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Last Updated 4.21.02

Week 1

T | 1.8

  • Welcome
  • Biographic survey 
  • Introduce each other
  • Discuss technology check list
  • Go over calendar
TH | 1.10
  • Introduction to the technology 
Due 
  • Read over the syllabus thoroughly; send the instructor an email by 8am today that covers the following: Your name, major, and year, and 1) What were your expectations for this course, 2) What was confusing? 3) What was fair? unfair? Why? 4) Any other comments.
  • Send a tasteful .jpg or .gif to the instructor that you want to represent you on the directory page.

    • Week 2

    T | 1.15 

    • Discuss Rhetoric and its application to this course 


      • Due

      • Read about Rhetoric (entire node), Purpose (entire node), and Readers (all five links); be 
        prepared to discuss these concepts and your opinions about these concepts. 
      • Read over the template of an email. Use these email composing techniques to compose an 

        • email to the instructor explaining how these rhetorical principles can be used to explain your          previous writing experiences both in your first language and in English; incorporate the principles of rhetoric by providing specific details from specific writing situations.
    TH | 1.17

    Week 3

    T | 1.22

    • Analysis of a job description 
    • Determining audience 
    Due
    • Bring a hardcopy of a sample Job Description, preferably one that represents a position that you would take (see Job Description Rationale).
    • Technology checklist as a hardcopy to the instructor
    TH | 1.24
    • Document discussion: Resumes and Web Resume
    • Document Design

      Due

      • In PWOnline read about Employment Documents: Read Resume (with the two links about design and content), the Resume Template, Web Resume (with the two links about design and content). Also read the Non-Designer's Design Book (go through all six links by clicking on the "NEXT" link at the bottom of each node). Think about how these principles apply to resume writing.
      • Read Web Resume Example #1 and Example #2. In a 250-350 word email addressed to the instructor (and cc: to yourself), explain what is effective or ineffective about each of these resumes. Use the principles discussed in both readings to guide your discussion.

    Week 4

    T | 1.29

    • Web Authoring

      Due

    TH | 1.31

    Week 5

    T | 2.5  

    Due

    • Bring two hard copies of a resume with an accompanying cover letter (one draft is for the instructor and the other draft is for your peer)

    TH | 2.7

    • Workshop

    Due

    Week 6 

    T | 2.12

    • Designing the rhetorical situations
    • Researching and reading legal documents

    Due 

    • Submit the Employment Documents Portfolio to the instructor as a series of hard copies placed in a manila folder.
    • Read the Digital Copyright Case assignment before class; be prepared to ask any questions about the assignment during class.

    TH | 2.14

    Due

     

    Week 7

    T | 2.19

    Activity: Interpreting Copyright Laws

    Due

    • Read the summary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and divide the reading of Title 17:
      Chapter 10 (Digital Audio Recording Devises And Media) and Chapter 11 (Sound Recordings
      And Music Videos) among your group. As you read these be thinking how they relate to your
      position as a writer in the Digital Copyright Case.
    • Research texts about recent court cases (1999 and after). Look for primary texts (the actual court case briefs) and secondary texts (articles about the court cases) with an understanding about how each serves as evidence. Coordinate with your group to find one court case per person in your group. Each person should read through the primary and secondary texts to gain a thorough understanding of one of these cases.
    • Get together with your group and share what you have learned.
    • As an individual, write a 500-750 word brief summary of the texts you read and explain how the court cases that you and/or your group looked at applied (or did not apply) to these laws. Also comment about how this information will be relevant to your approach of the DCC. Send it to the instructor and your group members before class.

