Assignments

Every class meeting will involve some type of assignment. Out-of-class assignments are due at the beginning of class and in-class assignments are due at the end of class. All assignments (deliverables) are provided on individual class websites.

At the end of the semester, students will submit a semester portfolio that represents all work completed for this course with an end-of-the-semester self-assessment memo that will act as a cover memo for the portfolio and individual activity logs. All assignments must be completed to receive a passing grade in this class.

With the final reflection memo, students should submit all documents written for a class as instructed for a particular class on CD ROM or emailed to me in a zipped folder. It is the student's responsibility to make sure that all digital folders and documents will open and display correctly.

For all classes:

  • Assignments and readings are due on the day they appear on this weekly schedule.
  • I reserve the right to make changes to the weekly schedule when necessary.
  • Late assignments risk losing points.
  • Students deliberately missing a workshop or presentation day will not
    receive an A.

Warning: I generally do not respond to first-year questions such as

How long does this have to be?
As seniors, you should be well aware that a document is as long as it needs to be. If you don't have enough content, it means you haven't done enough research.

Will this be on the quiz?
What do you think?

What do you want?
As seniors, you should know and be able to articulate how the instructor is NOT the audience for a document. Instructors grade your attention to audience. They do not grade how well you guess what they want. If you, as seniors, still think that your audience is the instructor, please bring it up in class so that we can start a discussion.

Information for All Courses

Course Documents

Assessment Guide

Assessment Method

Rhetorical Situation Form

Audience Analysis Worksheet 1-2

Document Evaluation Form

Individual Activity Log Form

Collaborative Activity Log Form

Performance Evaluation Form

Example Documents

Letters

Fact Sheet

Memo

Resources
The resources listed on this page are available for all classess. I continually update these resources.

Chapters

Practices

Rhetorical Situation Analysis

Audience Analysis

Document Evaluation

Writing

Document Design

Web Design

Elements of Technical Communication
Communities of Practice

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