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WRA 420 Advanced Technical Writing, Spring 2008

Recent Class Materials
Syllabus

More practice questions
Session 18 Notes (Presentation Guidelines Here)

Library Project Info
Library Proposal draft
Research Questions

News and Updates Brief Schedule
Your To Do List through 4/9:
  1. Draft your library presentation for peer run-through on Thursday 4/9
Student Pages
Bhattacharyya, Shampa
Blon, Noah
Crandall, Dave
Groskinski, Toni
Harder, Jeremy
Hoekman, Angeline
Palinsky, Lindsay
Reyes, Roberto
Tower, Christina
Walter, Keith

Helpful Links
TC Library
CSS Links: A Compendium of Style Sheet Info!
Reference: Webmonkey's CSS Properties Page
Inspiration: CSS Zen Garden
Digital Web Magazine
A List Apart
Webmonkey

In-Class Exercises
Session 1 - Project Page
Session 2 - CSS & Poster objects
Session 3 - XML tags for your poster topic area
Session 4 - DITA file for your poster topic area
Session 6 - Poster mock-up Session 7 - Practice exam question outline
Session 14 - MSU News Release FAQ
Session 15 - MSU News Release Information Model
Session 17 - metadata for ATW exercise posting
Session 17 - swimlane diagram
Date
In Class...
T 1/8Session 1 [PPT]: Introductions; Post individual project pages. What is 'content'?
R 1/10Session 2 [PPT]: P1 Introduction; Seperating structure from content...why? or the Zen of Style Sheets; Read Applen (pdf), Crowley (pdf), & Geisler, et. al. (pdf)
T 1/15Session 3 [PPT]: Editorial teams present P1 mockups ; Read Carliner (pdf);
R 1/17Session 4 [PPT]: Semantic markup 1; ; read DITA info (pdf)
T 1/22Session 5 [PPT]: Semantic markup 2; Read Wright (pdf), Williams & Spyridakis (pdf)
R 1/24Session 6 [PPT]: Post Draft of Poster for Review & Testing Today
T 1/29Session 7 : Final exam practice question; Read Rockley Ch. 1, Ch. 14;
R 1/31Session 8 [PPT]: Revised poster components posted; Intro to P2 Information Model Analysis; Read Rockley Ch. 2 & 3Ch. 4 & 5; Mambrey & Robinson (pdf)
T 2/5Session 9 [PPT]: Analyzing Genres & Tasks
R 2/7Session 10 [PPT]: Analyzing Genres & Tasks; Read Rockely Ch. 6; Derose et. al. (pdf)
T 2/12Session 11[PPT]: Analyzing Objects & Views; Price (pdf), Johnsen (pdf)
R 2/14Session 12 [PPT]: Analyzing Objects & Views day 2; Price (pdf), Johnsen (pdf)
R 2/19Session 13 [PPT]: Workflows & Production Models; Read Rockley Ch. 5 & 7;
R 2/21Session 14 [PPT]: Analysis Plans; Read Rockley Ch. 8,9,10
T 2/26Session 15 [PPT]: P2 proposal drafting
R 2/28Session 16 [PPT]: P2 presentation guidelines; Data presentation formats; Read Rockely Ch. 11; Suchman "Visible" (pdf);
T 3/4Spring Break
R 3/6Spring Break
T 3/11Session 17: P2 proposal revision, cont.
R 3/13Session 18 : P2 team's present inquiry plans; P3 intro
T 3/18Session 19: No Class Meeting - Library Visit/Research
R 3/20Session 20: P3 ideas discussed today;
T 3/25Session 21 : P3 teams first report - data visualization; Final Exam Practice Question;
R 3/27Session 22: Usability Re-Imagined; Read Petersen et. al.; Thomas & Macredie
T 4/1Session 23: Preliminary Report Format Guidelines; Work and Texts; Geisler (pdf)
R 4/3Session 24 : No class; Bill at ATTW /CCCC
T 4/8Session 25: Consultations on Report w/ Bill H-D; Paul et. al. (pdf); Mirel (pdf)
R 4/10Session 26 : Preliminary Report to the Library Today;
T 4/15Session 27: Paper & Documents; Sellen & Harper (pdf); Peels et. al. (pdf); Lagerwerf & Bossers (pdf)
R 4/17Session 28 : TC Work Haller (pdf); Hart-Davidson (pdf); Spinuzzi & Zachry (pdf)
T 4/22Session 29: Final Report Copy-Editing Session; final exam questions posted today
R 4/24Session 30 : Final Reports due