1. Week 3
1.1. Self-evaluation
1.2. Memo peer review
1.2.1. Interaction, communicating, focused audience
1.3. write's note- talking about the steps we did about memo.
2. Week 4
2.1. The difference between college and workplace writing
2.1.1. workplace the reading is looking for meaningful information. The focus is clarity.
2.1.2. College writing a professor reads the whole essay. The focus is not on the writer's opinions.Its on issues and facts.
2.2. HOCs and LOCs
2.3. CONTENT
2.3.1. one of the 3 macro-questions is "What;s the story". in this stage readers are looking answers for their issues.
3. Week 5
3.1. Library
3.1.1. Discipline Research introduction
3.1.1.1. Information Technology major
3.1.1.2. Business Analyst
3.1.2. Research guides
4. Week 7
4.1. Presentations- practice before presenting, good eye contact, breath and talk slow, ask equations afterwards, confidence is important
4.2. Issues/ concerns of presentations
4.2.1. reading of slides, public speaking anxiety,lack of practice
4.3. 3 Types of Letter recommendations
4.3.1. Recommended- Highly recommended
4.3.2. Recommended with reservations- 50/50
4.3.3. Not recommended- do not recommend
5. Week 8
5.1. Paragraphs
5.1.1. Chunking related sentences
5.1.2. Direct(main point in a topic sentence 1st then providing sentence) or indirect(supporting sentence 1st, then topic sentence)
5.2. Presentations by students
5.2.1. IT
5.2.2. Health Science
5.2.3. Law
5.2.4. English writing
5.2.5. physiology and information technology
5.2.6. the delivery of presentation(good and bad)
5.2.6.1. a practice for real world
6. Week 11
6.1. Resume/Cover letter
6.1.1. Don't put full address on a resume(only city and state)
6.1.2. put GPA if more than 3.0
6.1.3. unless freshman or sophomore, no need to put high school
6.1.4. resume is to get you an interview
6.1.5. cover letter to introduce yourself.
6.1.6. job search on handshake and LinkedIn
6.2. Example of synopsis
6.2.1. a brief summer of proposal.
7. Week 13
7.1. Presentation on proposal
7.1.1. High school does not prepare students for college
8. Week 15
8.1. Learning outcome reminder in English 317
8.2. Contribution to on overall grade
9. Week 2
9.1. Assignment 1-Memo(Memo format), Guidelines for interaction, some example of interactions, example of memo with a business writing.
9.2. Tone-defined as attitude of the writer.Important to pick the right tone(example-humorous and critical)
9.3. Audience- who will read your writing, knowing your audience is important
9.4. Purpose- what you want your readers to get from your writing
10. Week 1
10.1. 317 Introduction
10.2. The difference between workplace and class writing.
10.2.1. Workplace-professionalism,cooperative, and friendly
10.2.2. Classroom-Diversity,creative, and open
10.3. Good qualities-Kindness, Empathy, patience
11. Week 6
11.1. Type of Interaction-Respect/Attention,Professional, Understanding, Honest
11.2. Good Interactions-Eye Contact, question being asked, informative
11.3. To Get there- Know your audience, practice and have patience
12. Week 9(no classes)Getting started with proposal
12.1. Ideal environment-Accessible for disabilities, diversity of people with different cultures, flexible hours for commuters, feedback one-on-one
12.2. issues or tends- not many writers are available in IT industry, most people antisocial, no privacy because of information technology usage
13. Week 10
13.1. Feedback for proposal
13.1.1. use real life examples, pick a job and focus on its negative side to bring the positive side
13.2. how to look for a job
13.2.1. seeking for some connections, prepare, cover letter and resume, initiative, handshake, indeed, attend career/job fairs
13.3. Sentence
13.3.1. how your write your sentence affects readers, maintain a logical sentence core use short sentence more,prefer active voices, passive when the anent is unknown
13.4. word choice
13.4.1. plain language
13.4.2. better to use the words you learned first,avoid jargon(long sentence and hard words) and abbreviation
14. Week 12
14.1. Meeting minutes
14.1.1. Anu's proposal presentation was about recycling electronic waste and donating them to low-income families. His presentation was great other than his slides containing too much information. His presentation was good and covered the required information: GOAL(to bring families Internet all over the US to reduce to the electronic waste), COST(pay employees to break down to the devices to recycle), BENEFIT(contributes to our environment less dangerous toxic), RISK(Competitions between companies), PROCES(find for building, get start in lower-income neighborhoods in MD, depending on success, move to other places around the US). From his presentation, I could see that he planned, and practiced well before delivering the presentation.