Monday September 30^th 2013 

Chapter 6:  Routine Correspondence: Memos, Letters, E-Mail Messages, Instant Messages, and Text Messages

Wednesday October 2^nd 2013 Chapter 6 continued

InteractiveEditing and Revision Exercises

Letter of Complaint and Adjustment letter

On your own:  Activity 1-15

  

(Activity 1-15 is another work in progress that is be submitted in your portfolio Due November 29th 2013 by 4:00 p.m.)

Friday October 4^th 2013 Quiz Chapter 6

Enjoy your week!

Week 6

I hope you all had a happy Independence Day. 

By now you know that Monday September 23^rd 2013 is not a holiday, so we will be having classes as scheduled.

Monday:

Chapter 16: Short Informal reports

Activities and Exercises:

1.   Writing a Feasibility Report to Improve Your School or Workplace 
2.   Interactive Editing and Revision Exercises

 On your own: Activities and Exercises 

(Activity 1-8 is another work in progress that is be submitted in your portfolio Due November 29th 2013 by 4:00 p.m.)

 

Wednesday: Long Formal Reports

Chapter 17: Research on job opportunities in your career field.

This is your research due November 22^nd 2013 by 4:00 p.m.

Please note the expected Report format 

Interactive Editing and Revision Exercises

Friday:

Quiz Chapter 16 and 17 (The link for the quiz will be live on Wednesday)

Online Quiz

Quiz link

Week 5

Monday 16th September 2013

Provide three job vacancies/listings that you are interested in applying for. Prepare and execute your application package/strategy. This is a work in progress that will be included in your portfolio.

Chapter 7
Building Online Communities Through Blogging, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Virtual World

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Summarizing an Article in Your Field of StudyAssignment to be completed in Wednesday's class: 

Assignment Details Have this ready for class on Wednesday.

Be sure to use the resources below to guide you as you prepare your assignment.

1.  An introduction to summaries

2. STRATEGIES FOR WRITING SUMMARIES

3. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Wednesday 18th September 2013

Chapter 15 Summarizing Technical Communication

Be prepared to discuss the sites (1-3) above.

Friday September 20th 2013: Quiz for Chapter 7 and 15 due by midnight.

Please note that the quiz chapters refer to the 7th Edition.

Enjoy your weekend!

Week 4

Monday September 9th 2013

Chapter 5
Research Proposal topic guidelines

Wednesday
Chapter 14

Friday Quiz on Chapter 5 and 14 due by midnight

Assignment: Read Case Study 2 Part III  and Respond to PB Works Page 4

*****Read below and respond on PBworks week 4

Case Study 2: Is Poor Grammar Acceptable?

Case Study 2: Is Poor Grammar Acceptable, Part I

Your supervisor has assigned you the task of preparing a productivity report for your department on her behalf. You happily do so, carefully prewriting, writing, and revising your report. When you present the report to her for her approval, she tells you to make several grammatical changes prior to distributing it—changes you know are grammatically incorrect and not improvements to the document’s form. Although the report will be distributed with her name listed as the sole author, you are concerned that the errors will make her look foolish and somehow this will reflect poorly upon you in the end. However, she is not interested in your insistence on grammar protocol. What do you do?

Case Study 2: Is Poor Grammar Acceptable, Part II
The scenario is the same as above, with the exception that your name will be listed as author. In spite of the document being authored by you, she is adamant you make her changes. Do you make the changes you don’t wish to make, or do you stand your ground? How could you prove that you are correct? Justify your responses.

Case Study 2: Is Poor Grammar Acceptable, Part III
The scenario is the same as above, with the exception that you made no changes and the document was distributed with your name listed as author. After the errors were brought to your supervisors attention, by upper management, she sent you a memo reprimanding you along with a stern warning. What do you do? Do you stand your ground and explain what happened? How could you prove your story? Justify your responses on PB works week  4. Feel free to contribute to any other posting on the topic. (assist,agree, support, disagree)

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Online Quiz

Good Morning,

A reminder the link for all quizzes will become available on the last day of class for the week. (Wednesday) and it will be removed after the submission deadline. (Friday at Midnight).

The link for this week’s quiz is below:

Please submit all assignment to my gmail account cooperannettebz@gmail.com

Enjoy your day!

Update Week 3 - A must see!

The second movie is from 1980, Nine to Five. The following is the link to watch this movie.  

Nine to Five Movie link

Let’s review your assignment options.

1.       A one page analysis on Office Space as it relates to the objectives from Chapter 1.

2.       A one page comparison between both Movies Nine to five (1980) and Office Space (1999).

Assignment is due Friday September 6^th by midnight. (Yes, that means you got an extension and YES the quiz is also due by midnight the same day!)

 

Format 25%

Content 50%

Grammar/Spelling etc. 25%

September 2nd -6th 2013

Week 3

This week we will use the 1999 movie Office Space to evaluate failing office collaboration, teamwork and group writing. You will observe characters hating their jobs and although it is fictional I am sure you will be able to relate to the experiences portrayed therein. You are to analyse the failures depicted in the movie and using the strategies discussed in chapter 1 create  preventative strategies that could have prevented these situations from occurring.

The movie

Monday: 

Chapter 2 

Wednesday: 

-Chapter 2 continued

-The Movie analysis

-confirm final project

Chapter 2 Online Quiz 2 due Friday September 6th by midnight. All late submissions will receive a 20% grade deduction.

Note that the link for quiz 1 has been removed. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.