Goals

Read posts and watch videos that address all course goals:

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
• Interpret research findings with understanding of ethical and human implications. [CLO 3]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]
• Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
• Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]

The Task

What I Want You to Do

Read optional posts and watch related videos and then apply the information to the projects that you are working on.

Why I Want You to Do It

These additional resources provide short, specific advice and strategies that will help you improve your work in the course.

How You Do It

Each class day, from Tuesday to Friday, you can do the following:

1. Check the Twitter feed for @HokieTengrrl, which you will find on the course home in Canvas under the “Canvas Announcements & Course Advice” heading.
   • Note: No readings are added on Mondays, during the weekend, or on Spring Break Days.
2. Click the link in the daily Tweet to visit the related page.
3. Read the post and, if relevant, watch the related video at any point during the week. You do not have to read them on the same day they are posted.
4. Add full details on your optional readings in your Weekly Work Log.

Obtaining the Points for Your Work

If you read the optional posts and/or watch the related videos, you will track your work and claim the points. Be sure to complete the following tasks:

• Track your work in your Weekly Work Log.
• Claim points for reading the optional posts when you complete the Optional Reading Activities Self-Assessment  in Canvas. The first reading assessment covers the month of February. Later posts will be assessed in weekly self-assessment quizzes. Note the following guidelines:
  • You claim points only for those posts that you read.
  • Skip any posts you like. There’s no penalty. You just won’t earn points.
  • Claim points only for posts during the week being assessed. No time travel to previous posts.
• Traci will review your work by comparison to Canvas analytics:
  • If she finds that points have been claimed for pages that were not visited, she will adjust the points earned.
  • Otherwise, your points will not change.