Today’s Plan:
- Project Two Conclusion
- Return to Characters and Actions
- Homework
Completing Project 2
Thursday marks what should be the final day in your gantt chart. So it is time to report on your progress. I think the easiest way to do this is with a memo. Let’s do some brainstorming: what sections should this memo have?
Characters and Actions
Let’s talk a bit more about rhetorical grammar and how characters and actions can help writers craft clearer and more engaging sentences.
Homework
First read Karsh and Fox 15-52. This shouldn’t be a tough reading.
Then read Abras et al on User Centered Design from the Files section of Canvas. Originally, I intended this reading to ground our discussion of crafting and testing documentation.
“User-centered design” has become a centerpiece of UX (user experience) research; I’d be surprised if many of you didn’t come across either UCD or UX in job ads from Project One.
But we’re not going to be conducting a documentation project this semester–instead project 3 will focus on developing a recommendation report for our grant writing project–what grants should we pursue? what questions should we be “asking” of potential grants as we compile our research?
I’d like your forum discussion posts for Abras et al to hone in on these questions: what can attention to User Centered Design teach us about grant writing? What UCD principles should inform our research heuristic? What UCD principles should inform the way we write our grants? A grant is obviously not a product–but I do think there is valuable cross-over here.
