Week 4

Tuesday, January 29

Professional Writing Club Guest Speaker
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In-Class Composing: Profile of the Professional Writing Teacher
- Draw on your interview and the interviews of group members in composing a professional document with a specific purpose and audience.
- Groups will be assigned one of the following audiences: 1) prospective graduate students, 2) current graduate students, 3) head of professional writing program, 4) chair of English department, or 5) the dean of Liberal Arts
Here is a brief instructional video on using Google Docs to compose collaborative documents

"Rhetoric, Professional Writing, and Social Space" (ppt)
- An interesting article on how tools shape users (in this case, how tools (re)wire the brain)
The Office as social space ("Conflict Resolution")

This short clip is an interesting take on the effect of email communication. Notice how the metaphor can easily be read as literal: the clip communicates the material impact of symbolic action and how communicative acts create environments. In many ways, it is a nice supplement to the episode of The Office we watched today:

Read: from Beyond Words (pdf)
No forum posting next week. Use the time to review and brainstorm for the mapping project. I will be introducing the project Tuesday.