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Business Writing

English 3130 040 CRN 83895 Minimester 1 Fall 2008

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In Class 10/7

Put those nametags out!

  • Schedule & Final
  • Discuss Participation grades
  • Names anyone?
  • Project feedback
  • Class Reflection & Feedback
  • Hand back reports & oral presentations
  • Workshop Writing Analysis Project

 

In Class 10/6

  • Housekeeping & Schedule
  • Hand in Report
  • Look at journal samples
  • Presentation set up & tech testing time
  • Presentations:
    • Department of Awesome
    • S&K Group
    • Team S.A.R.S
    • International Statements
    • SKK Research
  • Workshop Writing Analysis Project

 

In Class 10/1

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In Class 9/29

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Reading Response 9/29

Drawing on the reading, discuss which type of summary you think you would use in your recommendation report, if you had to do a summary. Why would you use this type? Also provide a brief outline of what you would include in the summary. You do not have to provide specific information and things like actual country you are recommending and why (you can be vague). But, if you would like you can use what information you have now or you may (for this) make it up.

Post your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.

 

 

In Class 9/24

 

 

Reading Response 9/24

Drawing on Chapter 11, discuss which types of visuals you think you may use in your group multicultural project and how you will use them. These visuals could be used in your progress reports, presentation, reports, and even your peer evaluation.

Extra Credit:
What is the process you should go through when putting visuals into your document? Hint: I am not asking technical details like copying the image and then pasting it in, but the process as a writer.

Post your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.

 

In Class 9/22

 

 

Reading Response 9/22

Drawing on Chapter 14, think about your future career (the career you plan to go into after your education at GSU and any further education). What types of proposals might you have to write? Why will you have to write these? Discuss one possibility/example in detail and cover:

  • type of proposal
  • audience
  • purpose

Extra Credit: What is one important thing you remember from the readings for 10/5. Why is it important?

Post your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.

 

 

 

In Class 9/17

  • Reading Response (15 min)
  • Question of the Day: "If you could travel to any part of the world tomorrow, where would it be and why?" Thanks to Melissa
  • Tip of the Day: Saving as a RTF
  • Collaboration: Review the reading and discuss
    • The good, the bad, and the ugly of group work
  • Discuss Multicultural readings & experiences, Color PPT
  • Introduce Group Multicultural Project & form groups
  • Workshop

 

 

Reading Response 9/17

Drawing on Chapter 3 and your own experiences, start thinking about collaboration in the larger collaborative business writing project (a several week long collaborative project, with groups 3-4 people in size, which will include research and a recommendation report, along with shorter documents).

First discuss your strengths and weaknesses in regards to this type of project. Also, discuss which type of roles would best suit your working and collaborative styles.

Next, choose the model for collaboration which you think would best work for you in this longer collaborative project. Why?

Extra Credit: Sometimes collaborative groups can have problems. Have you ever had collaborative group with a problem? What was the problems and how did you solve it or how could it have best been solved?

If you have never had a collaborative group with a problem, what is one type of problem you could foresee happening? What would be the best way to solve this?

Post your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.

 

In Class 9/15

Put those nametags out!

  • Reading Response (12 min)
  • Question of the Day: "What is your dream job?"
  • Tip of the Day: em dash, en dash, and hyphen (more info)
  • Grammar Questions?
  • Copyright & Plagiarism Slides and Discussion: Part 2
  • More on reading responses
  • Discuss reading & Resume Top 10 Things to do and to avoid slides
  • Résumé tips
  • Resume Peer Critique
  • Show me your drafts!
  • Workshop

 

 

Reading Response 9/15:

This reading response has 2 parts, both drawing on the readings and class discussion from 9/10.:

  1. What types of research do you think you will have to do in your career? What methods and techniques will you pull from chapter 8 to do the research? Why and how?
  2. Drawing on Chapter 9 and the Farkas and Farkas Copyright reading (photocopies handed out in class 9/26, let me know if you need a copy), discuss in your own words:
    • what must be cited and why
    • what is intellectual property and how you can correctly use someone's intellectual property without violating copyright

    Also, describe what you would do if you wanted to use an image you found on the web in a written report for this class. How would you handle citation and copyright?

