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1. Welcome!
2. CCC Academic Honesty Policy
3. Plagiarism Review
4. Overview
5. Course Objectives
6. Course Learning Activities
7. How You Will Be Evaluated
8. My Expectations
9. Course Communication
10. Participating in a Discussion
11. Assignments and Quizzes
12. What's Due When
13. Taking an On Line Course
14. Using Design to Improve Understanding
15. Written Assignment, Deliveryman Note
16. Discussion Grading Rubric
17. Discussion examples
18. Deliveryman Note Discussion
19. What's Due When
20. Audience/Purpose/Message
21. Self/Source/Audience- the three components of Tech Writing
22. Evaluating Technical Writing
23. Parallelism worksheet
24. Knowing Your Audience
25. Parallelism
26. Mini-lesson: Parallelism
27. Instructions for Organizational Summaries
28. Organizational Summaries
29. Discussion: Technical Documents
30. What's Due When
31. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
32. Cover sheets for assignments
33. Five Concepts to Strengthen Professional Writing
34. The Two-Pronged Approach To Technical Writing
35. What is the Writer/Reader Relationship?
36. Avoiding Passive Voice
37. The Passive versus Active Voice Dilemma
38. Point System Review
39. Newsletter summary
40. Newsletter Summary Example
41. Writing the Newsletter Summary (with Cover Sheet)
42. Newsletter discussion
43. What's Due When
44. The Power of Correspondence
45. Bad-News Formula
46. Resumes can be powerful, too!
47. Information to be included in resumes
48. Sample resume
49. Additional sample resumes
50. Block formats for correspondence
51. Memo example
52. Information needed for cover sheet
53. Memorandum explaining how to write a memo
54. Cover Sheet Review
55. Instructions for Letter of Inquiry
56. Letter of Inquiry, with Cover Sheet
57. Instructions for Letter of Application/Resume
58. Letter of Application/Resume, With Cover Sheet
59. Writing a Memorandum
60. Bad News Discussion
61. Job Search Discussion
62. What's Due When
63. Incorporating Text into Graphics
64. Readability
65. Readability Factors
66. Instructions-Process Descriptions
67. Set of Instructions/Process Description Examples
68. Set of Instructions Example
69. Cover Sheet Review
70. Instructions for Assignment #6
71. Instructions/Process Description
72. Simple Instructions Discussion
73. What's Due When
74. Facts, Inferences and Judgments
75. Press Release
76. Press Release Sample
77. Tips for Writing a SuccessfulPress Release
78. Instructions for Press Release
79. Fact, Inference, Judgment Discussion
80. Media Responsibility Discussion
81. What's Due When
82. Technical Reports- Proposals
83. Instructions for the Proposal
84. Proposal Sample
85. Proposal Discussion
86. Answers to Facts/Inferences/Judgments from Module 6
87. What's Due When Final Project
88. Comparison/Contrast
89. Document 1 (from David McMurray's Online Technical Writing)
90. Document 2, Resume (from David McMurray, Online Technical Writing)
91. Creating a Table
92. Comparison Memo
93. Writing the Comparison Memo, with Table
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