WRIT 3109 | Welcome and Week One

In class on Monday:

  • Getting started: syllabus, Discord, WordPress
  • Rhetorical theory
  • Professional literacy and imagination
  • Genre discussion: email and memo
  • Skill discussion: interviewing
  • Career discussion: analyst

In class on Wednesday:

  • Genre discussion: memo
  • Skill discussion: facilitating
  • Career discussion: project manager
  • Tool introduction: Trello

Our reading:

To be determined by the class

Our activity:

On Monday we will observe an event. Pair for observation.

By Tuesday, submit an email documenting one of the interactions (one team member drafts, the other edits).

By Wednesday, submit a memo to your fictional team analyzing the perspectives of those who documented the event and making recommendations (one member drafts, the other edits).

On Thursday or Friday, invite/accept an invite to a 10-min Teams meeting with a peer (not your drafting partner) to introduce yourselves and discuss your memo and theirs.

Using Trello to arrange a reading/discussion schedule for Weeks Two-Four.

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