English 410: 002

 

Course Schedule

Week 1 (Sept 1): Course intro: Overview of Technical Writing
Letters of introduction

 

Week 2 (Sept 8): Audience
RTI chapters 2-3, 12
Exercises

 

Week 3 (Sept 15): Style
RTI chapters 4, 13
Customer Letter

 

Week 4 (Sept 22): Document Design
RTI chapters 8-10, 17

 

Week 5 (Sept 29): Ethics
RTI chapters 5-6, 18
Instruction set

 

Week 6 (Oct 6): Gathering Information
RTI chapters 7, 11

 

Week 7 (Oct 13): Research Reports
Synthesis
RTI chapter 15

 

Week 8 (Oct 20): Proposals and Progress Reports
RTI chapter 16
Literature Review

 

Week 9 (Oct 27): Recommendation Reports and Feasibility Studies
RTI chapter 14
Research proposal

 

Week 10 (Nov 3): Presentations
RTI chapter 19
Progress Report 1

 

Week 11 (Nov 10): Job Search
RTI chapter 20
Progress Report 2

 

Week 12 (Nov 17): Peer Review
drafts of Recommendation Report

 

Week 13 (Nov 24): [Thanksgiving break ]

 

Week 14 (Dec 1): Presentations
Progress report 3

 

Week 15 (Dec 8): Presentations
Recommendation reports due.