1. Introduce yourselves<\/span><\/h5>\nFirst, you will\u00a0attempt\u00a0two kinds of\u00a0introductions, one more intimate and the other more aggregative; that is,\u00a0after you\u00a0spend time exchanging\u00a0names, majors, and career plans, you will\u00a0turn to the data you\u00a0provided in your surveys. Before you\u00a0do that, though, I’ll provide an\u00a0overview\u00a0of the syllabus.<\/p>\n
2. Discuss yourselves in relation to professional writing<\/h5>\n
We’ll first take a minute to make sure everyone completed a survey. You’ll then look over Google’s\u00a0response summary<\/a> from the survey I sent you. With a partner, come up with some tentative answers to the following question:<\/p>\nWhat patterns do you notice with this dataset and what might they say about the experiences and goals of the members of this class, especially when it comes to professional writing?<\/em><\/p>\nLet’s\u00a0also try to define professional writing and reflect on some of the ways you’ve already begun to learn\u00a0how to write like one.<\/p>\n
3. Begin drafting bios<\/h5>\n
At the top of this page, you’ll notice a Meet the Team<\/a> link. At the moment, I’m the only person listed. While we can certainly use my bio\u00a0as a template, I’d rather have us talk about what we’d like there (we should also acknowledge that writing these ain’t easy, as the Tweets to the right can attest).<\/p>\nAs this Smashing Magazine article<\/a>\u00a0makes clear, the point of a team page\u00a0is to establish credibility\u00a0with outside audiences; however, since we don’t have any outside audiences, our goal is to establish credibility with each other — and to have some fun doing it. So let’s look at that article and review some of the basic trends, then develop our own criteria, which I’ll post on the course site.<\/p>\nIf there’s time, you should begin drafting a bio using this\u00a0TinyMCE editor<\/a>. \u00a0Once you have a draft, grab the html\u00a0code by cutting and pasting\u00a0the “Source”\u00a0button (see image below). This is important as I will use the html to code our page on this course site.<\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/www.courses.jasonluther.net\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-10.19.59-PM-1.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nOnce you\u2019re happy with your design (in class or not), grab the html by\u00a0copying and pasting it into a new document that you\u2019ll have\u00a0access to\u00a0class on Thursday.\u00a0Also for Thursday, read \u201cChapter 3: Defining Your Communication\u2019s Objectives: Purpose, Reader, Context\u201d and\u00a0pp 5-10 (\u201cCharacteristics of workplace writing\u201d) in our textbook. In class, we\u2019ll review the bios and watch and take notes on\u00a0Helvetica<\/em>\u00a0(2007), considering how the film presents a rhetorical analysis of typeface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today you\u00a0will do 3\u00a0things: Introduce yourselves and listen to an overview of the syllabus Discuss yourselves in relation to professional writing Begin drafting bios 1. Introduce yourselves First, you will\u00a0attempt\u00a0two kinds of\u00a0introductions, one more intimate and the other more aggregative; … Continue reading
What patterns do you notice with this dataset and what might they say about the experiences and goals of the members of this class, especially when it comes to professional writing?<\/em><\/p>\n Let’s\u00a0also try to define professional writing and reflect on some of the ways you’ve already begun to learn\u00a0how to write like one.<\/p>\n At the top of this page, you’ll notice a Meet the Team<\/a> link. At the moment, I’m the only person listed. While we can certainly use my bio\u00a0as a template, I’d rather have us talk about what we’d like there (we should also acknowledge that writing these ain’t easy, as the Tweets to the right can attest).<\/p>\n As this Smashing Magazine article<\/a>\u00a0makes clear, the point of a team page\u00a0is to establish credibility\u00a0with outside audiences; however, since we don’t have any outside audiences, our goal is to establish credibility with each other — and to have some fun doing it. So let’s look at that article and review some of the basic trends, then develop our own criteria, which I’ll post on the course site.<\/p>\n If there’s time, you should begin drafting a bio using this\u00a0TinyMCE editor<\/a>. \u00a0Once you have a draft, grab the html\u00a0code by cutting and pasting\u00a0the “Source”\u00a0button (see image below). This is important as I will use the html to code our page on this course site.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re happy with your design (in class or not), grab the html by\u00a0copying and pasting it into a new document that you\u2019ll have\u00a0access to\u00a0class on Thursday.\u00a0Also for Thursday, read \u201cChapter 3: Defining Your Communication\u2019s Objectives: Purpose, Reader, Context\u201d and\u00a0pp 5-10 (\u201cCharacteristics of workplace writing\u201d) in our textbook. In class, we\u2019ll review the bios and watch and take notes on\u00a0Helvetica<\/em>\u00a0(2007), considering how the film presents a rhetorical analysis of typeface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today you\u00a0will do 3\u00a0things: Introduce yourselves and listen to an overview of the syllabus Discuss yourselves in relation to professional writing Begin drafting bios 1. Introduce yourselves First, you will\u00a0attempt\u00a0two kinds of\u00a0introductions, one more intimate and the other more aggregative; … Continue reading 3. Begin drafting bios<\/h5>\n
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