ENGL 2150: Technical Writing

Fall 2007 | Section 1
M C Morgan, Prof English | my email∞ | Morgan's Wiki∞

CourseSyllabus | CourseStatement
Older assignments are on the CourseSyllabus page.

projects

InstructionManualProject
WhatIsATutorial

• FacebookManual
• BlackjackManual
• GuideToiMovie08
• MaddenManual
• WomensManualToWeightTraining
• LastFMManual
• GuidetoSims2
• RuneScapeCombatManual
• DeerHuntingManual
• NewPuppyTraining
• WalleyeFishingManual
• HockeyEquipmentSizingManual
• GuideToFirstCarOwnership

Tues 27 Nov

• For Tues: Chap 10: Professional Secrets: to apply to your manual
• Embedding and linking to images in wiki: UsingImages
• sidebars in wiki: UsingSideBars
• Start tech editing tutorial: Imagine how the tutorial will be used. As a sheet of paper while shopping? As a pamphlet next to the computer?
• Start drafting your guide
• FormattingRules has all the formatting codes, including colored text and background.

Thurs 29 Nov

• Review of Chap 10, with forays into Chap 18 (Editing) and 20 (Punctuation).
• pace, examples, tone
• Workday. Attendance required.
• Work with and consult Rosenberg as you draft and revise the guide.

Deadlines: Tues 4 Dec: Start of class

• CopyEditingExerciseNotes
• CopyEditingExerciseGroup1
• CopyEditingExerciseGroup2
• CopyEditingExerciseGroup3
• CopyEditingExerciseGroup4
• CopyEditingExerciseGroup5

• Draft of guide complete, ready for tech editing. Read and comment in class.
• Tech and literary editing of tutorial complete. Ready for final copy editing. See chaps 18 and 20.
• Rough draft of preface, FAQ, or glossary started

Thurs 6 Dec

• Review and commenting on guides for tech and literary editing
• Tech editing
• Keep moving forward. Late means reduced points and less opportunity of feedback and lower grade.

Tues 11 Dec

• Last day of class. Time to work. Course Evaluations. Cookies.
• Before submitting, give your work a final copyediting for sentence construction, concision, spelling, and mechanics.
• When your project is ready to submit, email me: mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu∞
• Part of what you're learning in this class is How to decide when a technical writing project is complete and ready for distribution. The Rosenberg text will help you decide. Check what you have done against chap 11: Manuals, as well as chap 10 and chap 18.
• Final due date for InstructionManualProject: Tues 18 Dec., 1:00 pm.

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On deck

• Uploading images to wiki: UploadingImages
• Final copy editing: concision for clarity. Chap 20 et al.

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Getting Started on this Wiki

Login (I'll give participants login instructions, or email me∞), then double-click on any page or click on the "Edit page" link at the bottom to get started.

GettingStarted has basic editing and formatting instructions. SandBox is a space to practice editing. Our StyleGuide lists wiki writing conventions.

Participants

BrianAlexander | ElizabethBarclay | AndreBell | DawnDeMarr | JessicaDudley | MeganErickson | JerodFischer | KatyGehrke | DerekHarvieux | JustinJohnson | JonathanKirk | RyanLavanger | ErikLundin | BaileyOberschmid | MagdaSchmidt | AbiTarutis | JessicaTheroux | CrystalThompson | MelanieWalen || AspenE || MorganMC

Proposal Projects

ProposalProject | HumaneSocietyProject | BSUEquipmentProject | ActivityCenterProject | LitMagProject | AquaticArenaProject | ComputerCampusProject | RestaurantProject.

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