First Meeting:
- "Employer Reality Check" with finished resumes
- Presentation group time in class
- Group 1: Anu, Travis, Dan -- delete needless qualifiers, commonly confused words, italics
- Group 2: Aaron, Brandon, Adrian, Matt, Kelley -- semi-colon, colon, comma
- Group 3: David, Lindsay, Patrick, Charu, Spencer: Non-sexist language, cultural context, dashes, parentheses, brackets
- Group 4: Jared, Jake, Christopher, Brad, Ross -- apostrophes, quotation marks, ellipses, capitalization
For Next Meeting:
- Finalize group presentations, if applicable
In PW Online, read Managing Projects:
- Overview
- Collaboration and Team Writing
- Selecting a Team Work Structure
- Drafting and Revising Large-Scale Projects
- Troubleshooting Team Problems
Second Meeting:
Introduction of collaborative unit:
- Mini-collaboration activity
- Collaboration case studies
- Requirements for collaborative projects:
- personal log
- group log/minutes
- all drafts
- collaborative project evaluation form
Third Meeting:
Groups 1 and 2 presentations
For Next Meeting:
- From PW Online, read the following sections:
- White Papers
- Types of Reports
- When you finish the readings, complete the reading questions (attached at the bottom of this page. Remember, you must be logged in to view attachments), print them out, and turn them in at the beginning of the next class.