Schedule for Career Guide and Event Flyer

1. ENGL 202 Introduction to Professional Writing Page 1 of 3
PROJECT 2 SCHEDULE Weeks 4-6
Explore a Field to Write for a Client
All homework assignments inthe Work Due column should be completed
before class on that date. Project 2 will be due at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday,
10/06. Late assignments will lose one letter grade (or the equivalent number
of points) per day.
Unless otherwise indicated, all links are on the BbLearn Project 2 page.
Date In Class Work Due
F 9/13 Introduce Project 2. Developing
focused research questions.
M 9/16 No class – Jodie away Study Slidedoc 1.
Project 2, Blog post 1: Post your
focused research questions.
W 9/18 Working with the Bureau of Labor
Statistics and other appropriate sites
to answer focused research
questions. Creating a research
dossier with Evernote.
F 9/20 Information visualization, pt 1
(watch David McCandless TED Talk).
Study Slidedoc 2.
M 9/23 Information visualization, pt 2.
Practice creating graphics using BLS
data.
W 9/25 Draft workshop, Career Guide
content.
Introduce document design.
Bring a completed draft of your
career guide to class (it does not
have to be designed yet). Draft
workshop is worth 10 points.
Study Slidedoc 3.

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F 9/27 CRAP HATS, revisited (document
design principles).
Bring an example of a flyer (or
anything else) that you think is very
badly designed.
M 9/30 Using PowerPoint to create flyers
(bring laptops).
W 10/02 Draft workshop for Career Fair Flyer
and completed (designed) Career
Guide.
Bring draft of your Career Fair Flyer
and designed Career Guide. Draft
workshop is worth 15 points.
F 10/04 No class! Revise Career Guide white
paper and event flyer for submission
on Sunday.
PROJECT 2 WHITE PAPER, FLYER, and DOSSIER DUE Sunday, October 6
Submit your work to the project 2 submission drop box as follows:
 Self-Evaluation: compose in a Word or other document and cut and paste into the
submission box.
 Deliverable 1: White Paper, submit a Word or PDF file.
 Deliverable 2: Event Flyer, submit a PDF file.
 Deliverable 3: Research Dossier. Post the URL to your Project 2 Evernote
Notebook in the submission box (along with your self-evaluation).
To avoid a point penalty, verify your submission. Do not rely solely on BbLearn’s
confirmation that your work submitted. You need to check that your work submitted
correctly.