome Young, Forbes

1.30

1. Lesson plan: curriculum vitae and cover letters 2. Discuss writing eective emails

1. Work on job analysis materials project--cover letters and print resumes. 2. Read Workplace Communications pp. 264-279 Ten Strategies to Improve Your Style 3. Read AMA Any, Either, Any, Some, Ensure, Assure, Insure, Bulleted List, and Dangling Modiers

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Class Meeting

For Next Class Meeting

2.4

1. Fine-tuning resumes and cover letters: stylistics 2. Intro to Design: Examine sections from White Space is Not Your Enemy by Kim Golombisky & Rebecca Hagen--Typography and Color 3. Practice working with Weebly and/or Wix

1. Read What Experienced Collaborators Have to Say About Collaborative Writing by Nancy Allen, Dianne Atkinson, Meg Morgan, Teresa Moore, and Craig Snow 2. Start working on web resume

2.6

1. Group planning: How to Deal with Collaborative Issues 2. Interview questions: How to prepare for the client interview 3. Potential for working on follow-up email in class

1. Send follow-up email to client (ask for interview, thank them for participating, provide deadlines) 2. Prepare interview questions for client interview; client interview should occur between now and 2.19; interview transcription due 2.20 by class-time in D2L Dropbox 3. Continue working on web resume and other job analysis materials 1. Continue working on job analysis materials 2. Read Layout Sins from White Space is Not Your Enemy 1. Complete Job Analysis Materials project and upload all items to D2L Dropbox by class-time on 2.18

2.11

1. Lesson plan: Visual Design 2. In-class workshopping of job analysis materials

2.13

1. Lesson Plan: Visual Design contd if needed 2. Discuss any concerns with client interviews 3. In-class peer review of job analysis materials

2.18

Job Analysis Materials Due

1. Sign up for proposal conferences 2. Lesson Plan: Proposals--Needs Statements and Plan & Progress Checks

1. Interview transcription due to Dropbox 2.20 2. Begin work on client proposal

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Class Meeting Interview Transcription Due

For Next Class Meeting

2.20

1. Lesson Plan: Proposals--Budgets 2. Examine sample student proposals

1. Continue working on client proposal 2. Read the follow sections of your textbook (AMA): Adverbs to Avoid, Aect, Eect, and the whole section on Commas 1. Prepare a complete draft of the client proposal to bring to your proposal conference. Bring two paper copies to the conference. 1. Read in AMA Dash, Discreet, Discrete, Due to the fact that, e.g., i.e., Less, Fewer, and Dollars and Cents 2. Revise proposals based on conferences

2.25

1. In-class work on client proposals

2.27

1. Proposal conferences (class canceled--instead, meet me in the back of CCTR room 236 for your scheduled conference.)

3.4

1. Proposal peer review 2. Review assignment sheet for client deliverable

1. Complete client proposal: Email to client and CC me by class-time on 3.6 2. Peer and Self Evaluations are also due to D2L on 3.6

3.6

Client Proposal Due

1. Class activity: PSA design project

1. Read Conciseness, Variety, and Emphasis and Parallelism in Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age 2. Read Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design for Writers in Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age

3.11 & 3.13

No Class: Spring Break

No Class: Spring Break

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Class Meeting

For Next Class Meeting

3.18

1. Discuss Creative Commons and nding images you can legally use in deliverables 2. Visual Rhetoric lesson

1. Make any necessary revisions to proposal and start working on client deliverable 2. Read AMA If, When, Whether, Irregular Spelling, Lists, and Parallel Construction 1. Read Johnson & Sheehans Oral Presentations 2. Continue working on client deliverable

3.20

1. In-class work on client deliverables

3.25

1. Lesson: Eective oral presentations 2. Watch Alex Risters Five Rules for Creating Eective Visuals

1. Continue working on client deliverable 2. Read AMA Per, Regard, Regards, Conjunctive Adverbs, and Tables 3. Study all notes from AMA readings to prepare for Refresher Game and for nal quiz on 4.17

3.27

1. AMA Refresher Game 2. In-class work on deliverable

1. Work on OPR 2. Work on deliverable 1. OPR due 4.3

4.1

1. In-class work on OPRs 2. Introduction to nal portfolio assignment

4.3 4.8

OPR presentations begin today OPR presentations continued

1. Read AMA Degree Titles, etc., and Numbers or Words 1. Begin working on nal portfolio; conduct mock interview by 4.22 2. Begin research for mock interview 3. Peer and Self Evaluations are due to D2L on 4.15

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Class Meeting

For Next Class Meeting

4.10

1. Lesson: Interview skills 2. In-class workshopping on deliverables

1. Finish client deliverable and email to Jenna by 4.15 for feedback 2. Complete mock interview by 4.22 1. Study for AMA Final Quiz 2. Complete mock interview by 4.22 1. Complete any necessary revisions to client deliverable and email to client & me by 4.22 2. Complete Peer & Self Evaluation for client deliverable project by 4.22 1. Once you receive feedback from your client on the nal deliverable, you have until 5.1 to make any necessary revisions. This will count as part of your nal portfolio. 1. Make any necessary revisions to deliverable 2. Work on nal portfolio

4.15

Final draft of client deliverable due to Jenna for revision feedback

1. Stylistics: Rening your cover letter and resume 4.17

AMA Final Quiz

1. Revisions to nal deliverable 2. Design: Rening your web resume

4.22

Final draft of client deliverable due to client & CC Jenna Peer & Self Evaluation due

4.24

1. Workshopping nal portfolio materials

4.29

1. Workshopping nal portfolio materials

1. Make any necessary revisions to deliverable 2. Work on nal portfolio

5.1

Final Portfolio Due

Last day of classes

1. Last day of class!

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