Date
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Think (read)
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Do (write)
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Week 1: Introductions
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| Jan 11 |
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Week 2: Writing for a Living
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| Jan 18 |
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Week 3: Career Perspectives
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| Jan 25 |
- Jablonski. “Seeing Technical Communication from a Career Perspective”
- Walls. “The Professional Work of ‘Unprofessional’ Tweets”
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Week 4: Networking and Supporting Writing Careers
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| Feb 1 |
- Lauren & Pigg. “Networking in a Field of Introverts”
- Rogers and Lee-Wong. “Reconceptualizing Politeness”
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Week 5: Establishing a PW Identity
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| Feb 8 |
- Ketter & Hunter “Creating a Writer’s Identity […].“
- Johnson-Eola. “Relocating the Value of Work”
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Week 6: Workplace Writing Collaboration
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| Feb 15 |
- Palmeri. “When Discourses Collide”
- Noel and Robert. “Empirical Study of Collaborative Writing”
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Week 7: Content Strategy
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| Feb 22 |
- Dush. “When Writing Becomes Content.”
- Bloomstein. “Content Strategy at Work” (Selections)
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Week 8: Editing
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| Mar 1 |
- Bisaillon. “Professional Editing Strategies Used by Six Editors.”
- Copyediting basics
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Week 9: Project Management
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| Mar 8 |
- Project Management for Dummies, Chapter 1
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| ☀️😎 Spring Break 🛏️😴 |
| March 13-17 |
Week 11: Professional Review
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| Mar 22 |
- Katz. The Dynamics of Writing Review, Ch. 3 & 4.
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Week 12: Infrastructure & Style
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| Mar 29 |
- Angouri & Harwood. “This Is Too Formal for Us. . .: A Case Study of Variation in the Written Products of a Multinational Consortium.”
- S. Read. “The Infrastructure Function: A Relational Theory of Infrastructure for Writing Studies.”
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Week 13: Cultural Constraints
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| Apr 5 |
- Allen. “Feminist Standpoint Theory: A Black Woman’s (Re)View of Organizational Socialization.
- Worth. “Who We Are at Work: Millennial Women, Everyday Equalities, and Insecure Work.”
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Week 14: Connecting Text and Context
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| Apr 12 |
- Hayes & Bajzek. “Understanding and Reducing the Knowledge Effect: Implications for Writers.”
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Week 15: Professional Portfolio Workshop
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| Apr 19 |
- Professional Portfolio Workshop
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- “In Class” Writing Prompt and Peer response
- Due: Weekly Internship Log
- Due: Strengths assessment and portfolio (resubmission
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