During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of Anderson’s TC chapter 24: Writing Reader-Centered Proposals. Focus on these questions: What is the overall purpose of a proposal? What are the major components of a proposal and what is each’s purpose in the proposal as a whole?
During the first ten minutes of class today, write a summary memo based on your reading from Paul Anderson’s TC Chapter 7: Using Five Reader-Centered Research Methods. Also, write about the kinds of research papers or projects that you have done before. Have you done library research before? Have you conducted an interview before? Have you gathered data from an experiment in a science class?
During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo of your reading from last night on Anderson’s TC Chapter 6: Conducting Reader-Centered Research. This chapter introduces important ideas for the next stage of Project 2: the Research Proposal.
Have one member of your team submit links to your Google Drive files as a comment to this post. You should include a link to your presentation file and a link to your presentation script/outline. To generate your links, remember to open each document on Google Drive in the editor (Document or Presentation respectively), and click File > Publish to the Web > copy the link generated. Only one person from your team needs to post your files, because your team documents should have all team members’ names on them and you should have worked on them collaboratively.
During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo of your reading for today’s class as a comment on this blog post. Our reading focus for today is Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication Chapter 19: Creating Communications with a Team.
During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo focused on Anderson’s Technical Communication, Chapter 12, Ending a Communication.
Spend the first ten minutes of class summarizing your reading from Paul Anderson’s TC Chapter 21: Managing Client and Service-Learning Projects. We will talk about how this relates to your second major project during today’s class. Then, you will have an opportunity to form the teams that you will use for the remainder of the semester.
During today’s class, you will pair off with someone who has read some or all of your job application portfolio.
For about half of the available time, one person acts as the interviewer and the other acts as interviewee. The interviewer asks questions about the employability of the person based on the sample questions available here and others that you ask on your own initiative. The interviewer should observe how the interviewee responds and what behavior is exhibited. After the interview, the interviewer should tell the interviewee about their observed performance. Next, the two people switch roles and conduct another interview.
If we do not have an even number of students today, one team may conduct a three person interview (two interviewers and one interviewee at a time).
Before our next class, write a memo addressed to Professor Ellis and posted as a comment on this blog post that responds to these questions:
1) What was your perception of your performance during the interview and how did your perception compare to the observations of the interviewer?
2) What did it feel like to answer interview questions like the ones that you encountered during the mock interview?
3) What strategies might you employ in the future to improve your overall performance during a real job interview? What preparation might you do prior to a job interview?
During the first ten minutes of class, write a memo summarizing your reading from Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication Chapter 11: Beginning a Communication. Also, how much time do you give before sending a message to a friend, family member, co-worker, boss, or professor? How should you think differently based on the medium of communication and who you are sending a communication to?
During the first ten minutes of class today, write a summary of your reading from Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication: Chapter 17, Revising Your Drafts. You have already been using some of his suggestions in your work on Project 1. In addition to your summary, consider these questions: How might you put revision practices into action in your other classes at City Tech? How might you put revision practices into action in the workplace?
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