- Time Required
- 6 to 8 hours, including reading time
This module explores how audience and purpose shape technical writing and how persuasion can help you make effective recommendations.
The concepts you read about this week apply to every project you will do in the course—and ultimately to the projects you will do in the workplace.
Objectives for this Module
After completing this week’s activities, you address the following course objectives:
- 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]
- Prepare to conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
- Consider the ethical and human implications of my situation. [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]
Activities to Complete
Due Dates
- All work is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, September 10, 2021.
- Timely Feedback Date:Submit your by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, September 15, so I can give you feedback before you begin work on the report.
- Grace Period:
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, September 15 for your Work Log.
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Friday, December 3 for the rest of the week’s work.
✊⚒️🧰 Happy Labor Day! 🧰⚒️✊ No class on Monday, September 6
- I want you to take a break from this class this week. Please be sure to take some time off.
- There will be no Discussing work this week, since we only have four days to work.
- I will take Monday off as well. Look for responses to any email or Canvas messages that you send me by Tuesday, September 7.
📚 To Read This Week
- Markel & Selber, Ch. 5: “Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose”
- One-sheet summary: “Determining the Important Characteristics of Your Audience”
- Markel & Selber, Ch. 8: “Communicating Persuasively”
- LinkedIn Learning, “Technical Writing & Audience Analysis Playlist”
📝 To Write This Week
- Complete the Audience Analysis Profile activity to shape the approach you will take in your Recommendation Report.
- Gather additional information for your report by completing the Chapter 05 Review and the Chapter 08 Review.
💬 To Discuss This Week
- No Discussing work since we have a day off for Labor Day.
📓 To Track This Week
- Track and reflect on the work you have done for the week in your Work Log for the Week of 09/06, reviewing the Weekly Work Log Guidelines if needed.