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In this seminar-style course you will engage decentered approaches to technical and professional communication, including electronic collaboration, small group evaluation, and individual synthesis of technical documentation. You will use a standard technical writing textbook as your source of information -- and as the object of your criticism. Individually and in small groups you will implement state-of-the-profession heuristic and writing stragegies designed to improve your knowledge of the forms and theory of professional writing. The majority of your grade will be based on an exit project.
Grading Rubric:
Broadly defined, your grade for this course will be determined as follows:
Class Participation and Small Group Work: 20%
Drafts and Intermediate Presentations: 20%
Web Page Analyses and Other Exercises: 20%
Final Presentation Project: 40%
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Types & Purposes of Web Pages |
Printable Web Evaluation Form |
Sample Web Sites |
Exit Project:
Your Exit Project constitutes 40% of your grade for this course. The project will:
Use PowerPoint and (optional) Internet materials
Be presented orally, using the classroom LCD display
Engage the materials discussed in lectures, developed in small groups, and derived from lectures
Constitute a coherent product presentation, no less than 8 and no more than 10 minutes in length
Reside on a CD-R, CD-RW, or floppy disk (you will turn this in at the end of term) -- you may present from materials stored on your student server space; however, you will need to transfer these materials to portable media.
You may choose from two tracks for content:
Textbook Revision: You may form your presentation around the critique of sections of your textbook -- the sections you have been assigned for other work in this course.
Independent Development of Materials: If you have a technical/professional writing project "in the works," you may form your presentation around that work (after obtaining your instructor's approval)
Textbook:
Pearsall, Thomas E, Donald H. Cunningham, and Elizabeth O. Smith. How to Write for the World of Work, 6th ed. Boston: Thompson Learning, 2000. ISBN 0-15-507903-4
Instructor Information:
Dr. D.E. Haley
106 Burleson Hall
423-439-5991
haleyd@mail.etsu.edu