English 365 Syllabus

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Week 1	Monday, August 20. Course introduction and syllabus discussion. Information regarding UCS account. The course home page URL is <http://www.ucs.ull.edu/~jwf7377/index.html>. When you have opened your UCS account, e-mail me using the e-mail link found on the English 365 home page. (If you e-mail me from class, you will have to do so by using the Web Mail Log In).Workshop: Setting up a UCS Account. Wednesday, August 22 . Read Chapter One: An Introduction to Technical Writing of the online manual and the Personal Web Site project page. Basic Home Page. Look at the Sample Home Page and read the Protocols for Creating and Setting up a Basic Home Page. Workshop:
Week 2	Monday, August 27. You must have your UCS account and e-mail set up by today. Read Chapter Two: Purpose and Audience and Chapter Three: Planning of the manual. Workshop: Basic Home Page. Wednesday, August 29. Read Chapter Four: Stylistic Desiderata of the manual. Workshop: The Basics of Technical Writing and Other Works in Progress (OWIP).
Week 3	Monday, September 3: Labor Day Holiday Wednesday, September 5. Basic Home Page checkpoint (preliminary and ungraded).Your home page should be up on the UCS server. If time permits, I will be reviewing each student's Web site in class; if it does not, I will look at them from home. Consider it a work in progress that you can continue to tweak during the semester. Read Chapter Five: Document Design and Layout and Chapter Six: Ethical Responsibilities of the manual.
Week 4	Monday, September 10. Read Chapter Seven: Letter of Application and Résumé of the manual and the Résumé and Letter of Application project page. Workshop: Writing a Letter of Application and Résumé and OWIP. Wednesday, September 12. Read Chapter Eight: Describing a Process of the manual and the Instructions project page.
Week 5	Monday, September 17. Read and print both Appendix I: The Mansuscript (ms) & Camera-Ready (c-r) Formats of the manual and the English 365: Document Submission Requirements. Workshop: Writing Instructions and OWIP. Wednesday, September 19. Checkpoint for Letter of Application and Résumé. You must turn in hard copy of both pages and a copy of the position advertisement at the beginning of the class. A manuscript (ms.) copy of the résumé is not needed; only the camera-ready (c-r) copy. Workshop: Writing Instructions and OWIP. Read Chapter Nine: Proposals and Chapter Ten: Reports of the manual and the Proposal project page.Workshop: Writing Memos, E-mail, and Writing Proposals.
Week 6	Monday, September 24. Checkpoint for Instructions. You must turn in hard copy of your Instructions at the beginning of the class. Also, after you have made appropriate changes (if necessary), be sure to ftp a copy of your camera-ready instructions to your public_html file and put a link to that file on your home page so anyone can download the file. Read the Process Analysis project page. Workshop: Writing a Process Analysis and OWIP. Wednesday, September 26. Checkpoint for Proposal memo. This checkpoint carries no credit points. You must turn in hard copy of your memo at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Writing Process Analyses, Writing Reports, and OWIP.
Week 7	Monday, October 1: Fall Break. Wednesday, October 3. Read Table and Chart project page. Workshop: Writing Reports and OWIP.
Week 8	Monday, October 8. Checkpoint for Process Analysis. Workshop: Table and Chart and OWIP. Workshop: Tables and Charts and OWIP. Wednesday, October 10. Read Chapter 12: Online Publication and Chapter 14: Oral and Visual Presentations of the manual and the PowerPoint Presentation project page. Workshop: PowerPoint and OWIP.
Week 9	Monday, October 15. Checkpoint for Table and Chart. You must turn in hard copy of the Table and Chart at the beginning of the class. Read the Proposal Progress Report project page. Workshop: Progress Report and OWIP. Wednesday, October 17: No class
Week 10	Monday, October 22. Read Chapter Thirteen: Collaborative Writing of the manual and the Brochure project page. Workshop: Brochures. Wednesday, October 24. Checkpoint for Proposal. You must provide hard copy of the Proposal at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Progress Reports and Collaborative Writing (first in-class group meeting).
Week 11	Monday, October 29. Begin PowerPoint Presentations. Checkpoint (half of the class) for PowerPoint Presentations. Mandatory attendance. Wednesday, October 31. PowerPoint Presentations. Checkpoint (half of the class) for PowerPoint Presentations. Mandatory attendance.
Week 12	Monday, November 5. Checkpoint for Proposal Progress Report. You must provide hard copy of the Proposal Progress Report at the beginning of the class. Read Chapter Eleven: Critical Interpretations and Assessments of the manual and the Critical Report project page. Wednesday, November 7. Read the section of the Policy Sheet dealing with the class portfolio.Workshop: collaborative writing.
Week 13	Monday, November 12. Checkpoint for Brochure. You must provide hard copy of the Brochure (one for each group) at the beginning of class.Workshop: Wednesday, November 14. Workshop: Collaborative Writing.
Week 14	Monday, November 19. Checkpoint for Critical Report due. You must provide hard copy of the Report (one for each group) at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Course Portfolio and OWIP. Wednesday, November 21. Workshop: Course Portfolio and OWIP.
Week 15	Monday, November 26. Workshop: Course Portfolio and OWIP Wednesday, November 28. Course portfolio and final examination due. Portfolios, manila envelope containing your marked and graded checkpoint drafts, and your final examination must all be turned in at the beginning of the class. None will be accepted past this deadline. Final checkpoint for Basic Home Page (graded).
Note	The Final Examination for English 365-6 is scheduled for Tuesday, December 4, from 10:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. At any time during those hours, you may retrieve your portfolio amd final examination and get your final course grade at my office (HLG 230).