Week 3–Day 5 (Thursday, September 14th [online])

Readings (1.5 hours):

1. Read Chapter 3, Persuading Your Audience, in Lannon & Gurak (pp. 36-60).

Online Assignments (1.5 hours):

For today’s activity, you will begin to generate ideas about a fascination that you *might* want to develop into a project. See here for directions.

Projects:

Keep thinking about your final project idea. You will need several to discuss and narrow down.

Week 3–Day 4 (Tuesday, September 12th)

Today, you have a chapter reading due, and the Fascination Inventory (aka 50 paragraphs). See below for more details.

Readings (1.5 hour):

1. Read Chapter 2, Meeting the Needs of Specific Audiences, in Lannon & Gurak (pp. 16-34).

Assignments (5-7 hours):

Complete the Fascination Inventory as directed and upload to your individual Drive folder (link below).

ENG2575-HD72-FascinationInventory-Fall17

Projects:

Final Project Overview assigned. Please read and familiarize yourself with what you will be doing this semester for this project (link below).

EN2575-HD72-FinalProject-Fall17

 

Week 2–Day 3 (Thursday, September 7th [online])

You have no additional writing assignments given on Thursday due to Hurricane Irma preparations.

Readings:

None.

Online Assignments (2 hours):

1. Information Sheet — https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eq4IssrNCJpWwr7mLF9v6FNHyHfRGarM3RRRzwKlpR4
2. Self-Assessment — https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Nobs_BVdVS-zWI1Z3R3vfNarv2c-kueCUDyhFFzFgp4/edit?usp=sharing
3. 15 Questions — https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZF9UiWKAFFiBTELKqqzduw9YOph8g99R-qgA2sJ_Stg/edit?usp=sharing

Projects:

None.

Week 2–Day 2 (Tuesday, September 5th)

The following readings and assignments are what you are expected to have completed for class on Tuesday, September 7th. Note, you can find this reading in our Course Documents folder.

Readings (2.5 hours):

1. Read ENG 2575 course syllabus.
2. Read Chapter 1, Introduction to Technical Communication, in Lannon & Gurak (pp. 2-15).

Assignments:

None.

Projects:

None. 

Week 1–Day 1 (Thursday, August 28th)

The following readings, assignments, and projects are what you are expected to have completed for class on Thursday, August 28th. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Readings:

None.

Assignments:

1. Accept access to your individual Google Drive class folder.
2. Access our Course Documents For You folder online here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B47ZnpPFjw0CMmhWV0x2V0VJUjg?usp=sharing
3. Purchase textbook.

Projects: 

No projects have been assigned yet.