Today’s Plan:
- Review Project Calendar
- Checking Codes
- Building a Spreadsheet
- For Next Session and Beyond
SUPER IMPORTANT FOR MY SANITY
If you forgot to do this for the entry you submitted for today, please go do this now.
From now on, when you add an advertisement to the Google Folder, place an asterisk in the front of its title. This will mark off which other adds have to get reviewed next Wednesday.
Review Project Calendar
Week Two:
Wednesday. Class: Review Codes. Classify articles (a spreadsheet is born). Home: Herrick on Rhetoric.Done. I will provide credit for codes before Monday’s class (after you have completed the spreadsheet assignment).Friday. Class: Discuss Herrick. Home: Insert and collect one more job. Asterisk in title.Done. My hope is that you understand that while rhetoric often just means “persuasion,” as in “I can use tools to persuade you,” it also means being attentive to the ways that language and culture is always, already influencing human thought, an art attentive to how we can make room for others by changing ourselves, an investigation into the power dynamics that underwrite any communicative situation, and an exploration of how diverse audiences might hear different meanings than we anticipate.
Week Three:
Monday. Class: Discuss Miller. Home: Quick Miller reflection. Check codes x3.Change: we didn’t read the Miller for Monday, we read the L&B “Responsive Writing” assignment. My hope is that you have even more insight into what some jobs looks like, recognize that you will probably have to learn some technology no matter what, and can go back to that article when it is time to draft a methodology section.- Wednesday. Class: Spreadsheet time. The Report Assignment. Home: Draft a methodology section for the report. Today! I am making changes. I will ask you to write a methodology section for Wednesday; I am uncertain if we will be able to start writing that today. Maybe. Thinking about it. (See below)
- Friday. Class: How to write a methodology. Home:
Week Four:
- Monday. Methodology crit. Home: Revise methodology. Read Miller and post (for Friday’s class).
- Wednesday. Data Analysis brainstorming, making graphs in Google Sheets. Home: write, write, write.
- Friday. Discuss Miller.
Data analysis brainstorming. Potential curve ball, B&L, classes & programs at UNC, extracurricular activities, etc. Home: Do all the writing. Due Saturday at midnight. Santos: Sunday from hell.
Week Five
- Monday. Class: Reviewing job reports. Home: Revising job reports.
- Wednesday. Class: Revising job reports. Some polishing. Williams and Bizup syntax.
- Friday. Class: TBD. Home: Finish report, read Corder “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
Review Codes
Below are the review assignments from last week. I have added the new entries (indicated by an asterisk). We have a total of 100 jobs in this semester’s corpus.
- Team #1: Tyler and Ren
- Team #2: Brooke and Macy
- Team #3: Shannon and Journie
- Team #4: Faith and Caitlin
- Team #5: Maya and Adrien
- Team #6: Ashley and Wyatt
- Team #7: Javen and Fiona
- Team #8: Carly and Brianna
- Team #9: Molly and Rianna
- Team #10: Leo and Sara
- Team #:11 Rose and Avery
- Team #:12 Madelyne and Kayla
Each team will be responsible for reviewing the codes in the following advertisements. After you have removed an entry with an asterisk in the title, remove the asterisk from the title. For convenience, here is a link to the Google Folder.
Team Number 1
- Account Coordinator
- AI Prompt Writer
- Auto Service Advisor/Writer
- Museum Editor/Writer
- News Editor
- *Marketing Copywriter
- *Brand Writer – Little Sunshine
Team Number 2
- Communication Specialist
- Content Writer – Avance
- Content writer – Freelance
- Northern Colorado Growth
- Proposal Development and Content
- *Branded Content Producer – Barstool
- *Content Creator: Liquidity Services
Team #3
- Content Writer (Remote)
- Content Writer & Media Planner
- Content Writer ETC [Two entries–combine/compare/review codes and then delete one]
- Publishing Assistant
- Sales and Marketing Proposal Writer
- *Content Writer – Ajinomoto Foods
- *Content Writer BRINC
Team #4
- Copywriter, EF Ultimate Break
- Copywriter, Lelior
- Social Media Content Creator – Coma Inducer
- Social Media Manager – Rap TV
- Social Media Specialist – Zimmer
- *Copy Editor – Wizehire
- *Copy Writer – DataAnnotation (this was added twice–delete one entry)
Team #5
- Copywriter – Brookdale
- Copywriter – Fordham
- Staff Writer – Denver Westworld
- Staff Writer – WikiHow
- Storytelling Content Writer – Oswego CC
- *Copywriter – Revelyst
- *Copywriting and Content Creation Intern
Team #6
- Data Journalism / Multi
- Editor – Harper Collins
- Entry Writer – PSA BDP
- Technical Content Developer
- Technical Storyteller
- *Court Reporter and Marketing Specialist – Pike
- *Digital Content Specialist: Credit Union
Team #7
- Editor – Wyoming Newspapers
- Editorial Assistant – Hatchette
- Entry Level Comms Rep
- Newspaper Copy Editor
- Technical Writer- Fogg
- *Digital Marketing and Social Media Manager – Ast
- *Editor – Coastal Communications
Team #8
- Freelance Editor
- Freelance Entertainment
- Freelance Food Writer
- Writer – Marketing Comms – UAB
- Writer & Ed – Adweek
- *Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing Specialist
- *English Proofreader and Editor – Bored Panda
Team #9
- Freelance Grant and Proposal
- Grant Project Specialist
- Grant Specialist
- Writer – Santa Monica Studio
- *Freelance Marketing Technical Writer
- *Grant Writer and Nonprofit Development
Team #10
- Creative Producer – Mr. Beast
- Grant Writer Gillette College [Two entries–combine/compare/review codes and then delete one]
- Jr Proposal Writer
- Litigation Paralegal
- Writer / Editor – Ladgov
- *Junior Fashion Writer
- *Magazine Writer – Flagship Publishing
- *Technical Writer – Entregra
Team #11
- Coordinator, Creative Marketing & Comm
- Managing Editor / Writer
- Marketing Content Writer
- Media Editorial Assistant
- Service Writer – Benchmark
- *Morning Show Host – Digital Content Writer
- *Primary Social Media and Secondary Video Pro
- *Technical Writer and Editor – Leidos
Team #12
- Medical Writer – MJH
- Medical Writer Costello
- Multimedia Journalist – Coastal
- Multimedia Journalist – Rapid
- Publications Intern
- *Science Writer – John Hopkins
- *Social Media Content Producer – Oklahoma
- *Social Media Coordinator and Content Marketing
For Next Session(s)
When there’s 8 minutes left in class, I’ll go over how to add an entry to the spreadsheet. Everyone will have to add their entries to the spreadsheet before Friday’s class (so that I can do some correlation work before Friday’s class). The four jobs you add to the spreadsheet are the four jobs you added to the corpus.
In Friday’s class, I will go over drafting a methodology section. I’ll be giving you additional material to incorporate into your writing. We will peer-review those methodologies in Monday’s class. You will revise them for homework Monday night.
For next Friday, we’ll be reading and discussing Carolyn Miller’s classic essay on technical communication as a humanistic science. Miller is writing in the early 1980’s at a time when most English departments had a literature program and maybe a first-year writing program (although that program would likely have been writing about literature). She denotes how her literature colleagues are skeptical of the value of professional/technical writing classes. If they identify value, it is as a “service course” that teaches students academic and/or vocational skills and *not* because there is any intellectual, moral, or imaginative value to those classes. Her response is considered one of the founding moments of Professional and Technical Communication as a discipline (and you can play a little game where you map on some of her argumentative positions to how we developed and deliver the WEP major).
