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My
\n
\nsyllabus for WRT307<\/a> still needs a small bit of tuning, but it’s sufficiently
\ncomplete that I have turned it over for a departmental stamp of good-enough. 
\nThe schedule is much rougher, but I have plans for the week ahead to sharpen the
\nearly weeks, and I’m generally reluctant to hyperplot the daily events,
\nespecially for a MWF class.  I’ve always found MWF classes challenging to
\npace; the 50-55 minute meetings spill over too easily, exceeding the tight
\nunit of time.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I’m asking you for feedback, too, either in the comments or via email,
\nespecially if you’re struck with the sense that what shows might (not) work–an
\nadded reading, an assignment tweak, an alternative order of events.  Two
\nquandaries with the course-as-planned: <\/p>\n

(-1-) The Writer’s Cluetrain: The End of Professional Writing as Usual<\/i>
\nis conceived as a semi-formal collaborative project that will take off from
\nThe Cluetrain Manifesto<\/i> and devise writerly insights from it.  People
\nof the world: 50 theses.  We’ll devise these while reading CM<\/i>, I
\nthink.  The pinch:  all fit and flow, where in the course, how to
\nframe it as a subsidiary and collaborative project and still have it come
\ntogether.  That’s all.<\/p>\n

(-2-)  Because this is the first time I’m teaching WRT307, I’ve been
\nsoftening my stance toward the use of a textbook.  In fact, I ordered exam
\ncopies of Pearsall’s Elements of Technical Writing<\/i> and Gurak and Lannon’s
\nConcise Guide to Technical Communication<\/i>.  At $25 per copy,
\nPearsall’s is inexpensive, and as I looked it over, I just didn’t find it to be
\nthe kind of thing I would use very much.  A few of the examples are good,
\nbut the framework is just a bit reductive–elemental.  Not flawed<\/i>
\nelemental, just elemental.  And that’s Pearsall’s shtick with this book:
\naffordable and basic.  Gurak and Lannon are quite the opposite.  Their
\nConcise Guide<\/i> is really quite a textbook as textbooks go–loaded with
\nrich and impressive (situationalized) grips on tech comm.  Problem: at $62
\nbucks a pop I wonder how central a piece it must be in the course to be worth
\nits price.  Quite a book, quite a price.  I’m inclined to adopt it,
\nbut I think this move will also compel me to expand the textbook’s role and do a
\nbit more to feature it.  That’s quandary no. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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