Week 07 Instructions: Writing Instructions

• Time Required
• 7–8 hours, including reading time

This module asks you to begin the process of writing the instructions that you (or someone else) will use to conduct primary research for your recommendation report.

The instructions that you compose will ultimately become part of your recommendation report, so you are ultimately working on two projects this week.

Additionally, remember to check the “Canvas Announcements & Course Advice” on the Course Home. The posts show up in the Twitter feed for @HokieTengrrl Links to an external site., which you will find on the course home in Canvas. If you read them and watch the related videos, be sure to note the time in your Weekly Work Log.

 

Objectives for this Week

By completing this week’s activities, you address the following course objectives:

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
• Interpret research findings with understanding of ethical and human implications. [CLO 3]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]
• Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
• Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]

 

Activities for this Week

📚 To Read This Week

• Markel & Selber, Chapter 20: “Writing Definitions, Descriptions, and Instructions,” pp. 555–579
• How to Boost Your Creativity at Home in 10 Days Links to an external site. (32m LinkedIn Learning Course)
  • Watching this short course should help you look at the problem you have identified for your recommendation report in new and creative ways.
• Review these pages, as part of the Project Sequence Check-In Discussion:
  • Detailed Sequence of Projects (webpage)
  • Recommendation Report Criteria (webpage)

📝 To Write This Week

• Complete the Instructions Draft Assignment  activity.

💬 To Discuss This Week

• Follow the instructions in the Instructions Draft Feedback Discussion to share what you have created with your group. As a group, work to ensure that every person in the group gets at least two responses.
• Participate in the Project Sequence Check-In Discussion.

📓 To Track This Week

• Track and reflect on the work you have done for the week in your Work Log for the Week of 03/01, reviewing the Weekly Work Log Guidelines as needed.
• Complete the Week of 03/01 Self-Assessment to claim the points for the work you have done this week. You have an unlimited number of times to complete the self-assessment. Your points will be recorded automatically when you submit your quiz.

 

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