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.

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.

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?

During the first ten minutes of today’s class, write a summary of Anderson’s TC Chapter 8: Drafting Reader-Centered Paragraphs, Sections, and Chapters. Think about how these things relate to the usefulness-focus of workplace communication. As with your previous writings, you should format this as a memo. One thing that I have noticed few people doing is that your memo should begin with the word “Memo” or “Memorandum” at the top of the page (normally this is centered  but in a comment box you cannot add that kind of formatting, which is okay). Then, you give your from, to, subject, date block followed by your summary.

During the first ten minutes of class today, write a summary memo (don’t forget the full memo format–title MEMO, from/to/subject/date block, and content) of Anderson’s Technical Communication Chapter 5: Planning Your Persuasive Strategies.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of chapter four from Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication: “Planning for Usefulness.” This is one of the most important thing to consider when you are writing documents and other communications in the workplace: how do you make your communications useful for its audience? What strategies does Anderson give us to plan for the usefulness our communications need?

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading in Anderson’s Technical Communication, Chapter 3: Defining Your Communication’s Goals. Remember to format your response as a memo.

Top of comment: MEMO or Memorandum

TO:

FROM:

DATE:

RE: (Create your own meaningful subject)

(Your summary)