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1. Syllabus
College of Information Science & Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Advanced Composition
for IS&T
CIST 3000
Online
Summer 2014
CIST 3000 Advanced Composition for IS&T
Course Information
The Class
Course Section and Title: CIST 3000, Advanced Composition
for IS&T
Prerequisite: ENGL 1160, English Composition, or placement
Location of Class: Online
Required Text: Lannon, J. M., & Gurak, L. J. (2014) Technical
communication.
New York, NY. Pearson Longman.
Text Availability: UNO Bookstore, Milo Bail Student Center,
6001 Dodge,
www.unobookstore.com
2. PDF Capability Assignments must be submitted in PDF format
Important Dates
Class Begins: May 19, 2014
Class Ends: August 15, 2014
Last Day to Drop Class: July 25, 2014
The Instructor
Name: Sheri Hronek
Methods of Contacting: Phone: 402-455-6192. Any day, 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m., CT; other times
by appointment
Email address: [email protected];
[email protected]
Notes: •Long-distance toll calls will be returned by email.
Note: Various page layouts are used in the syllabus to illustrate
points that will be discussed in the design
discussion.
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Table of Contents
Class Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Important Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4. Student Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Responses to Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 10
Planner for Summer 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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List of Figures
1. Grading Point Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. UNO’s Grade Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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List of Tables
I. Projected Schedule of Assignments and Topics . . . . . . . 12
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Course Overview
Objectives Methods of Instruction
Student Responsibilities
Services for Students with
Disabilities
4 ENGL 3980, Technical Writing Across the Disciplines,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Division of Continuing
Studies, Summer 2014
The course provides students with instruction and practice in
5. academic and professional writing
for the technical sciences. The course focuses on principles of
rhetoric and composition,
advanced library-based research techniques, academic and
professional modes of writing
suited to the technical sciences, style, grammar, and
punctuation, all with attention to adapting
writing to suit the needs of various academic and professional
audiences.
The objectives of this course are asfollows:
• an understanding of various writing
strategies and genres
• an ability to apply field-related, advanced
research skills
• an understanding of grammar and
language issues
• a developed proficiency in appropriate
language for audiences
• an understanding of the writing process
• an understanding of writing functions
• an awareness of audience
You are expected to act in a professionalmanner and meet your
obligations for
the course. These obligations include the
following:
• Complete assignments when due.
• Complete assignments according to the
requirements.
6. • Participate in group reviews, blogs and
wikis.
• Read chapter assignments and other
assignments.
• Participate in Discussion Board.
• Be polite and respectful of others in the
class, including postings.
Instructional methods include groupdiscussion, individual
writing and
presentation.
Assignments will be reviewed to learn from
others’ approaches to their projects during
the development stages.
You will review and critique copies of other
students’ assignments, including the
proposal, draft, design and presentations.
Reasonable accommodations areprovided for students who are
registered with Disability Services and make
their requests sufficiently in advance. For
more information, contact Disability
Services (EAB 117, Phone: 554-2872, TTY:
554-3799) or go to the web site:
www.unomaha.edu/disability.
Some important information in this course
will be shared via audio recordings, which
may not be accessible to people with certain
types of disabilities. Please notify the
instructor immediately if you will need
7. disability-related accommodations.
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The projected schedule for assignments and weekly topics
is listed in Table I on page 12.
Be sure to check Blackboard regularly for any
announcements.
Requirements
For each assignment, a specification sheet and an
explanation of the assignment will be posted. The
assignment sheet will include the requirements for that
assignment. Failure to meet the requirements (e.g.,
ignoring them) will result in a decrease in points. You
should read each assignment thoroughly and carefully.
Each has its own requirements. Class presentations also
include requirements. All are binding requirements.
Highlighting assignments and creating checklists are good
techniques for ensuring the assignments are complete.
All written assignments and the final report must be
submitted in PDF format and through Blackboard. The
instructor has posted sources of software that can be used
to convert files to PDF format. No emailed assignments
are accepted.
Writing Process
The assignments are designed to follow the development
process in writing. Class presentations focus on each of
these stages and the types of writing represented by the
8. assignment. Assignments lead to the final report.
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Assignments and
Class Topics
CIST 3000 • Advanced
Composition for IS&T •
University of Nebraska at
Omaha •
College of Information Science
and Technology •
Summer 2014
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The Bachelor of Science Information Systems (BIS) and
Bachelor of
Science Computer Science (BCS) Programs are accredited by
ABET,
the accrediting body for engineering and technology disciplines.
This
organization requires that we keep samples of student work.
Unless you
specify otherwise, I may retain the electronic copy of your
assignments
(with your name removed) for accreditation purposes.
