Schedule of Classes

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Sun 4 Sep
Lecture 1
Introduction to the course — The Basics of Technical Communication
  • Component skills pre-assessment
Editing for correctness
Tue 6 Sep
Lecture 2
The Rethorical Approach
  • J. Reddish: "Understanding Readers"

Sun 11 Sep
Lecture 3
Scientific Writing process and Principles — Style (introduction to technical editing)
  • Hofmann Chapters 2-6
Parallelism
Tue 13 Sep
Lecture 4
Writing Job-application materials (project 1)
  • Hoffman Chapter 29
  • Reading pre-assessment

Sun 18 Sep
Lecture 5
Document and Visual Design
  • Hoffman Chapter 9
  • OLI module
Alignment and contrast
Tue 20 Sep
Lecture 6
Peer review workshop & intro to Genres (project 2)
  • CV and cover letter draft

Sun 25 Sep
Lecture 7
Reading a CS research paper
  • Hoffman Chapters 10-13
Data commentary moves
Tue 27 Sep
Lecture 8
Analyzing genres — Abstracts
    • Hoffman Chapter 14
    • Genre analysis readings (Bhatia et al)

Sun 2 Oct
Lecture 9
Conducting field research
  • Odell and Katz Chapter 10
  • CV and cover letter final
Conciseness
Tue 4 Oct
Lecture 10
Posters
  • Hoffman Chapter 27

Sun 9 Oct
Lecture 11
No class — individual conferences on posters
  • Poster draft
Gapping (captions and headings)
Tue 11 Oct
Lecture 12
Introduction to project 3

Sun 16 Oct
Lecture 13
Poster Session I
Procedural-functional elaboration
Tue 18 Oct
Lecture 14
Poster Session II

Sun 23 Oct
Lecture 15
Technical documentation (project 3)
  • Barker Chapters 1
Coherence (global and local)
Tue 25 Oct
Lecture 16
Collaborative work
  • Markel Chapter 4

Sun 30 Oct
Lecture 17
Analyzing Audiences
  • Barker Chapters 2
Tue 1 Nov
Lecture 18
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Sun 6 Nov
No class (Eid Al-Adha)
Tue 8 Nov

Sun 13 Nov
Lecture 19
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Tue 15 Nov
Lecture 20
Designing and Using Graphics
  • Barker Chapter 11

Sun 20 Nov
Lecture 21
Peer review workshop
  • User guide draft
Nominalization
Tue 22 Nov
Lecture 22
Proposals II
  • Markel Chapters 21-26

Sun 27 Nov
Lecture 23
No class — group conferences on proposals
Documentation
Tue 29 Nov
Lecture 24
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Sun 4 Dec
Lecture 25
Persuasive oral communication
  • Markel Chapter 6
Sentence and paragraph length
Tue 6 Dec
Lecture 26
Peer review workshop
  • Proposal draft

Sun 11 Dec
Lecture 27
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Tue 13 Dec
Lecture 28
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