*Note: Required readings and homework are listed on the day they are due. For example, at the start of class on Monday August 31th, you should have read chapters 3-5 in the Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring as well as the linked PDF to Locker chapter 3. This schedule may change based on our individual progress as a class. You will be notified in advance (usually in class as well as a follow-up email) of any changes made to the schedule.
*Downloadable GoogleDoc of schedule
*Downloadable GoogleDoc of schedule
Date Topics & Activities Reading & Writing
Aug. 24
Aug. 31 Sept. 7 Sept. 14 Sept. 21 Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 26 Nov. 2 |
Welcome! Introductions and course overview; setting up a WC account
The consulting process and ethics; rhetoric and business conventions; sign-up for observations No class-- Labor Day Resumes and cover letters; consultation best practices Memos, emails, and reports Troubleshooting difficult sessions and frustrated or reluctant writers ESL writing Online consulting Complex or high-stakes writing assignments; team writing and consulting with teams Presentations consultations; visual/design rhetoric Final reflections, tour of the HWI, procedures and resources at the HWI, and pizza party! |
Longman Guide chapters 1 and 2
Longman Guide chapters 3, 4, and 5; BAC chapter 3 Start observation journals, Business Writing Matters chapters 2 and 3, Wingate "What Line?" Longman chapter 6; Business Writing Matters chapter 6; Make sure to have access to your resume Memo/report handouts; BAC pages on email, memo, and reports, BWM chapters 5 and 7 Longman chapter 13; Macauley's "Setting a 30 Minute Agenda"; Harris' "Talk To Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers" Longman chapter 9; ESL Writers chapters 4 & 7 Make sure to have access to Google Hangout; Thomas' "5 Tips for Online Conferencing;" Tarsa's "Video Conferencing;" Dominguez's "Tutoring with my Laptop" Read MKT and ACC assignment sheets; Handout on Group Writing; Jarrett's piece on team writing Longman chapter 7; Presentation Zen chp 6; Angeles' "36 Ways to Make a Killer Business Presentation" Final observation journals due, but no reading journals due! |