English 365 Syllabus

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Week 1	Wednesday, January 13. Course introduction and syllabus discussion. The course home page URL is <http://www.ucs.ull.edu/~jwf7377/index.html>. E-mail me ASAP using the e-mail link found on the English 365 home page. In this e-mail, give me a little of your computing background and expertise (or lack thereof). If you e-mail me from class, you will have to do so by using the Web Mail Log In. If you habitually use an e-mail account other than the University's, you must forward your mail from your UL account to the one you most often use. Friday, January 15. Workshop: Basic Home Page
Week 2	Monday, January 18. Martin Luther King Day. Wednesday, January 20. Read Chapter One: An Introduction to Technical Writing Workshop: Basic Home Page. Friday, January 22. Read Chapter Two: Purpose and Audience. Workshop: Basic Home Page.
Week 3	Monday, January 25. Workshop: Basic Home Page Wednesday, January 27. Read Chapter Three: Planning. Workshop: Basic Home Page. Friday, January 29. Read Chapter Four: Stylistic Desiderata. Workshop: Basic Home Page.
Week 4	Monday, February 1. Workshop: The Basics of Technical Writing and Other Works in Progress (OWIP). Wednesday, February 3. Checkpoint #1 for Basic Home Page (preliminary and ungraded).Your home page should be up on the UCS server. If time permits, I will be reviewing these preliminary web sites in class; if time does not permit, I will look at them from home. Although this checkpoint is not graded, an additional three graded checkpoints are associated with this project. Read Chapter Five: Document Design and Layout and Chapter Six: Ethical Responsibilities of the manual. Friday, February 5. Read Chapter Seven: Letter of Application and Résumé of the manual and the Résumé and Letter of Application project page. Workshop: The Basics of Technical Writing and Other Works in Progress (OWIP).
Week 5	Monday, February 8. Read and print both Appendix I: The Manuscript (ms) & Camera-Ready (c-r) Formats of the manual and the English 365: Document Submission Requirements. Workshop: Writing a Letter of Application and Résumé and OWIP. Wednesday, February 10. Read Chapter Eight: Describing a Process of the manual and the Instructions project page. Workshop: Writing Instructions and OWIP. Friday, February 12. Checkpoint for Letter of Application and Résumé. You must turn in hard copy of both the letter of application and the résumé, as well as a copy of the position advertisement, at the beginning of class. The letter of application must be presented in both ms and c-r copy; the résumé, in c-r copy only. Workshop: Writing Instructions and OWIP.
Week 6	Monday, February 15-Wednesday, February 17: Mardi Gras Friday, February 19. No class.
Week 7	Monday, February 22. Read Chapter Nine: Proposals and Chapter Ten: Reports of the manual and the Proposal project page. Read the Process Analysis project page. Workshop: Writing a Process Analysis. Writing Reports, Memos, E-mail, and OWIP. Wednesday, February 24. Workshop: Writing Proposals and OWIP. Basic Home Page #2 (background, welcome message, graphic, links to 365 Home Page and your e-mail: 15 points). Friday, February 26. 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 directory and put a link to that file on your home page.
Week 8	Monday, March 1. Checkpoint for Proposal memo. This checkpoint carries no credit points.You must turn in hard copy (c-r only) of your memo at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Writing a Process Analysis and OWIP. Wednesday, March 3. Workshop: Writing Reports and OWIP. Friday, March 5. Read Table and Chart project page. Workshop: Writing Reports and OWIP.
Week 9	Monday, March 8. Read Chapter 12:Online Publication and Chapter 14: Oral and Visual Presentations and the PowerPoint Presentation project page. Workshop: Tables and Charts and OWIP. Wednesday, March 10. Checkpoint for Process Analysis. Workshop: Table and Chart and OWIP. Friday, March 12. Checkpoint for Table and Chart. You must turn in hard copy of the Table and Chart at the beginnig of class. Workshop: PowerPoint and OWIP.
Week 10	Monday, March 15. Begin PowerPoint Presentations. Checkpoint for PowerPoint presentations. Mandatory attendance. Wednesday, March 17. Checkpoint for PowerPoint presentations. Mandatory attendance. Friday, March 19. Checkpoint for PowerPoint presentations. Mandatory attendance.
Week 11	Monday, March 22. Checkpoint for Proposal. You must provide hard copy of the Proposal at the beginning of the class. Chapter Thirteen: Collaborative Writing of the manual and the Brochure project page. Chapter Eleven: Critical Interpretations and Assessments and the Critical Report project page. Workshop: Collaborative Writing. Division of the class into collaborative groups. Workshop: Brochures and critical interpretations and assessments. Wednesday, March 24. Workshop: Proposal Progress Report, collaborative writing, and OWIP. Friday, March 26. Workshop: Proposal Progress Report, collaborative writing, and OWIP. Basic Home Page #3 (15 point): Links to "About Me," résumé, and instructions.
Week 12	Monday, March 29. Checkpoint for Proposal Progress Report. You must provide hard copy of the Proposal Progress Report at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Collaborative Writing. Wednesday, March 31. Workshop: Collaborative Writing. Friday, April 3. The Easter Holiday/Spring Break begins.
Week 13	Easter Holiday/Spring Break
Week 14	Monday, April 12. No class, but continue working on the collaborative projects and OWIP Wednesday, April 14. Read the section of the Policy Page dealing with the class portfolio. Workshop: Collaborative projects and course Portfolio. Friday, April 16. Checkpoint for Brochure. You must provide hard copy of the Brochure (one for each group) at the beginning of the class.Workshop: Collaborative projects and OWIP.
Week 15	Monday, April 19. Workshop: Course Portfolio and OWIP. Wednesday, April 21. Collaborative projects and OWIP. Friday, April 23. Checkpoint for Critical Report. You must provide hard copy of the Report (one for each group) at the beginning of the class. Workshop: Course Portfolio and OWIP.
Week 16	Monday, April 26. Workshop: OWIP Wednesday, April 28. Workshop: OWIP Friday, April 30. 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: 20 points.
Final Exam	The final examination for English 365-4 is scheduled for Thursday, May 6, from 2:00 p.m until 4:30 p.m.. I will be in my office (HLG 230) during those hours.You may retrieve your portfolio and final examination and get your final course grade.