Your proposal, which is
9. due by 11:59 p.m.,
Sunday, June 22, is
your commitment for the
scope of your report;
that is, you need to do
what you say you will
do.
You cannot change the
report subject after
11:59 p.m., Sunday,
June 1.
CIST 3000
Advanced Composition for IS&T
University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Information Science &
Technology
Summer 2014
If you withdrew from a
previous course or are
retaking the course, you
cannot reuse your
assignments from the
previous course. You
cannot repeat subjects
from the previous course. A
“recycled” assignment from
a previous course will
receive zero points.
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Assignment Descriptions
10. Assignments 1 through 4 relate to the final report. The final
report must be on a topic you know about and related to
information science and technology.
Assignment 1, Report Subject and Research Strategy:
1. An informal proposal (in memo form) for the report subject
2. A research strategy with preliminary research summary
3. Review by class
Assignment 2, Report Proposal and Detailed Outline:
1. A covering letter
2. A stand-alone formal proposal discussing the report
and including a cost/budget for the semester’s work and a
Gantt chart for the semester’s work
3. A detailed outline of the final report
4. Review by student small group
Assignment 3, Report Draft:
1. Letter discussing required items
2. Draft of the final report
3. Review of draft by student small group
Assignment 4, Report Design:
1. Letter discussing required items
2. Specified design and graphic samples and a style sheet
3. Review of design by class
Final Report: an objective, formal report with a minimum of
15 pages, single spaced, for a professional-style report or 30
pages, double spaced, for an APA-style academic report (not
counting front and end matter, dividers and full-page
graphics). It has no maximum number of pages.
The final report serves as a cumulative final exam and is
expected to show improvement from weekly assignments;
instructor comments for those assignments will be used in
11. evaluation of the final report.
Narrated PowerPoint Presentation with Outline:
1. Narrated PowerPoint presentation and outline
2. Review by class
Other discussions and postings: Blogs and wki are for issues
related to technical writing.
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Research and Plagiarism
All students at UNOare expected to conduct their
academic affairs in an honest and
responsiblemanner. Any student found guilty of
dishonesty (e.g., plagiarism) in academic
work shall be
subject to disciplinary actions, which include
receiving zero points for the assignment or
report. SafeAssign, a plagiarism detection service,
will be used for assignment submittals.
Acts of academic dishonesty include, but are not
limited to, plagiarizing, violating copyrights,
cheating, assisting fellow students in committing an
act of cheating, and submitting work as one’s
own when such work has been prepared by another
person or copied from another person (by
placing his/her own name on a paper, the
12. student is certifying that it is his/her own
work). The
latter example includes taking portions of articles
or reports and using them in your work without
acknowledging the source. Copying another student’s
assignment or a portion of an assignment
is
plagiarism. You are expected to do your own work.
You may not use copied or downloaded copyrighted
images or othervisuals unless you have
written permission from the copyright owner; the
written permission must be submitted with the
assignment. You will create your own graphics and
tables.
Warning: You must provide attribution to sources
for ideas, data, information, graphics, pictures
and actual words in your assignments and reports.
Failure to provide attribution (citations)in
the text ANDin the list of referenceswill result in
zero points for an assignment or report.
“According to Jones,...” is not a complete in‐text
citation.
You will use APA documentation format for in‐text
and reference list citations. Citations of
electronic sources, including the library data bases,
have specific formats you must follow. Do not
rely on online websites to create the correct
version for you.
You are required to use UNO’s data bases for
research for Assignment 1. Wikipediaand
encyclopedias are not acceptable sources.
13. You will be reviewing otherstudents’ work. You are
expected to respect the ownership(copyright)
of otherstudents’ work.
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The materials in this course are subject to
copyright protection. You may make copies
only for course‐related
tasks. The materials are not to be shared with
others or used for otherpurposes. Those
materials from other
sources are protected the source’s copyright;these
materials include posted student work.
90% and above = A (Outstanding)
80% to 89% = B (Proficient)
70% to 79% = C (Satisfactory)
60% to 69% = D (Below standard)
59% and below = F (Failing)
Figure 2 - UNO Grade Types
Figure 1 - Grading Point Distribution
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You will be given points on written assignments, which include
the formal report; on
the presentation, and attendance and participation, as follows.
Figure 1 represents the
percentages of these items.
• Subject/Research Strategy,
60 possible points
• Proposal/Detailed Outline,
120 possible points
• Draft,
150 possible points
• Design,
60 possible points
• Final report,
300 possible points
• Presentation,
100 possible points
• Presentation Reviews,
20 possible points
• Discussions/Reviews,
estimated +/-100
possible points
Grading Criteria
The assignments are graded on the following criteria: 1) idea
15. and content development,
2) completeness, 3) thoroughness, 4) clarity, 5) style and 6)
grammar, spelling and
punctuation. Similar criteria are used for the final report and
presentation. You will be
given a copy of the grading matrices for these assignments.
