Schedule for White Paper: Solving a Problem for a Professional Audience assignment.

1. PROJECT 3 SCHEDULE
[White Paper: Solving a Problem
for a Professional Audience]
All work is due before class on the date due. 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 3
page.
Date In Class Work Due
W 9/13 Introduce Project 3, White
Paper.
Brainstorming possible
audiences & problems for your
topic.
Semester Topic Proposal
due.
F 9/15 Quiz on assigned PP reading.
Discuss footing. In-class
analysis, footing in Lockton
Global & Target Logistics white
papers.
Read Chapters 1-2 in
Performing Prose.
Read Lockton Global “Ebola
Outbreak” and Target
Logistics “Optimizing Sleep”
white papers, paying
attention to how they define
a problem for their audience
and establish footing.
M 9/18 Using research to give presence
to a problem. (Visit from
librarian Rochelle Smith.)
W 9/20 Assisted research day (bring
your laptops).
F 9/22 White paper structure. Read Curata.com, “The

2. Quick outlines.
Ultimate White Paper
Template.”
M 9/25 Framing solutions for the white
paper.
-Read the World Youth
Alliance HIV/AIDS white
paper.
Annotated bibliography
due by 11:59 p.m. (post
to BbLearn under
Assignment 3)
W 9/27 Designing the white paper. -Read Joe Moxley, “Principles
of Design.”
F 9/29 Professional writing style.
Workshop, problem section of
white paper.
-Complete a rough draft of
your white paper’s problem
section, and bring it with you
to class.***
M 10/02 Jodie’s teaching from CDA.
Draft workshop, White Paper.
-Complete a full, designed
draft of your white paper and
bring to class.***
W 10/04 White Paper due.
***Draft workshops are mandatory. If you miss the workshop, or come without a
complete draft, you will lose 25 points.