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ENGL 3106: Professional Comm

Course Requirements

Required Materials

Guffey, Mary Ellen. Business Communication: Process and Product. 6th ed. Mason, OH: South-Western, 2001.
Floppy Disks
Soft-Cover Writing Folder with Pockets (for turning in assignments)
An email address

Recommended Texts

Castro, Elizabeth. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web. Peachpit Press, 1999.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan.

Distribution of Grades

This course’s activities center around four major components:

For individual due dates, see the schedule.

Daily / Weekly Assignments

You will design and prepare documents that mirror writing situations encountered by professionals. Some of the types of documents that you will create will include Emails, Memos, Recommendation Requests, Résumés, Letters of Application, Interview Summaries, Various Formal Letters, Formal Reports (Proposals/Feasibility Studies), Group Company Projects, and/or Personal Web Pages. Also, we will do a variety of in-class writing activities that will enhance your ability to create these documents.

Web Portfolio

Each student is required to construct and keep up-to-date a Web Portfolio. The purpose of the portfolio will be to present yourself to a prospective employer by including the information below. Students may construct their class homepages in a format of their choosing, but they must be aware of aesthetic and stylistic concerns and include the following:

• Index Page / Introduction
• Links to Sites Relevant to Area of Expertise (Including Class Project)
• Professional Autobiography
• Résumé
• "Mailto:" Link
• Hypermedia and Multimedia
• Writing Samples

Portfolios will be graded by content, organization, and aesthetics in that order of importance. This component of the course will require a strong familiarity with the World Wide Web. “Browsing” and “surfing” are integral for students to gain a knowledge of HTML aesthetics and design; this endeavor must begin immediately and should be continued independently and aggressively throughout the portfolio’s development. A full multimedia page is encouraged.

Web design, like any other creative undertaking, requires a specific literacy and competency which should be displayed in each portfolio’s design. Students wishing to collaborate on this requirement may do so with my approval.

Oral Presentation

Each student, or students if two or more would like to combine efforts, will each be required to research a career, one that they may be contemplating or already have, and present that career to the class. Some sort of presentation software (Web site, PowerPoint, etc.) should be utilized, and the presentation should be no longer than fifteen minutes.

Final Exam

The instructor will reserve the right to give a final cumulative exam based on class lectures, discussions, assignments, and reading. If the class handles itself and its assignments with enthusiastic professionalism, a final exam can certainly be avoided.