Final Course Grade
The final grade is determined by a total of the points earned
divided by the total
possible points. Use the list above for possible points and do
not rely on the total
possible points reflected in Blackboard’s MyGrade.
The University’s grade types are shown in
Figure 2. Minus grades are the percentages
below n3; plus grades are the percentages n7
and above. All work must be turned in by
August 15.
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Back up!
Keep a copy of anything handed in and back up
often while you are working. Back up on the
hard drive AND USB drive, CD or the cloud.
Discussion Board has some student
suggestions for back ups.
Use your UNO myFile
16. folder.
Computers do crash or become infected with
viruses; storage media do become corrupted or
are lost. Do not depend on them for the only
copy. Loss of a computer or storage media is
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Late Assignments
Assignments are due by 11:59 p.m. on the indicated day and are
late if handed in after that time. Pointsfor an assignment will be
reduced 25 percent each day the assignment is past due; i.e., 25
percent
Monday, 50 percent Tuesday, 75 percent Wednesday, and 100
percent Thursday.
Discussion Board Forums, group reviews, blogs or other online
discussions close at 11:59 p.m. of the
designated day. All postings must be made by the deadline. Any
posting after the deadline will receive
zero points. In other words, late discussions and late reviews
are not accepted.
You are responsible for ensuring that I have received any
assignment, late or on time. Double check My
Grades after you have submitted an assignment to be sure it is
17. reflected as being submitted. If you submit
a late assignment, let me know. I don’t keep checking to see if
you have handed something in after I
download the assignment on Monday after it is due.
Use Blackboard’s Assignments for submitting assignments. Do
not use email. If I cannot open the file or
the file is not in the correct format, the assignment has not been
received. If you do not submit an
assignment (except the PowerPoint presentation) as a PDF, you
must resubmit it in the correct format,
and it will be late.
Use my email address, [email protected], for questions and
other communication
other than discussions about grades. Use my UNO email address
for grade discussions.
Piecemeal assignments are not accepted. The assignment is
graded as a total assignment when it is
handed in the first (and only) time. All pieces must be
submitted through Blackboard at the same time, so
you must attach all files before you click on Submit. Once
Submit has been selected, the assignment closes.
Clicking on Submit is like hitting the send button for email.
Once it is gone, it is gone.
No do-overs are allowed.
No extra credit assignments are given.
Confidentiality of Grades
Grades and assignments are available throughBlackboard.
Nothing will be returned by email.
Any discussion of grades should be through UNO’s
18. email system, not my gmail account.
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Feedback of Assignments
Feedback during the semester includes evaluations by other
students and by the instructor.
Student Feedback
Student feedback include the following:
• Feedback during discussion of subjects
• Peer review of your proposal/outline
• Peer review of your report draft
• Peer review of your report design
• Peer review of your presentation
• Postings in the Discussion Board and Review Groups
Instructor Feedback
19. I try to return Assignments 1 through 4 to you one week after
they are turned in; however,
unforeseen circumstances may change that timetable, and more
advanced assignments require
more review time. I will return the assignments when they are
done, so you have comments for
the next assignment, and I will follow up with the grade sheet.
Late assignments may be delayed.
Comments include written and audio comments on the
assignment; you need Adobe Reader 9,
X or XI to review your returned assignments.
The grade sheet has three parts:
• the grade matrix of possible points and earned points for each
of the six criteria
listed on page 8
• a listing of common errors with a “x” placed in front of errors
that are marked on
the assignment
• a comment section used for selected comments from the
assignment
Assignments 1 and 2 are edited, proofread and marked on the
assignment to highlight a writing
problem, and ways to correct it. Assignment 3 is not edited but
does a punctuation mark in the
margin of a line to indicate a need. You are expected to learn
and to correct your writing errors.
Written and audio comments are provided on assignments.
The final report with comments on it will be returned after the
end of the course.
E-mail comments or marked-up text is also provided to specific
20. questions. You are encouraged
to call or e-mail when you have questions. Use the e-mail
address and phone number listed on
page 2. However, I will not review an assignment before it is
handed in.
You are encouraged to use UNO’s Writing Center. It is a
valuable service provided to students.
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Schedule Planner 2014
I have included two types of schedules for your use. The first
below is a listing of the
assignments in a tabular format. The second is a simple Gantt
timeline; you will be doing
a detailed Gantt timeline for your proposal (and not a listing).
The Gantt chart below is
not detailed.
Deadlines for Written Assignments
Assignment 1, Report Subject and Research Strategy June 1,
11:59 p.m.