     

    TH | 2.21 

    • Class Activity: International Copyright Laws
    • Visual Representation of Data

      Due

      • Research texts about international copyright laws. Look for primary texts (the actual laws or court cases), and secondary texts (articles about the laws or court cases).
      • Compose a "document" that you will present to the class (e.g., a memo to the class, a PowerPoint Presentation, a web page) in which you address the following issues in a 7-8 minute presentation.
        • Explain the different Digital Copyright Laws from the contexts that the members of your group are studying.
        • What are the significant differences between these international laws and the American Laws?
        • How will you apply these laws to the Digital Copyright Case? Do they support the American DC Laws or do they provide a loophole for you or the displeased artist.
      • Read about Using Visuals in Reports

     

    Week 8

    T | 2.26

    • Write the Supervisor Response Memo.
      • You will be giving the memo to the person's whose name is to the right of yours on the DCC Groups table (see Resource Page at the bottom); the last name on the list gives their memo to the person whose name is first on the list.
      • Turn in the memo to the instructor at the beginning of class. After you write your Supervisor Response Memo, turn the memo in to the instructor; you will have until 9:50.

    Due

    TH | 2.28

    Due

    • In PWOnline read about The Rhetoric of a Letter, the Template of a Letter and analyze the sample Bad News Letter. As you read through these links, keep in the mind the letter that you have to write to the displeased client in the Digital Copyright Case.
    • Look through the Letter Analysis activity for tomorrow, start thinking about the answers to the questions.
    • Extra Credit: Do a peer review of the Research Memo and the Business Letter for one peer in the class. Send the reviews to your peer as a MS Word attachment by Sunday, March 3, 2002 at 8pm; cc the instructor. You can earn up to ten points for each review.

    Week 9

    T | 3.5

    Due 

    • Submit the Digital Copyright Case Portfolio to the instructor as a series of hard copies placed in a manila folder.
    • Read the Media Solution Project assignment before class; be prepared to ask any questions about the assignment during class

    TH | 3.7

    Week 10

    T | 3.12 & TH | 3.14 No Class: Spring Break

    Week 11

    T | 3.19

    TH | 3.21

    Week 12

    T | 3.26

    Due

    • Submit Methodology Memo as a hard copy to the instructor by the end of class.
    • Bring hard copies of your research tools for every person in your group.

    TH | 3.28

    • Conference with the instructor about Methodology Memo
    • Workshop data collection and analysis

    Due

    Week 13 

    T | 4.2

    • Document Principle: Data Analysis

      Due

      • For each person in your group, bring to class a hard copy of an empty grid that has the following column titles across the top row (Research questions, answer, evidence collected, conclusions, preliminary recommendations, and notes), and has your own groups research questions going down the first column. DO NOT fill the rest of the grid in yet. Also bring enough copies of the data you have collected for each person in your group.
      • The instructor will need one group to volunteer both their data results and their research questions for a class activity and discussion; send this information to the instructor before 8pm on March 30th.

    TH | 4.4

    Due

    • In PWOnline refresh yourself about Building Arguments (entire node and six links at the bottom). Be prepared to apply the principles to the arguments that you are developing.

    Week 14 

    T | 4.9

    • Workshop: Writing Recommendation Report

    TH | 4.11

    Week 15

    T | 4.16

    • Workshop: Writing Recommendation Report

      Due

      • Bring materials to class to work on developing your recommendation report or your PowerPoint presentation

    TH | 4.18

    • Peer review

      Due

      • Each group needs to bring five or six hard copies of your Rough Draft to class (one for the instructor and four or five to be peer reviewed; these drafts can be in black and white and stapled together)
      • In the body of an email, send Status Email #4 to the instructor by 5pm April 19, 2002.

    Week 16

    T | 4.23

    • Presentations: International Film Series

      Due

      • For those group presenting, be prepared to deliver a twenty minute PowerPoint presentation to your client; you will also have ten minutes for Q&A. Submit a final version of your PowerPoint Presentation as email attachment to the instructor at least thirty minutes before class. Also include any URLs for web sites that you want to present during the presentation.

    TH | 4.25

    • Presentations: Khana Khazana

      Due

      • For those group presenting, be prepared to deliver a twenty minute PowerPoint presentation to your client; you will also have ten minutes for Q&A. Submit a final version of your PowerPoint Presentation as email attachment to the instructor at least thirty minutes before class. Also include any URLs for web sites that you want to present during the presentation.

    FR | 4.26

    • Last Day of Class

    Due

    Final's Week

    No Class