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Week 1 (June 3-5): Technical Writing and
Its Audiences
CGTC chapters 1-3
CGTC Chapter 3, exercise 1
MTCL Writing Process: Activities and Case Studies: Usability
Case Study 1
Week 2 (June 10-12): Usability
CGTC chapter 10 (Letter, Résumé), chapter 3
MTCL Model Documents: Letters: Good News, Bad News, Refusal
MTCL Model Documents: Résumés and Career Correspondence
quiz
Customer Letter due June 12
Week 3 (June 17-19): Short Reports
CGTC chapters 8-9, 10 (Email, Memos, Short Reports), 11 (Instructions and Procedures)
MTCL
Model Documents: Instructions, and Procedures
MTCL Document
Design: Visual Rhetoric Tutorial
Résumé due June 17
Week 4 (June 24-26):Conducting Research
CGTC chapter 4, chapter 12 (Proposals)
CGTC chapter 4 exercise 1
MTCL Model Documents: Research Proposals 1 and 2
Short Report due June 24
Week 5 (July 1): Ethical and Legal Issues
CGTC chapters 5-7
CGTC chapter 7, exercise 3
MTCL Research Process: Avoiding Plagiarism: MLA: When to Document: Self Tests
1-3
Proposal due July 1
Week 6 (July 8-10): Complex Reports
CGTC chapter 12, Appendix B
MTCL Model Documents: Research Report
MTCL Research Process: Avoiding Plagiarism: MLA: Extended Analysis
All revisions due by July 10
Week 7 (July 15-17): Editing
CGTC Appendix A
MTCL Grammar: Diagnostics
MTCL: Grammar: Usage and Style: Biased and Sexist Language, Redundancy and Wordiness
quizzes 3 and 4
Progress Report due July 15
Week 8 (July 22-24):Presentations
MTCL: Model Documents: Presentations
MTCL: Model Documents: Presentation quiz
Class Presentations July 22-24
Analytical Reports due July 24
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