Review for Quiz Seven

Hello Everyone,

Here is a quick review for Quiz Seven from a couple years ago, which covers Formal Reports and those pesky instructions. As usual, the review covers all the questions asked and goes over familiar material

So this week, you have a bit of review over reports (called Formal Reports previously) and Instructions.

Next week's quiz will cover Presentations, to keep the information fresh in your mind.
Thank you for your continued hard work and patience as we work through a rather hectic and demanding eight weeks.

Do a good job, Bill

Week Seven Hello

This video from Spring 2009 contains information of use for your final projects and the revisions that will occupy you over the next two weeks.

But know that the video covers reading materials from last week; I plan a new video, so keep watching the Announcement for Week Seven.

Greetings Technical Communicators,

This week and next, you will devote your time to your Final Projects and Revisions, which I will accept until midnight of the class's final day, a week from this next Sunday, March 3.

Here I talk about the chapters you read this term and in general about the week's work.


The term draws to a conclusion, so keep up.

Enjoy the week, Bill

Quiz For Week Six

Hello Everyone,

Here you will find this week's review for the quiz, Quiz Six this time around.

Only two more quizzes and the semester comes to a conclusion. Amazing.





Do a good job on the quiz and work hard on your final projects, the last major bit of writing you will do this term; the project is due the last official day of class.

See you next time around, Bill

Welcome to Week Six

Week Six Gets Underway

Hello Everyone,

This video from last year covers the writing assignment for last week that will help you with revisions.

In this short introduction to the week, I talk about the Final Project and last week's writing assignments--the video also talks about what you will discuss and write this week: directives.

We will return next week to Recommendation Reports and the other material covered in the final chapters.

This video offers more discussion of your final project you began to think about last week.

Enjoy a productive week, Bill

Quiz Five Review Video

Review for Quiz Five

Hello Technical Communicators, This video goes over the material from Chapters 14 and 15, from E-mail communication to resume organization.

Only one question concerns what we will discuss next week, writing proposals, which leads us to Informal and Formal Reports and the paper to which you presently give consideration.

And I give you the correct answer to that question right away.

Enjoy a pleasant weekend, Bill

Greetings for Week Five

Hello writers of Technical Communication,



We enter now the second half of a busy term, so congratulations for your sustained efforts.

And as this week's writing exercises indicate, we move this week to the term's completion. And while the weekly writing exercises do burden your busy schedule--especially with all the reading--the dividends, I assure you, pay off.

Though the business metaphor in times of toil and trouble might not fit all that well, the fact remains the same: the practice in the context the class establishes will only help you succeed.

So this week you will write what amounts to a short report and read about memorandum, letter, and e-mail communication, along with letters of application and resumes.

You conclude the reading by looking a proposals, to which we will return next wee,.

I wish you a successful week.

Bill

Review for Quiz Four

Quiz Review for WEEK FOUR

Hello Everyone,

We reach the half-way mark in this class--congratulations to one and all for your continued hard work.

Here you will find twenty questions that cover Chapters 11, 12, and 13; questions for Chapter 14 will appear on next week's quiz. And a couple questions refer to the important issues covered in Chapter 10, concerns you will continue to address in all your class work.

Listen carefully to the discussion, for I do touch on every question and want each of you to do an excellent job. 

And a couple questions refer to matters related to what the text has to say and to which I add a couple things.

Do a good job on the quiz, Bill

Welcome to Week Four

Greetings for the beginning for Week Four

Hello Everyone,


The end of this busy week marks the halfway point of this demanding schedule.





Congratulations to all who have kept up. 

And after this week, you will have plenty of material for revision. Remember: the revised grade replaces the mark for the previous effort, the reason I spend so much time on each assignment.


You have four chapters to read for this week; however, the exercises concentrate most of the effort on the first three. You have  choices from which to choose this week, and each asks that you compose a memorandum. 

Make sure to utilize a template.


The video discusses the writing assignments and introduce you to the material covered this week; do not pay attention to anything about Google Documents, for which I apologize.  You will all work with blogs instead, leading to the final project for the class I will address in a new video.

Watch this video for a brief discussion of Twitter and your Blog:

We will return to Chapter Fourteen again next week.


I wish you a productive week.


Bill