Author Archives: Quinn Warnick

The end of the semester is rapidly approaching, and we have just a few weeks to conclude our work on the Persuasive Oral Presentation. Here’s how we’ll spend our time between now and finals week: Week 14, Tuesday: I will … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed our discussion about the best and worst PowerPoint presentations you’ve ever seen. Next week, we’re going to extend that discussion by focusing on some specific strategies you can employ to make sure that your team oral presentation … Continue reading →

Next week will mark the beginning of our final unit (!) in this course. At the beginning of class on Tuesday, you will submit the final version of your team’s collaborative project. Please bring printed copies of all deliverables and … Continue reading →

Since I’m going out of town tomorrow morning, I thought I would update the class website early this week to make sure that everyone knows what to do before I come back. Remember that this Thursday should mark the end … Continue reading →

Based on my meetings with each team on Thursday, I think all five teams are where they need to be at this point in the report-writing process. In Week 10, we’ll focus on how your team can streamline its work … Continue reading →

At this point, each team has a committed client for the collaborative project, as well as a signed MOU to direct your work over the next few weeks. If you have any questions about what your team should be working … Continue reading →

I loved eavesdropping on your first team meetings in class today—I heard so many good ideas for potential collaborative projects. I hope my feedback helped you sharpen your focus as your team weighs its various options and decides on a … Continue reading →

I was very impressed with what I saw during our peer review workshop yesterday. Your instructables look like they’re very close to being done, and I hope the feedback you received will help you put the finishing touches on your … Continue reading →

The photos you brought to class on Thursday looked very promising, and at this point you should be editing (or in some cases, reshooting) those photos, then integrating them with the written text for your Instructable. By the end of … Continue reading →

It was inspiring to watch you put together your visual instructions so quickly on Thursday. I read through all of them today, and given your time constraints (and my intentionally vague instructions), I was very impressed with what you produced. … Continue reading →

With the correspondence unit behind us, we are ready to move from business communication to technical communication. The instructions unit puts a new twist on a very old genre, and it will help us develop our visual rhetoric skills at … Continue reading →

I hope Thursday’s peer-review session provided you with some usable ideas for revising your letters. We won’t spend any more class time on the correspondence unit, but if you have any questions before you submit your letters, you can come … Continue reading →

We got off to a great start during our first week, and I’m excited to see what topics you choose for the correspondence unit. As I promised in class on Thursday, here is the PDF file containing the three negative … Continue reading →

Welcome to ENGW 3335: Technical and Business Writing. This website will function as the online headquarters for our class this semester. Each week, I will post an update to the website with details about coming week, deadline reminders, links to … Continue reading →