Week 6

Topics: Reports

Readings: chs 22 & 23

Date

Class Meeting

For Next Class

Mon, 2/11

progess report guidelines

further Friedman discussion

  • book's politics
  • Marx quote
  • information/ persuasion
For Wednesday, 2/13, find an example of a report and bring it to class. Anything that calls itself a "report" is fine. Here are some suggestions:
  • one of your better lab reports
  • an annual report from a company
  • a report written by Purdue
  • the water quality report that turns up in your water bill
Wed, 2/13

Friedman leftovers

Reports:

  • types
  • your examples
Rough draft of progress report (guidelines here) due Friday.
Fri, 2/15

peer-review of progress reports:

work/research/ meeting time

  1. work on project #2
  2. read, in TCT, chapters 2 (on the technical writing process) and 7 (on research & information management)
  3. Post blog #6, on your writing process
  4. Look back at your project #1 interview and see if you learned anything that will interest the class