Advanced Report and Proposal Writing
ENG 360 - Medaille College - Spring 2012
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Welcome!
How does this course fit into the rest of the curriculum and your career?
My education prepared me for the world represented by the image on the right. This course is preparing you for the world represented by the course logo at the top of this page.
I was taught to write, format, and distribute documents. This course is teaching you to write, format, and distribute information.
The old flow: words --> documents --> printer --> file cabinet or bookshelf.
The new flow: words --> content management system --> internet --> screen.
The old process involved ink and paper. Even when computers were added, the process was digital through the writing, editing, and processing up until the last moment when ink was squeezed onto dead trees.
The new process is competely digital. You're welcome to print at any time, of course. Which leads to the biggest difference:
In the old world, if you wanted something to be read by large numbers of people, you printed it on paper. In the new world, if you don't want something to be read by large numbers of people, you print it on paper.
Scenario One
You have one of those jobs that you want to get with your college degree. It is a large organization, and you work in one relatively large department, say, marketing or human resources. The IT (information technology) department has set up a wiki for your department, just as they have for every other department. Now, the employees in your department are supposed to use this wiki to collaborate on their next quarterly report.
Your boss (left) complains that no one in the department knows anything about this wiki stuff, and IT is too busy to really help. Plus, they're IT, and they don't know anything about your department. Nor do you want them to.
If you do well in this course, you will be prepared to
say to your boss, "I can do that. I can maintain and manage our wiki
and show everyone how to use it."
Scenario Two
A guy you knew in college dropped out to join a band. Turns out they're doing pretty well. The band has a web site, of course, with pictures and stories and background stuff. And they have a strong Facebook presence, too. In fact, they're getting so popular that the one Facebook page can't contain it all. Too many people commenting, too many links, too many different kinds of information like schedules of upcoming dates and "official" song lyrics and images from previous concerts and bootleg concert recordings and the all-important advance ticket sales.
If you do well in this course, you will be prepared to say to your friend, "I can set up and run a community site for your band's fans to communicate with each other and with the band. We can do everything that Facebook does, and much more, including selling tickets and t-shirts."
ENG 360 will probably be the geekiest course you will
take because it is preparing you for a world, both work and leisure,
private and public, that will be increasingly online.
What you're going to do in this course:
Find out all the official stuff. How is this course described in the college catalog? What are you going to know more about and know how to do better? What's the self-assessment all about?
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I am always doing what I cannot do, in
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This is the page to bookmark. It will change often and be the place to learn what we're going to do in class and what you should do before class.
In this course, you'll learn by doing, by researching and thinking and writing. Learn more about what you're going to write as well as the constraints and expectations.
The progress you're making on completing the course assignments. What are the other students doing? When is yours scheduled? How will they be evaluated?
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modified: January 18, 2012
by: Doug Anderson
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do it.