ENGL 2116 sec. 083 Syllabus (2020)
Assignments
Canvas Access
WEEK 1
May 18th: Introduction to the class
May 19th: Critical Technological Awareness
May 20th: Audience, Purpose, and General Introduction
May 21st: Résumé Stuff (bad, better, alternative)
***Don’t forget the extra résumé reading here (for NEXT CLASS )
Very interesting resume
WEEK 2
May 25th: Memorial Day–No Class (just review)
Revising Prose Reading (pdf)–read for May 26th
May 26th: Plain Language and Prose Revision
Résumés and Cover Letters DUE
May 27th: More on Revising Prose
May 28th: Review Prose Revisions
Next Week: Technology in a Social Context (pdf)–read for next week
WEEK 3
June 1st: Effective Documents for Users
Prose Revisions DUE
June 2nd: Final Project and Research Discussion
June 3rd: Technology in a Social Context
Set of Instructions DUE
Midterm Preview–Prose Revisions
June 4th: Midterm Exam (open on Canvas 8:00 am-11:00 pm; one hour and thirty minutes to do it once you start)
WEEK 4
June 8th: Information Design
I, Robot Essay Topics
June 9th: Proposals, Marketing, and Rhetoric
June 10th: I, Robot Discussion
June 11th: More I, Robot and Science Fiction in a Technical Communication context Discussion
I, Robot essay Due
WEEK 5
June 15th: Ethics and Perspective Discussion
Proposal, Visual, and Annotated Bibliography DUE
Read Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” on Canvas
June 16th: More on Ethics
June 17th: Portfolios
Ethical Dilemmas DUE
June 18th: Presentations–please do Canvas Survey
Portfolios DUE
WEEK 6
June 22nd: Presentations
June 23rd: Final Exam (open on Canvas 8:00 am-11:00 pm; two and a half hours to do it once you start)