To do for November 2nd...
- Continue co-consulting; get as much solo experience as you can!
- Continue your observation journals: two 300-500 word entries or one 600-1000 word entry due by 11:59pm on Sunday, November 1
- Pat yourselves on the back for a successful semester :)
- Get pumped!
To do for October 26th...
- Continue co-consulting at the HWI per times signed-up for
- Continue your observation journals: two 300-500 word entries or one 600-1000 word entry due by 11:59pm on Sunday, October 25th
- Read Longman chapter 7; Presentation Zen chp 6; Angeles' 36 Ways to Make a Killer Business Presentation
- Continue your reading journals (the last of the semester!) (one 400 word minimum entry) due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 25th. As you read, consider the following questions:
- What are some of the foundations of business presentations in terms of design and delivery discussed in Angeles’ work and the Presentation Zen chapter? Feel free to provide examples of your own presentation experiences or online examples.
- What are some principles of design and delivery from that readings that you could use in a session?
- Based on your own experiences, what might you add to the strategies and guidelines detailed in the readings?
To do for October 19th
- Continue co-consulting at the HWI per times signed up for
- Continue your observation journals (two 300-500 word entries, or one 600-1000 word entry) due by 11:59pm on Sunday, October 18th
- Read MKT and ACC assignment sheets (in GoogleDrive folder); Handout on Group Writing; Jarrett's piece on team writing
- Continue your reading journals (one 400 word minimum entry) due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 18th. As you read, consider the following questions:
- As you might have already suspected or observed at the HWI, consulting with groups can make a session a bit more complicated. Based on the readings, what are the benefits of team writing?
- What are some potential challenges that you might typically see in a team session or a team-written document?
- What strategies can you extrapolate from the readings? How might you employ these strategies or others?
- Read Heidi's email and apply via the link she sent you. Feel free to set up a time to meet with Kathleen and/or Bridget if you want feedback on your resumes/cover letters
To do for October 12th...
- Continue co-consulting at the HWI per the times you signed up for
- Continue your observation journals (two 300-500 word entries, or one 600-1000 word entry) due by 11:59pm on Sunday, October 11th
- Read Thomas' "5 Tips for Online Conferencing;" Tarsa's "Video Conferencing;" Dominguez's "Tutoring with my Laptop"
- Continue your reading journals (one 400 word minimum entry due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 11th
- Make sure you have access to Google Hangout
As you read, consider the following questions and feel free to use one or all of them as a starting point for your reading journal:
- Based on the readings, how are online sessions different from face-to-face sessions? What is still the same?
- What do you anticipate are some of the challenges of online consulting? What do you think are some of the advantages of online consultations?
- What strategies from the texts might you employ in an online session? What are other strategies not detailed in the texts?
- How might your experiences with virtual conferences or meetings inform how you will consult online?
To do for October 5th...
- Begin your co-consulting sessions at the HWI.
- Continue your observation journals (two 300-500 word entries, or one 600-1000 word entry) due by 11:59pm on Sunday, October 4th
- Read Longman ch. 9, and ESL Writers chapters 4 & 7 (found in the reading folder of our GoogleDrive)
- Continue your reading journals (one 400 word minimum entry due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 4th
As you read, consider the following questions and feel free to use one or all of them as a starting point for your reading journals :
- In light of what Matsuda and Cox say in chapter 4 of ESL Writers, what might be some best practices for adapt your consulting style to an ESL session?
- In chapter 7 of ESL Writers, Staben and Dempsey Nordhaud write, "Tutoring sessions are as individual footprints: They may progress along a familiar pattern only to whorl suddenly off into new and unexpected directions" (81). Have you observed this happen in the HWI? Which of the strategies the authors present on pages 81-86 spoke to you the most?
- Which of the myths presented in Longman's chapter 9 complicate what you thought to be true of ESL writers and the sessions you might have with them in the HWI?
- Where do you think your expectations of ESL consultations came from, and how might those expectations have changed based on the readings this week?
To do for September 28th...
- Attend your observation sessions at the HWI.
- Continue your observation journals (Two 300-500 entries or one 600-1000 word entry), due by 11:59PM the Sunday before class.
- Read Longman chapter 13, Harris' "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers," and Macauley's "Setting the Agenda for the Next 30 Minutes," found in the reading folder in google drive.
- Continue your reading journals (One 400 word entry), due by 11:59PM the Sunday before class
As you read consider the following questions:
- The Longman guide discusses a variety of different scenarios in chapter 13 -- take some time to reflect upon some of these scenarios: what would you do as a writing consultant in this situations? What questions would you ask? What resources would you offer? At what point would you end a session?
- What do you find useful in Harris and Macauley's and suggestions? What might be helpful in their discussion in reference to engaging a reluctant reader? What might you add to their suggestions and perspectives?
To do for next class (August 31st)...
Please read Longman Guide chapters 3, 4, and 5 as well as BAC chapter 3 (PDF in our shared Google folder), and post your reading response to your document in the reading response Google folder by 11:59pm on Sunday August 30th.
As you read, consider the following questions and feel free to use them as a guide for your response:
As you read, consider the following questions and feel free to use them as a guide for your response:
- Based on your reading from the BAC text, what characterizes effective business writing?
- What is goodwill and how can you build it in your own writing (name some specific examples)?
- Based on your readings in The Longman Guide, how might you prepare, support, and guide students through building effective business writing?
- What is the process of a typical writing center session, according to The Longman Guide?
- What do you find especially important or interesting in Gillespie and Lerner’s description of a writing center session?
Welcome!
Welcome to Business 203: Business Writing Consulting! We are Kathleen Coffey and Bridget Gelms (you can call us Kathleen and Bridget), as we will be your co-instructors for this course. We're looking forward to meeting you all, but in the meantime feel free to get acclimated by looking around on our course site. This main page is where you can find major announcements or materials for class. Be sure to bookmark this site and check it often. The navigation bar above will take you to various information-- the syllabus, the tentative schedule, and descriptions of the major projects you'll complete for the course.
This semester we will meet on Mondays from 6-8:05 pm in Farmer School of Business room 0021 (in the basement). Class begins on August 24th and ends on November 2nd.
In class on the 24th, we will get acquainted with each other before spending some time going over all of this information so don't feel obligated to read this site thoroughly beforehand. As stated in our email, we'll also spend some time discussing Longman chapters 1 & 2. As you read, consider these questions:
If you have any questions please reach us at either [email protected] or [email protected]. We're looking forward to it-- it will be a fun and productive semester!
This semester we will meet on Mondays from 6-8:05 pm in Farmer School of Business room 0021 (in the basement). Class begins on August 24th and ends on November 2nd.
In class on the 24th, we will get acquainted with each other before spending some time going over all of this information so don't feel obligated to read this site thoroughly beforehand. As stated in our email, we'll also spend some time discussing Longman chapters 1 & 2. As you read, consider these questions:
- How does Longman define the writing process?
- What is your own writing process? What strategies do you employ when starting a project?
If you have any questions please reach us at either [email protected] or [email protected]. We're looking forward to it-- it will be a fun and productive semester!