CE 333T Schedule for Fall 2008

Lab dates are highlighed in yellow.

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Date	Topics & Class Notes	Readings	Assignment Information	Assignment Due
8/27	Introduction: Communicating with clients and co-workers	Ch. 1
8/28 LAB	Introductions & Sustainability Projects		Lab Requirements
9/1	LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS		LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS
9/3	Organizing for readers; Correspondence Grammar review: Passive Voice	Ch. 3; Section 4.2.1; Section 8.3
9/4 LAB	Researching Companies, Peer Review of Application Letter	Ch. 6; pp 94-99		Draft of job application letter
9/8	Résumés		Action Words Checklist Letter and Resume Assignment
9/10	Student-led style review: Pruning* RFPs and sustainability projects	*Section 4.2.2 Website posting	Your Term Project Partnerships Working Collaboratively Peer Review
9/11 LAB	Résumé Workshop		Grading Info	Draft of Résumé
9/15	Proposals Planning your Project	Section 8.4	Proposal Assignment	JOB APP. LETTER and RESUME (#1)
9/17	Student-led review: Empty Pronouns* Researching; Evaluating Information	*Section 4.2.3 Ch. 2; pp 13-26	Finding Sources, Evaluating Sources Sample References Documenting Sources	Project Topics (on web by 9:30 a.m.)
9/18 LAB	PROJECT DESCRIPTION REVIEW		Memo Review Informal Presentation Assignment	Draft of Project Description Response to Project Ideas (on web by 5:00 p.m.) Partnership Agreement
9/22	Oral Presentations	Ch. 7	Giving Presentations	PROBLEM DESCRIPTION (#2)
9/24	Presentation Graphics
9/25 LAB	Presenting your Work		Proposal Review	Informal Presentations Draft of Proposal
9/29	Writing in the Workplace
10/1	Student-led review: Paragraphs* and Transitions Using and Documenting Sources	*Sections 4.3.1 & 4.3.2 Ch. 2; pp 26-32	Managing Sources Plagiarism
10/2 LAB	PROJECT RATIONALE REVIEW Engineering librarin visit			Draft of Project Rationale
10/6	Ethics and Spoken Communication		Communicating about Risk Oral Briefing Assignment,	PROJECT RATIONALE (#3)
10/8	Researching Ethically	Website posting	Plagiarism
10/9 LAB	PRESENTATION REVIEW		Oral Report Review Oral Report Schedule	ORAL BRIEFINGS (5 mins.)
10/13	Graphics in documents	Ch. 5	Importance of Persuasion in Engin. Communication
10/15	Student-led review: Parallelism* Communicating visually	*Section 4.3.3
10/16 LAB	PRESENTATION REVIEW		Oral Report Review Oral Report Schedule	ORAL BRIEFINGS (5 mins.)
10/20	Implementation Plans			TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION (#4)
10/22	Student-led review: Words* Designing Documents	*Section 4.5 Sections 8.1-8.2
10/23 LAB	Designing Documents: Requirements for complete proposal			Style Sheet (in lab)
10/27	Constructing arguments verbally & orally			The Unforeseen (DVD)
10/29	Student-led review: Punctuation: Commas* and Semi-colons TBA	*Section 4.6
10/30 LAB	Check on Progress			Conference week -- NO LAB
11/3	Leading ethically		Models of Public Participation	IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (#5)
11/5	Oral Presentations: Nerves, questions, and teamwork	Sections 7.5-7.7	Oral Presentation Assignment
11/6 LAB	Rehearsal opportunity			Meet in lab
11/10 11/12	PRESENTATION EVALUATION ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE			ORAL PRESENTATIONS ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/13				ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/17 11/19				ORAL PRESENTATIONS ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/20				ORAL PRESENTATIONS
11/24	Executive Summaries			Rewritten section (optional)
11/26	NO CLASS			NO CLASS
11/27 LAB	THANKSGIVING			THANKSGIVING
12/1	Revising and polishing	Ch. 6, pp 99-112		Course Evaluations
12/3	Communicating with co-workers			EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (#6) - bound into complete proposal
12/4 LAB	NO LAB			NO LAB PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS (#7)

Lecture sesssions will be held in CPE 2.206 except on these dates: 11/10, 11/12, 11/17, and 11/19 (oral presentations).
Lab sessions will be held in ECJ 3.402, except on these dates:10/30 (individual conferences); 11/6 (rehearsal opportunity); 11/13, 11/20 (oral presentations); and 12/4.

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

Harris, M. (2006). Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, 6th ed., Prentice Hall, NJ. (Abbreviated "RG" above.)

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

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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