More About Social Media and Business

We practice some sentence combining.

Then we talk more about business use of social media.

You get the next writing assignment.

Homework:

1. Begin looking for possible business sites to write about.

Letters Due

You turn in your letters.

We look at social media.

Draft Letters Due

We look at revision advice from pages 114-115 in Bovee and Thill.

You should have a hard copy of your Nomination Letter.

You'll read two drafts and provide audience feedback.

Homework:

1. Revise your letter. Hard copy due Monday in class.

2. Look at this Prezi: http://prezi.com/kivylhim8stb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share   It is a review of how conjunctions create both compound and complex sentences. It explains some different nomenclature as well.

3.  Create 10 sentences. Five of them should be compound; five of them should be complex. [You may re-use the same clauses with different conjunctions, like the Prezi does, if you wish.] Bring to class Monday.

Effective Sentences

As you are creating a draft of your nomination letter, we're going to look at ways to revise sentences and paragraphs. See page 111 and pages 93-94.

You'll look up your letter of introduction that is in the forum in moodle.
Analyze your letter for patterns of sentence and paragraph length. We compare.

Next, read about compound and complex sentences.

We look at a Prezi (in our class in Moodle) and here: http://prezi.com/kivylhim8stb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

 Homework:

1. Complete your draft of the nomination letter due tomorrow.

Ethical Narrative Due

You turn in your narratives.

We return to letters.

New assignment?

Homework:

1. Proofread p. 176, Activity 7-23 and hit send to me before class tomorrow.

2. Be working on the draft of your recommendation/nomination letter. The rough draft is due Thursday.

Proofreading?

You correct your apostrophe quizzes.

We go over the quotation mark exercises.

Any questions about your narrative, due tomorrow? Proofread.

Email review?

Now take time and write the Lego Refection email.

Also, work on the brainstorming sheet about professionals you have known.

Homework:

1. The Ethics Narrative is due tomorrow.

2. The Lego Reflection email is due tomorrow by class time in Mrs. Loden's email.

3. Finish the brainstorming sheet as well.

Drafts Due Today

We look at quotation mark rules. You have an assignment using quotation marks.

Storytelling in advertising -- the forum is homework.

We go over what you're looking for as you read these drafts. What's vivid language?

When you are done reading drafts, you take a quiz over apostrophes.

Homework:

1. Read through the feedback on your draft. If you'd like more feedback, attach a copy to an email to Mrs. Loden. Revise. The final version is due Tuesday Oct. 24.

2. Finish the quotation marks exercise, due Monday (print the corrected copy).

3. Post in  the forum in Moodle with an example of narrative/ storytelling in advertising.

Composing Your Narrative

Apostrophe homework.

Analyzing an ethical dilemma is part of this assignment, so we watch a video in the class Moodle shell to help with this.

Composing?  See pages 89-93 in Bovee and Thill.

Apostrophe take-home quiz.

Homework:

1. Finish writing your draft of the Ethical Narrative. Bring a hard copy to class tomorrow.

Apostrophes and Narratives

First of all, we look at how to use apostrophes.

Then you discuss Dyer's article.

Homework:

1. Do the exercise using apostrophes.

2. Begin writing your own ethics narrative.

Narratives in Business

We compare your proofreading corrections for p. 54.

Ethics and stories?

www.jeffreyseglin.com

Handout: Here's a writer telling stories.  https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/01/geoff-dyer-author-fiction-books


Homework:

1. Read the handout and be ready to discuss in class Tuesday.

Ethics in Business Communication

Quiz over pages 15-17 in Bovee and Thill.

We discuss.

New forum assignment in Moodle.

Proofreading practice:  page 54 Level 3 (paragraph titled "Marketing Pro's")

Homework:

1. Finish the Lego project. Revise your directions if you wish (Mrs. Loden is grading them for effectiveness.)

2. Create a post in the 

Ethical Lapses in Business Moodlerooms Forum.

 

 3. Finish page 54 Level 3 Document Critique by re-typing the paragraph. Have a hard copy on Monday.

More Tips

You look at Bovee and Thill on the subject of email.

Homework:

1. Read pages 15-17 in Bovee & Thill. Be ready for a quiz.

2. Be working on Lego emails.

3. Remember to read and reply in the Letters of Introduction forum in Moodle. Due Friday.

More About Email

Your email signature -- what, how, where?

Email tips -- how to be as effective as possible?

Homework:

1. If you need to, finish the classroom email tips project, and have a hard copy ready for class tomorrow.

2. You now have a bag of Lego parts with an email address. You need to request the directions; remember to cc Mrs. Loden.

3. Remember to read 3 Letters of Introduction and reply to each in the forum in our class in Moodle.

Letter of Intro Due, Next Project

Print your final version of the Letter of Introduction.

Then I show you how to post it in a forum in Moodle. You will need to reply to 3 posts in that forum during this week.

We look at just what letterhead is....and where you find templates.

Then the Lego project begins....with planning?

Homework:

1. Send me a picture of your Lego object in email -- kloden@southeast.edu.

2. Create the directions for building your Lego object. Pay special attention to the format -- it's NOT a letter, or an essay.

3. Have a hard copy of the directions ready at the beginning of class tomorrow. Bring your parts ready to pass to a builder tomorrow.

Draft of Letter of Introduction Due

Quiz

You read drafts.

Homework:

1. For Monday create the final, finished version of your Letter of Introduction. Have a hard copy printed at the beginning of class. 

2. Also have an e-copy accessible, so you can post it online in a Moodle forum on Monday. I will show the class how to do this on Monday.

Professionalism

What makes business communication effective?


What is a professional?


Homework:

1. Create a draft of the Letter of Introduction. Follow the directions on the handout.

2. Read pages 60-62 of the book. Pay special attention to the Three-Step Writing Process.

Welcome

Getting to know the course:

I will hand out the course information sheet and calendar. Copies are also available in the Moodle version of this course.

A. On paper, write the answers to these questions about the yellow handout:
1. Copy down my name. (You may call me Mrs. Loden, Ms. Loden, or Ms. Kate. Not a professor.
2.  Read the "Course Objectives" section at the top. Summarize the four goals of this class.
3. Which goal in #2 do you think is the most important for you to practice this quarter?
4. How much is the Formal Report worth to your grade?
5. What's one way to fail this class?
6. Calendar: What's due on August 24?
7. How many days a week will this class meet?
8. Thought question ( you may consult your phone): what's the difference between a professional and an amateur?

Homework:

1. Get textbook for course.
2. Read pages 4-8.
3. After you do the reading, on the card I give you today, write down your name and three different types of people/audience (p. 8) you will be communicating with in your future job. (You can classify them by their job description or role.) This is your ticket to class tomorrow.