    Note: if you do use any paraphrasing or quotes from the readings do correctly give credit to these sources.

 

In class 9/10:

  • Reading Response (10 min)
  • Question of the Day: " If you were any kind of food what would you be and it could be anything?" Thanks to Sam
  • Tip of the Day: Advanced searching
  • Discuss Correspondence Suite
  • Copyright Slides and Discussion
  • Break
  • Résumé tips
  • Résumé Design PPT
  • Hand back Correspondence Suite
  • Workshop (make sure you bring your résumé!)

 

Reading Response 9/10:

Drawing on Chapter 7 and class 9/19, what type of résumé will you write? Why? What parts will you have and what order will they be in? Why?

 

In class 9/8:

  • Reading Responses (12 minutes)
  • Question of the Day: "If you were a super hero, what would your super power be?" Thanks to Ryan
  • Tip of the Day: Babel Fish Translation
  • Look over schedule
  • Hand out "Get out of Jail free" cards
  • Go over reading responses and in class activities
  • Ethical slides & Discussion (Lannon #2 on 93)
  • Break
  • Discuss reading and Résumé and Cover Letter PPT and look over the samples on the resources page
  • Introduce Résumé & Cover Letter Suite
  • Discuss required meeting with me next week
  • In class: Résumé Critique (posted to the forum)
    • Working in a small group, choose and critique one of the résumés listed on the resource page. First give the résumé a 20-45 second skim, and based on that skim discuss what your first impression of the résumé is and whether you would continue to examine it or move on to other résumés. Then examine the résumé more fully and critique it applying Chapter 7 and what we have covered in class on résumés. Look at the design, the organization, the content, clarity, conciseness, and so on. Also discuss how effective you think the résumé is and what can be done to make it stronger or, if applicable, what makes it particularly strong.
  • Résumé Critique: what did you find?
  • Résumé tips and questions (what about templates?)
  • Résumé Workshop, find a job, & time sign up

 

Reading Response 9/8:

Drawing on the reading (the Lannon ethics reading on ERes), and especially on the reasonable criteria for ethical judgment, choose two of the ethical situations listed in exercise 2 (page 93) and discuss your “ethical” solutions to the situations. Make sure you draw on the chapter to support your solutions. Post your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.

 

In class 9/3:

  • Reading Responses (12 minutes)
  • Hand in Correspondence Suite
  • Question of the Day: "What do you like the most about Georgia?" Thanks to Kemi Adeniyi
  • Tidbit of the day: Email length
  • Tip of the Day: Greeking!
  • Grammar Questions?
  • Reading Response Feedback
  • For Next Class: Bring in those Résumés and Cover Letters you already have (or notes to make one if you don't have anything)
  • Document Design Discussion & PPT
  • In-Class activity (design critique!)

 

Reading Response 9/3

The next project we will begin working on is the résumé suite. Drawing on Chapter 12, discuss how you will (or perhaps already have) apply document design techniques to your résumé. Why will you apply the techniques you have chosen? What things will you not do? Post your response as a reply to this posting on the forum.

 

In class 8/27:

 

 

 

Reading Response 8/27

Drawing on Chapter 6, come up with a situation in your life where you might write complaint letter. Briefly describe the situation and then provide an outline of what your complaint letter would contain.

 

In class 8/25:

 

 

Reading Response for 8/25:

Drawing on the reading, what types of correspondence do you think you may use in your career (if you do not yet know what you want to do for a career, feel free to just choose one option and write about that)? Why and when will you use them? Provide one example of use for each type of correspondence. If you do not think you will use one type, please explain why not.   

 

In class 8/20:

 

 

Reading Response for 8/20:

Drawing on the reading, discuss the writing you will have to do as part of your career. What types of writing will you need to do? How important will this writing be? Will your job impact your writing process? Will you write in teams and/or individually? Who will you write to? Why will you write?

 

In class 8/18: Introduction to class

  • Review Syllabus & Website
  • Teacher Introduction
  • Student Introduction & Questions
  • Enroll in the forum
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