Writ. 310--Business Writing
Writ. 310--Business Writing
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Welcome to Writing 310! This is a supplementary webpage, designed to complement our class. It will provide you with a quick overview of the course and syllabus as well as with useful links and a discussion board where you can "chat" with other students outside class.
Required Text
Guffey, Mary Ellen. Essentials of Business Communication/Infotrac Edition. Thomson/South-Western. 2003. 6th Edition. ISBN: 0324185359
Other Required Items
• 2-3 high double-density disks or a CD blank
• Access to a computer and the Web/email outside the classroom
• Microsoft Office XP (Win) or Microsoft Office X (Mac)
Course Description and Objectives
The goal of this course is to help you communicate effectively in the business world, both in writing and in oral settings. As an advanced course in writing, it will familiarize you with the discourse practices common in your future institutional communities within mono- as well as in multi-cultural settings and aide you in applying them to your own work.
Course Requirements
1) Three Major Writing Projects, each consisting of several smaller assignments, compiled in three portfolios. Each project requires several drafts to be work-shopped in class.
2) In-class mock job interview
3) In-class Power Point presentation, based on portfolio 3
4) Final Exam
5) In-class writings and participation in class
The Three Portfolios
Portfolio # 1: Job Applications
• résumé (draft, group comments, and final)
• sample application letter (draft, group comments, and final)
• URL for on-line résumé
• minutes from in-class interviews
Portfolio # 2: Business Correspondence
• Memos
• Routine business letter (draft, groups comments, and final)
• Good news letter (draft, group comments, and final)
• Bad news letter (draft, group comments, and final)
• Persuasion letter (draft, group comments, and final)
Portfolio # 3: Research Project and Presentation
• Proposal for research project
• Draft of project and group comments
• Final, polished version of research project
• Power Point Presentation slides and notes
Class Discussion
In class we will discuss various situations and problems in the business world and interweave discussions of texts and their techniques of writing with our own writing projects. We will also analyze each other’s writings as well as workshop our projects. Since the success of our class depends on your active participation, I expect you to take part in class discussion.
Attendance
Attendance is required, since class discussion is such an integral part of the course. More than 4 absences will result in a lowered grade, up to and including “F.” Three late arrivals to class will be considered one absence, as will three early “departures” or leaving and returning to class while it is in session. If you have to miss any class, you are responsible for all materials covered and all assignments due that day. In-class work cannot be made up.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of passing off somebody else’s work as your own, whether it is literally “stealing” somebody else’s work word-for-word or using somebody else’s ideas without acknowledging so, even if you put them in your own words, or relying too heavily on an outside editing source. Plagiarism demonstrates contempt for ethical standards, your instructor, and your peers. Thus, if you hand in plagiarized work, you will receive zero credit for the assignment and risk failing the course.
Grading
• Portfolio # 1: 10 %
• Interview (both as interviewer
and interviewee): 10 %
• Portfolio # 2: 20 %
• Portfolio # 3: 20 %
• Power Point Presentation: 15 %
• Final Exam: 15 %
• Class Participation: 10 %
Have Fun in our Class!!!!