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WRT
307: Professional Writing |
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TTh
11:30 Bowne 108 37959 |
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| Supervisor:
Justin Bain |
Office:
HBC 005 |
| Home
Phone: 446-3405 |
Hours:
W 10-11 |
| Email:
justbain@hotmail.com |
Phone:
443-1412 |
Job
Description
| This
course is designed to teach professional communication through the
study of audience, purpose, and ethics. Individually, and as a class,
we will consider these rhetorical elements in the context of your
potential future workplaces/occupations and through a simulated
workplace environment within our classroom. Throughout the semester
you will learn rhetorical problem-solving principles and apply them
to diverse professional writing tasks and situations. |
| Your
final salary for this job (your grade, as well as what you learn)
will depend primarily on your ability to do your job: complete writing
tasks, assignments, research, and presentations effectively and
in a timely manner. That said, as with any workplace, the ability
to get along with your co-workers and supervisor in a professional
and collegial manner is also important. In planning to be part of
this workplace, consider this somewhat somber fact: as your supervisor,
I am part of an hierarchical system of power, one in which you are
also implicated—if work is not completed on time or to my satisfaction,
you can be fired and replaced. Welcome to your first day on the
job. |
Job
Goals
| Employees
will learn to write for their workplaces by investigating those
sites, researching writing in their fields, and taking responsibility
for their own learning. |
| Employees
will present their learning to their peers via oral, textual, and
electronic means. Employees will learn techniques of document design
and copyediting. |
| Employees
will produce a range of professional genres and will learn to apply
their knowledge to new situations. |
| Employees
will learn to collaborate ethically and responsibly and to manage
tasks concurrently. |
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Employees will produce post-university, professional writing; the
major products of this course—at least one of which will be
a sustained, multiple-product group project—will be exclusively
of this type. |
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Employees will incorporate appropriate technologies in class processes
and products and address the effects of current technologies on
professional communications. |
| Employees
will engage in the multimedia publication of information. |
| Employees
will write and read non-traditional, non-paper, hypermedia as they
occur in the workplace. |
Texts
and Materials
| Course
Reader from Copy Services in Marshall Square Mall—I will let
you know when the reader is available. |
| Approximately
$20 for copy expenses over the course of the semester. |
Grading
| Unit
#1: |
The
resume and professional introduction 15%
Who you are, for whom, why, and how |
| Unit
#2: |
Defining
your profession and your writing tasks 15%
Learning through interviews and professional journals |
| Unit
#3: |
Memos,
electronic correspondence, and reports 30%
Case statements, proposals, and grants |
| Unit
#4: |
Presentations,
media, and technology 30%
Multi-product group project with calendar required
Accounting for your time |
| Final
Paper |
Specifics to come 10% |
Attendance
| As
new employees, you have two sick days and two vacation days to use
at your discretion. This class is designed to function as a workplace
environment: it will be necessary to call in sick by 9 a.m. if you
will not be able to make it to class and vacation days must be asked
for (and approved) at least one week in advance. Please ask me for
vacation request forms as needed. If you exceed your allotted amount
of sick and/or vacation days, you will be docked pay (grade) as
well as miss important information. If you must miss a day of work,
you are responsible for determining what you missed and catching
up on your tasks. |
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we begin each unit you will be given a calendar outlining that unit’s
schedule and assignments, but keep in mind that we may shift assignments
or change directions occasionally as it seems appropriate, necessary,
or interesting. |
Your
Writing
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texts written in this course become company property. You will be
asked to share them with co-workers and with me. It is understood
that registration for and continued enrollment in this course constitutes
permission by the student for the instructor to use any work resulting
from the course. |
Statement
on Plagiarism
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academic community requires ethical behavior from all of its participants.
For writers, this means that the work we claim as ours must truly
be ours. At the same time, we are not always expected to come up
with new ideas; we often build and model our thinking on the ideas
of others. We are expected, however, to credit others with their
contributions and to clearly indicate the boundaries of our own
thinking. Failure to do so in the university in general and in this
course in particular will result in serious consequences for the
offender, including reprimands such as lowered grades, failure,
or even dismissal. That said, we will discuss the boundaries, implications,
and consequences of plagiarism in the workplace. |
Special
Needs
| If
you require consideration for a special need or circumstance of
any kind, please see your supervisor. Also, Syracuse University
is fortunate to have a Writing Center staffed by consultants with
experience with a range of disciplinary writing and pedagogy; I
invite you to make use of the facility. |
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