CE 333T Schedule for Fall 2009

Lab dates are highlighed in yellow.

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Date	Topics & Class Notes	Readings & Tools	Upcoming Assignment Information	Assignment Due
8/26	Introduction: Communicating with clients and co-workers	Ch. 1
8/27 LAB	Introductions & Sustainability Projects		Lab Requirements Your Term Project
8/31	Organizing for readers: Process, Audience, Voice, and Correspondence Grammar review: Passive Voice	Ch. 3; Section 8.3 Section 4.2.1
9/2	Résumés Grammar review: Pruning	Ch. 6; pp 94-99; Section 4.2.2	Action Words Checklist; Letter and Resume Assignment
9/3 LAB	Résumé Workshop Peer Review of Application Letter		Grading Info	Draft of job application letter Draft of Résumé
9/7	LABOR DAY	LABOR dY
9/9	RFPs and sustainability projects; Grammar review: Paragraphs	UT-RFP; Regional-RFP Section 4.3.1, 4.3.2	Problem Description Assignment; Partnerships; Working Collaboratively ; Peer Review	JOB APP. LETTER and RESUME (#1) Project Topics (on web by noon.)
9/10 LAB	PROBLEM DESCRIPTION REVIEW Team discussion of project topics	Audience Analysis Worksheet	Problem Description. Proposal Project Overview. PEER PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS	Draft of Problem Description Response to Project Ideas (on web by 5:00 p.m.) Partnership Agreement
914	Planning your Proposa l	Section 8.4 Sample Problem Description	Style Sheet Checklist
9/16	Designing Documents; Project Rationale and Methodology	Sections 8.1-8.2	Homework #1 assigned	PROBLEM DESCRIPTION (#2)
9/17 LAB	Designing Documents: requirements for complete proposal			Style Sheet 1 (in lab)
9/21	Student-led review: Empty Pronouns*; Organization of sustainability proposals	*Section 4.2.3 Sample Project Rationale and Methodology	Project Rationale and Methodology
9/23	Graphics in documents	Ch. 5;	Informal Presentation Assignment
9/24 LAB	Designing Documents Collaboratively			Style Sheet 2 (in lab)
9/28	Student-led review: Transitions* ; Researching; Evaluating Information	Section 4.3.1 Chap 2	Finding Sources, Evaluating Sources; Sample References; Documenting Sources	HOMEWORK #1 due
9/30	Using and Documenting Sources	Ch. 2; pp 26-32	Managing Sources ; Plagiarism	PROJECT RATIONALE AND METHODOLOGY (#3)
10/1 LAB	Presenting your Work			Informal Presentations
10/5	Oral Presentations, Lessons from informal presentations; Preparing for Oral Briefings	Ch. 7; sample Technology Description	Giving Presentations;Oral Briefing Assignment; Technology Description assign.
10/7	Presentation Graphics	Ch. 7 Importance of Persuasion
10/8 LAB	TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION REVIEW	Bring Interview summary		Draft of Technology Description
10/12	Ethics and spoken communication; Oral Briefing slides
10/14	Communicating visually; Researching ethically	Website posting	Communicating about Risk; Plagiarism; Homework # 2 assigned	TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION (#4)
10/15 LAB	Oral Briefing Schedule		Oral Report Review	ORAL BRIEFINGS (5 mins.)
10/19	Student-led review: Parallelism* Implementation Plans and Audience	Section 4.3.3	Sample Implementation Plan and References
10/21	Student-led review: Words* Documenting Sources Constructing arguments: ethos, pathos, and logos	Section 4.5 The Unforeseen (DVD)*
10/22 LAB	Oral Briefing Schedule		Oral Report Review	ORAL BRIEFINGS (5 mins.)
10/26	Constructing arguments with words and graphics: The Unforeseen		Oral Presentation Schedule
10/28	The Unforeseen, part 2		Questions on The Unforeseen	IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (#5)
10/29 LAB	Check on Progress: Conference week -- NO LAB			Conference week -- NO LAB
11/2	Oral Presentations: Nerves, questions, and teamwork		Oral Presentation Assignment Oral Presentation Schedule	Sections 7.5-7.7 Hand in answers to Questions on The Unforeseen
11/4	Grammar review: PunctuationL Lessons from Implementation Plans	Section 4.6		HOMEWORK #2 due
11/5 LAB	Learning from your video recording			Presentations Workshop
11/9	Executive Summaries ; Final Proposal		Executive Summary & Complete Proposal	Rewritten section (optional)
11/11	PRESENTATION EVALUATION			ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/12 LAB	PRESENTATION EVALUATION			ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/16 11/18	PRESENTATION EVALUATION ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE			ORAL PRESENTATIONS ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/19	PRESENTATION EVALUATION ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE			ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/23	PRESENTATION EVALUATION			ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/25	NO CLASS			NO CLASS
11/26	THANKSGIVING
11/30	Revising and Polishing	Ch. 6, pp 99-112	Course Evaluations
12/2			Complete and bound proposal due by 4:00 p.m. in ECJ 8.6. NO LATE PROPOSALS ACCEPTED.	COMPLETE PROPOSAL -- incl. Executive Summary (#6)
12/3	NO LAB			Peer Performace Evaluations (#7) due by 4:00 pm in ECJ 8.6

Lecture sesssions will be held in ECJ 1.204 except on these dates:11/11, 11/16,11/18, and 11/23 (oral presentations).
Lab sessions will be held in ECJ 3.402, except on these dates: 10/29 (individual conferences); 11/12, 11/19 (oral presentations); and 12/3.

Sources of Readings
Hardcopy books (noted in the column above):

Harris, M. (2007). Prentice Hall Reference Guide for Professional Writing., Prentice Hall, NJ.

Hart, H. (2008), Engineering Communication, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall, NJ.

Softcopy readings are linked above. Most slides used in class are available there as PowerPoint files.

You are responsible for preparing all items formatted in italics or all-caps in the "Assignment Due" column.

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