• Class introduction and course overview
• Writing Theory, Background, Poetics
• Connotative Writing, Consideration of Audience
• Language as Socially Agreed Upon Currency
• Get email addresses--Google Groups
• Discussion of workbook creation?
• Day 1 Notes

• Read May & May (Chapter 1--Accountants as Communicators).

• Properly set up and explore Google Groups
• Get to know your word processor!
• Find to bring to class Thursday an article, advertisement, or some other form of writing that specifically addresses accountants.
• Read May & May Chapter 2: The Writing Process

• Discuss chapter 1-2: Overview of Writing in Accounting & The Writing Process
  
• Public nature of writing – in class work on memo. This memo will be an introductory memo and will include basic contact information along with any other details that students wish to reveal about themselves (major, accounting track, area of specialization).
• Review using and posting to Google Groups
• Bring to class an article, advertisement, or some other form of writing that is geared specifically to accountants. This can be something you have read or written for another class, an article in a trade magazine, or an advertisement for accounting services, software, etc. We will work with these items in class.
• Group analysis of writing brought in to class
• Thorough discussion of Communication Audit assignment.
• Q and A regarding assignments and class format--does this format work, or would theories of writing (rhetorical triangle, ethos, pathos, logos) be more useful.

• Read May & May (Chapter 9—Letters).
• Google Group Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday
  The posting should be a link to the article you brought for today (if it's online) or information on where the article is from (author, title of article, where the article appears--magazine, journal, somewhere else), and then a few sentences on what the article is about. This posting will help us all get more familiar with the Google groups format and it will begin our creation of reference materials.

• Discussion and review of May & May (Chapter 9-Letters)
• Should we cancel class on Sept 27? Sept 28 is the career fair for Accounting, but would it be better to spent this day preparing for that in class or resting before a big career fair day?
  
• In-class work on reassurance letters based on in-class writing of the complaint letter

• Read May & May (Chapter 5- Standard English)
• Work on Communication Audit, due September 29
• Finish Reassurance Letter, due on Thursday

• Overview of Chapter 5: Standard English
• Review of grammar, mechanics, sentence structure
• Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammars
• In-class discussion of punctuation, syntax, grammar
  
  
• (1-1:40) Reassurance Letter Due in Class (two copies)
• In-class peer review of grammar and mechanics with Reassurance Letter
• Homework Reminder

• Overview of May & May 4
• Overview of corrections on papers
• Converting from passive to active voice
• Passive-Active Exercises
• Paragraphing, organization, and transitions
• More exercises on concision
  
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  Discussion of Response Letter assignment (sample letter with cliches and without)
• Response Letter in class work

• Overview of May & May 13: slides and slides
• Correcting parallel structure
• Parallel Structure handout 2
• Using lists and bullet points; action words for resume
• Miscellaneous grammatical issues – relative pronouns, subject-verb agreement, who & whom, he or she, ‘this-is’ expletives, meta- discourse, gerunds, etc.
  
• Quick look at Sun's new ads for visual rhetoric


• Bring resumes and cover letters and we will work on these in class based on these guidelines (all fields are different, so these will be the guidlines we'll be using. If you look at my resume, it's very different from these because it's guidelines are for College English instructors--know that the rules are always different for different fields.)
• Cover letter help
• Scannable resumes (Arial, white font, keywords, jargon)
• In addition to the short, super-streamlined resume, also keep a log of your work activities--for use as an interview prompt, as an archive of related experience (this is for you, not for potential employers)

• Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday
• Write Response Letter, due in class on Tuesday
• Read May & May (Chapter 7-Critical Thinking)

• Assignment of Groups (3-4 in each) for Final Project (groups)
• Discuss final projects (or another)
• In class grammar diagnostic fun.
• In class work on Communication Audit
• In class work on resumes and cover letters (cover letter sample) (final copy due by email by Sept 27)

• Discussion of May & May Chapter 10: slides
  Resume Interests: systems/IT interest"I also take things apart compulsively." What would the accounting equivalent be?
  looking at the CC list as an example
• Critique of Waiver
• Peer review of resumes and cover letters - must have final version to put on website later; peer review format
• grammar general; use of more; use of lay/lie; use of less/fewer

• Discussion of May and May 3; slides
• Office hours for next week are 9:30-11:30 Monday
• Work on Communication Audit
• In-class work on Proposals
  

Read May & May (Chapter 11, Reports, and 12, Writing for Exams)
Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday

• Overview of May and May 11 and 12: Reports Slides
• Overview of resumes: capitalization: site 1 :: site 2 :: degrees: Master of Science, Master of Accounting, Master's degree;


• Peer review of Communication Audit

• Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday
• Find 3 websites for accountants that you think are effective. Post the links to these websites to the discussion board and we will evaluate these sites on Tuesday to decide which sites to make into templates for your sites.
• Read Ereserve chapter on proposals

• Elements of Proposals
• Discussion of websites for accountants that you posted to the group discussion list. We will evaluate these sites and decide which sites to make into templates for your sites.


• In-class work on Proposals

• Discussion of May & May 8; slides
• Documentation, citation formats, format end-notes and works cited

• Discussion of Memo to Client's File Assignment
• Discussion of Ethics and word choice; Plain English
• Writing for the CPA Exam
• Ethics and Business Writing discussion of accounting ethics--written versions of issues that apply to other accounting ethics; as well as writing with clarity so that the writing is not easily misunderstood or misconstrued


• Websites: If you want to use the block style for your website, prep a bunch of images


• In class, group writing for CPA Exam Simulation on written communication; Writing a memo of a brief communication with a client (who has limited accounting knowledge) on the advantages of the dollar-value LIFO method. (from CPA-Exam.org)


• In class work on proposals?
• Office hours for this week switched to 2-4 in Rolfs 410.

• Review Revision Techniques Handout
• Work on Memo to Client’s File, due in class on Tuesday, Nov. 3 for peer review
• Respond to this reading for the weekly Google Groups post.

• Proposal for Final Project Due in Class today; peer review.
• In class writing on Memo to a client's file after reading Wal-Mart memo
• Revision Techniques and assessing thought

• Work on draft of Memo to Client’s File
• We meet in CSE for Tuesday--don't forget!
• Choose which template you will use for your website; bring materials to class on Thursday

• Today we'll meet in the CIRCA Lab, CSE E211: Map Image and interactive map
• Discussion of Image-Text (Website) Considerations
• Web Design Basics
  Images

• Work on Memo to Client’s File, Due in class November 10

• Specific work on reports
• Example of a well-written memo. Possible discussion of why it works.
• Group work on Memo to Client’s File
• Basic Notes

• Read May & May (Chapter 6—Format for Clarity)
• Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday

• Today we'll meet in the CIRCA Lab, CSE E211
• Image-Text Project Due in class today.
• Peer review of Image-Text Projects

• May and May Chapter 6
• In-class work on Final Projects
• Memo to Client’s File Due in Class today

• Work on Final Report portion of Final Project
• Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday

• In-class work on Final Projects

• Written Report portion of Final Project due in class Thursday (5 copies)
• Read May & May (Chapter 15—Oral Presentations)

• Discussion of Oral Presentations—tips and suggestions
• Overview of Creating Presentations and more slides

• Google Groups Posting, Due by 6 pm Friday
• Prepare presentations
• Read Reports and Prepare Questions for Upcoming Presentations

• Evaluations
• Final Review of Summary Requirements
• Colleague feedback and suggestions
• Brunch, bricolage, and brabble

• Last Replies to Classmates' DB Postings Due by 6 pm Friday.
• Individual Summaries of Final Project due by 6 pm Friday.