4 Topics: Forming writing teams and Topics: What do technical planning collaboration. Designing communicators need to know about Effective Project Management collaboration? 2/13 Strategies. Creating a Team Charter Writing due: Draft of Team Charter. & and Task Schedule. Selecting Reading Due: SPTC, Ch. 18 by Burnett, 2/15 research sites and drafting the Letter Cooper, and Welhausen (454-78). of Inquiry (cont.). Writing due: Final draft of Exploratory Essay Reading due: Team Writing, Chs. 1-4 (3-48). 5 Topics: How can technical Topics: Project management (cont.). communicators manage projects? Understanding what ethnographic Peer review writing workshop: research is and how it can lend insight on 2/20 Letter of Inquiry, Team Charter, Task the practice of professional writing. & Schedule. Reading: From FieldWorking: 2/22 Writing due: Draft of Letter of “Understanding Fieldwriting” (65-92, Inquiry. Draft of Team Charter and posted to Canvas). Task Schedule. Reading due: SPTC, Ch. 13 by Dicks (310-32). 6 Topics: How can technical Topics: Data collection methods: communicators study work contexts? Gathering and analyzing texts. Drafting Understanding what field notes are, the Ethnographic Research Proposal. 2/27 why they are important, and how to Reading: From FieldWorking: & compose them “Understanding Texts” (117-139, posted 3/1 Writing due: Writing due: Letter of to Canvas). Inquiry, Team Charter, and Task Schedules (NOTE: Upload as separate files to Canvas.). Reading: SPTC, Ch. 11 by Spinuzzi (262-84). From FieldWorking: “Field
4 2/13 & 2/15 Topics: Forming writing teams and planning collaboration. Designing Effective Project Management Strategies. Creating a Team Charter and Task Schedule. Selecting research sites and drafting the Letter of Inquiry (cont.). Writing due: Final draft of Exploratory Essay Reading due: Team Writing, Chs. 1-4 (3-48). Topics: What do technical communicators need to know about collaboration? Writing due: Draft of Team Charter. Reading Due: SPTC, Ch. 18 by Burnett, Cooper, and Welhausen (454-78). 5 2/20 & 2/22 Topics: How can technical communicators manage projects? Peer review writing workshop: Letter of Inquiry, Team Charter, Task Schedule. Writing due: Draft of Letter of Inquiry. Draft of Team Charter and Task Schedule. Reading due: SPTC, Ch. 13 by Dicks (310-32). Topics: Project management (cont.). Understanding what ethnographic research is and how it can lend insight on the practice of professional writing. Reading: From FieldWorking: “Understanding Fieldwriting” (65-92, posted to Canvas). 6 2/27 & 3/1 Topics: How can technical communicators study work contexts? Understanding what field notes are, why they are important, and how to compose them Writing due: Writing due: Letter of Inquiry, Team Charter, and Task Schedules (NOTE: Upload as separate files to Canvas.). Reading: SPTC, Ch. 11 by Spinuzzi (262-84). From FieldWorking: “Field Topics: Data collection methods: Gathering and analyzing texts. Drafting the Ethnographic Research Proposal. Reading: From FieldWorking: “Understanding Texts” (117-139, posted to Canvas).
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