engl 534: theories and methods of teaching technical and professional writing

 

Week 1 Aug. 20 Introduction to class; review of syllabus and schedule; academic honesty policy; Peeples: Introduction and Part 1 (skip Regli article p. 71-80)
Week 2 Aug. 27 Finish Peeples (skip Kostelnick, and Chapter 8--all); Journal Review assignment
  Sept. 3 Labor Day; No class
Week 3 Sept. 10 Latour to p. 159; Peeples paper due
Week 4 Sept. 17 Finish Latour
Additional session Sept. 20

Journal Review Presentations; 5:30 pm in the Bundy

Week 5 Sept. 24 Kostelnick and Hassett Chapters 1-3;Final Project assignment reviewed; short paper on Latour due
Week 6 Oct. 1 Finish Kostelnick and Hassett; Ball/Arola (Review how you might use this CD in class and base at least part of that review on what you have learned from Kostelnick and Hassett. This two/three-page review will replace the double-entry journal for last chapters of K&H)
Week 7 Oct. 8 Warren; short paper on Kostelnick and Hassett due
 Week 8 Oct. 15 Gee; Chapters 1-4
Week 9 Oct. 22 Gee; finish reading; guest Rebecca Goodrich (game assignment)
Additional Session Oct. 25 Textbook Review due--informal presentations and discussion; 5:30 pm; place TBA
 Week 10 Oct. 29

Syllabi and Assignment Review due--informal presentations and discussion; short paper on Gee due

Week 11 Nov. 5

Final Presentations
Jerry Petersen
Amy McDougall

Katie Ericsson
Andy Orr
Tony Dell'Ario
Caitlin Cornell
Katie Allen
Chris Ritter
Rachel Shapiro
Dorothy Worden

Corporate Gibberish Article

 Week 12 Nov. 12 No class; Veteran's Day; Final assignment due this week; date TBA

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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