TCO 341 Week Four June 9, 2014

Webex session: 7:00-8:30 in Webex

Welcome to Week Three! Here are our learning objectives this week:

1. Peer review your resume and cover letter.
2. Continue the document analysis assignment.
3. Begin the feasibility report assignment

I. Document Analysis

One of the goals of our class is to help you become very critical of document design. To do this, you must learn three important concepts in writing technical documents:

1. Document Style
2. Overall Document Design
3. Design of Visuals in documents

Your next assignment is the Document Analysis assignment. I have grouped you into small groups and assigned a document to your group. Your job is to read the material below that explains how to analyze documents for these three concepts, and then as a group, analyze your assigned document and evaluate how well it accomplishes these three concepts. Then you will write a group report on your findings.

Here is your reading for this assignment:

Document Style -- Read only Section 3 of this document

Overall Document Design --

(1) article from Cypress Media

(2) Purdue OWL INDOT document design presentation -- click the presentation to download it -- it will come down as a PowerPoint file.

(3) Visual Design -- Designing Effective Documents for Visual Impact and (2) Purdue OWL HATS presentation for visual design -- download the PPT presentation

II. Resumes and Cover Letters

We'll go over resumes and cover letters in class on Monday. The document analysis report will be due June 16.

III. Feasibility Reports -- we'll discuss in class

Please read this explanation of feasibility reports.

Reflection and Discussion -- please complete by June 9

Our main goal this week is to learn how to analyze documents for style, basic design, and visuals. Now that you've obtained a basic understanding, go to our Google doc for the June 9 class discussion, glance over the document, and click into the Google doc and and respond to the prompt at the beginning of the page.

I'll see you Monday night in Webex!