April 27, 2017:  Your proposals are due next class.  Presentations will begin at that time.

Take home final exam due Thursday, May 4.  The final exam is posted on the blog.  For Peer Review today:  Download the peer review from blog and save on desktop or your own device.  Answer each section and then forward the document to your peer by email.

April 20, 2017:  Discussion and PowerPoint on how to Create Reader-Centered Graphics.  Exercise: Create your schedule chart using one of the instructions on the blog for a Gantt chart or in an alternative method which you already are comfortable with.  ANC:  Peer Review for Proposal


Class Presentations will be May 2 and May 5, 2017.  You may want to discuss with your fellow students what day you would like to present and in what order.  I am still looking at instructions and will talk to each group about them on April 18, 2017.

Peer review for proposals will be April 25, 2017.

Our final exam is going to be a take home exam.  It is already on the blog as Final Exam: Progress Report. We will discuss this today as well.

April 18, 2017:  Class Workshop.  Work in class on writing your proposal.  ANC:  Read Chapter 12 and browse Chapter 13.

April 13, 2017:  Review Unit 4 Prompt.  Review Proposal Writing.  Peer Review for Unit 4: April 25, 2017.  The writing task for Major Project 4 is to compose a project proposal to address one of the following issues:

(1) the issue you addressed in your unsolicited letter for Unit 3; or

(2) the Exercise that we have looked at during our review of Chapter 7 and 8.  Assume that the problem with the software and/or instructions cannot be determined without taking further action than just meeting with you, Susan, John, and Josh.  Write a Proposal as to what steps should be taken to get to the root of the problem.

ANC: Read Chapter 5

April 8, 2017:  Review Chapter 8.

April 6, 2017. Review Ch. 7.  Class Exercise.  ANC: Read Ch. 8

April 4, 2017:  Discuss Unit 5.  Group Meetings.  ANC: Read Chapter 7

March 30, 2017:  Peer Review

March 28, 2017:  Lesson:  How to Persuade  ANC:  Draft of Unsolicited Letter for Peer Review

March 23, 2017:  Class Cancelled as room not available.  No homework for next class except what was due this class.

March 21, 2017:  Introduce Unit 3 Prompt.  Workshop to wrap up Unit 2 Instructions.  ANC: Turn in your instructions.  Choose your topic for your unsolicited letter.  Reach Ch. 3.

March 9:  Group work on instructions.

March 7, 2017:  PowerPoint for Class:  Defining Your Objectives.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k0bWe6cTa7d8GWJcquB7WGvrfkCQHmgnuZDqz0_qR_s/edit?usp=sharing

ANC:  Be prepared to meet and wrap up your instruction preparation for your group project.

March 2, 2017:  Review the rest of Chapter 3.  Be ready to think about examples and problems that will face you while writing in the workplace in terms of what the chapter asks you to think about.

February 28, 2017:  Discuss Unit 2 Prompt.  Choose groups.  Discuss what instructions you would like to write.