Assignment 2, Proposal and Detailed Outline June 22, 11:59
p.m.
Assignment 3, Report Draft July 7, 11:59 p.m.
21. Assignment 4, Report Design July 13, 11:59 p.m.
Final Report August 3, 11:59 p.m.
Presentation and Outline August 10, 11:59 p.m.
Note: Assignments cannot be handed in piecemeal. If you hand
in a partial
assignment, it will be graded as an incomplete assignment.
Assignments cannot be emailed. They can only be submitted
through Blackboard.
Assignment
Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1. Report Subject X
1. Research Strategy X
2. Proposal X
2. Outline X
3. Draft X*
4. Design X
Final Report X
Presentation X
Presentation Reviews X
Key: X = Due date: end of the week with the X, except for
22. the draft in Week 8.
* The draft is due the beginning of the week (Monday, July 7).
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Table I: Schedule of Assignments and Topics
(as of May 18, 2014)
Written Assignments Due Week starting
Monday
Discussion Subject/Reading Assignment
Due Date Assignment
Each week begins on Monday. I
will post new assignments and
other materials by 12:05 a.m.
Monday. My presentations are
posted. They, the discussion
groups and the review groups
are our “class meetings.”
May 19 #1 Introduction to Class
Chapt 1, Introduction to Technical Communications
Chapt 6, Overview of the Technical Writing Process
Chapt 14, Memos
Chapt 7, Thinking Critically about the Research Process
Appendix B grammar review
Sunday,
23. May 25
1. Submit
Questionnaire
May 26 #2 Writing Styles
Chapt 14, Memos
Chapt 2, Meeting the Needs of Specific Audiences
Chapt 8, Evaluating and Interpreting Information
Primary Research
2. Post Introduction
Sunday,
June 1
1. Submit #1 Subject/
Research Strategy
June 2 #3 Chapt 4, Weighing the Ethical Issues
Appendix A, Documentation
Interviewing
Writing Primary Research
2. Post to Discussion
Board
Sunday,
June 8
1. Comment on
Discussion Board
Postings
June 9 #4 Chapt 9, Summarizing Research Findings and...
Chapt 22, Formal Analytical Reports
24. Chapt 26, Social Media
Chapt 10, Organizing for Readers
Sunday,
June 15
1. Complete Blog #1 June 16 #5 Chapt 2, Proposals
Chapt 23, Persuading Your Audience
Chapt 16, Workplace Letters
Sunday,
June 22
1. Submit #2 Proposal
with Outline
June 23 #6 Chapt 18, Technical Definitions
Chapt 19, Technical Descriptions, Specifications,...
Sunday,
June 29
1. Complete Proposal
Review Group
June 30 #7 Chapt 13, Designing Pages and Documents
Chapt 5, Teamwork and Global Considerations (p. 98-101)
2. Wiki opens
Monday,
July 7
1. Submit #3 Draft July 7 #8 Chapt 12, Designing Visual
Information
Sunday,
25. July 13
1. Complete Draft
Review Group
July 14 #9 Chapt 11, Editing for a Professional Style and Tone
2. Submit #4 Design
2. Post Design to
Discussion Board
Sunday,
July 20
1. Post Design Reviews
in Discussion Board
July 21 #10 Executive Summaries
Chapt 22, Formal Analytical Reports
Sunday,
July 27
1.Complete Blog 2 July 28 #11 Chapt 21, Informal Reports
Transmittal Letters2. Wiki ends
Sunday,
August 3
1. Submit Final Report August 4 #12 Chapt 25, Oral
Presentations and Webinars
Sunday,
August 10
1. Submit Presentation
26. and Outline
August 11 #13 Writing for international audiences
Chapt 5, Teamwork and Global Considerations
Chapt 15, Email and Instant Messaging
Chapt 25, Web Pages
2. Post Presentation to
Discussion Board
Friday,
August 15
1. Post reviews of all presentations
Course Ends
The course ends at 11:59 p.m. CDT, Friday, August 15.
Check Blackboard regularly for announcements.
Student work is due by 11:59 p.m. CDT of the designated day.
No emails will be accepted.
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University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Information
Science and Technology
![PDF Capability Assignments must be submitted in PDF format
Important Dates
Class Begins: May 19, 2014
Class Ends: August 15, 2014
Last Day to Drop Class: July 25, 2014
The Instructor
Name: Sheri Hronek
Methods of Contacting: Phone: 402-455-6192. Any day, 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m., CT; other times
by appointment
Email address: [email protected];
[email protected]
Notes: •Long-distance toll calls will be returned by email.
Note: Various page layouts are used in the syllabus to illustrate
points that will be discussed in the design
discussion.
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Science and Technology, Summer 2014 2
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Table of Contents
Class Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Important Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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