WRITING 340: ADVANCED WRITING FOR BUSINESS



WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for Business

SYLLABUS & Calendar

Residential and Blended/online class

Fall 2008

Professor: Sandra J. Chrystal, Ph.D.

Office: ACC 400 C

Office Hours: Tues, Thurs 7:00-7:30 a.m. and Wed. 1:30-2:30

E-Mail: Chrystal340@marshall.usc.edu

Telephone: 213 740-5011

Teaching Assistant: Jennie Giang [jenniegi@usc.edu]

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND GOALS

WRIT 340 offers instruction in writing for various audiences on topics related to a student’s professional or disciplinary interests, with some emphasis on issues of broad public concern. The prerequisite is WRIT 140 or its equivalent.

The business version of this course, Advanced Writing for Business, is designed not only to help you write effectively in a business environment, but also to improve your general ability to research and analyze complex ideas, to appreciate and develop the skill of effective argumentation, and to write clear, grammatical, well-structured communications. With some emphasis on ethics and issues of public concern, coursework is designed to increase your capacity to analyze audiences and tailor content and style to produce written presentations that communicate with confidence.

Building on the skills you gained in WRIT 140, this class explores specific business writing techniques and strategies through in-class lectures and exercises, individual writing assignments, tutorial sessions, and a group project. The topics covered range from word-, sentence-, and paragraph-level issues of correctness, conciseness, coherence, and clarity to more global considerations of argumentation and organization, including a major unit on critical thinking.

Throughout the semester, emphasis is placed on developing systematic ways of identifying relevant from non-essential information and then effectively and appropriately communicating what is relevant to a wide variety of audiences. You will learn to regard effective business writing in terms of a series of strategic choices, including choosing from among a repertoire of tones and styles appropriate in different situations and with different audiences. You will also improve your editing and critiquing skills, so that you can distinguish effective from ineffective writing and help not just yourself but others as well to become better writers in a business context.

The course content of Advanced Writing for Business is practical today and long into the future. You will begin using or improving many writing skills immediately—not just following graduation or in a future career position. Bear in mind, however, that while an instructor can teach you a lot of what you need to know to be a successful writer, no one can make you learn, practice, modify, polish, or strengthen your skills. That part of the course is up to you.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course focuses on improving your skills in gathering, analyzing, and organizing information, and in communicating that information in effective and persuasive business documents. You will learn what is needed to:

• Communicate effectively to different audiences;

• Evaluate options and make effective choices about the tone, style, and form the communication should take;

• Conduct research using a broad range of sources, synthesizing and judging the quality of collected information;

• Prepare a variety of business documents—including memos, letters, emails, and reports—using appropriate headings, layout, and typography;

• Recognize and implement the qualities associated with effective business writing, particularly the hallmarks of correctness, conciseness, coherence, and clarity;

• Collaborate productively with others in completing writing and editing tasks;

• Support your own written claims with logical and persuasive reasoning, and evaluate the reasoning in the writing of others;

• Express your ideas and conduct yourself in a professional manner.

This class, like a business, is a collaborative effort; we learn together in a team environment. It will integrate your writing and team skills with electronic communication. We shall use the Blackboard course management system for posting assignments, grades, threaded discussions, and chat rooms. Several class sessions will use synchronous and asynchronous technology rather than meeting in our traditional campus classroom. It is important, therefore, that you familiarize yourself with Blackboard navigation, observe netiquette, and check the course calendar and announcements at blackboard.usc.edu and your USC email before every class.

Note: According to University policy, instructors may replace any student who, without prior consent, does not attend (a) the first two class sessions of a class that meets more than once a week or (b) the first class session of once a week classes.

Your papers and presentations may be used for this class and for later class work and publications. Your classroom activities may be videotaped and podcast.

We shall occasionally meet in the computer classroom so be sure that you check the calendar for the password for that day.

Email: You can forward the university email to your other accounts, but be sure that you check for email using your USC address before every class. When you email me, type your section # and the specific topic on the subject line when you email me EXAMPLE: 91718 question re. W P memo. Your email may not be read if it is not filtered into the appropriate class mail section, or if it’s automatically sent to my spam file because of an unfamiliar email name or subject line.

If you use a Mac, you may need to use the University’s computers. You can access E-learning’s computer rooms on the lower level of Hoffman Hall. The Help Desk is located in HOH 300.

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TEXTS

Ask the bookstore for the WRIT 340 for Business bundled version.

• Bailey, Edward P. Writing for Work: A Practical Guide to Written Communication in Business .

• Browne, M. Neil and Stuart M. Keeley. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, 6th ed.

• Miller, Arthur. All My Sons.

Materials Needed:

• Electronic storage device with your name and class section on the label with you for every class. Always keep a copy of every assignment that you write on your email, storage device, and your hard drive. Losing your work does not constitute an excuse.

• Headphones and microphone

• Sound card and Realtime software

• Manila folder with your name and class section written on the side tab

• Microsoft Word Office 2007 software

• Access to a laser printer or equivalent

• USC e-mail account that you check before every class

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Percent Points

Major Writing Assignments. These documents must be posted to Turnitin by the due date, or they will not be graded.

Trade Journal letter 8 80

A letter in which you respond to an article in a trade journal.

Business Ethics Position Paper 10 100

a persuasive document based on a business-ethics issue.

Insight Business Critical Thinking Analysis 10 100

A critical analysis and argument on a contemporary issue, based on the

critical thinking methodology developed in class and in your reading

Portfolio 20 200

A thorough reworking and polishing of two “major writing” assignments:

Other assignments 27 270

Group Project—15 Percent of Course 15 150

The project you will be working on throughout the semester is a reality-based, persuasive collaborative effort. You will create business documents that a not-for-profit agency needs along with several associated documents for reporting the writing process to the class. You will deliver both your agency’s materials and a formal presentation to one or more decision-makers from the organization and to the class.

Agency contacts will assess your professionalism and your deliverables.

Assigned documents include an internal memo, a memo of understanding, progress reports, press release, executive summary, formal report, and self and peer evaluations. Grades for some of these documents will be recorded under the category of “other assignments.”

Professionalism 10 100

Attendance, punctuality, teamwork, conferences, agency collaboration evaluations, and participation in class and on the course weblog, and in your private electronic journal contribute to your professionalism grade. Daily activities are generally worth ten points and cannot be made up for full credit.

Absences, tardiness, use of electronic devices, eating food, and disruptive conversation will decrease your participation grade.

Total 100% 1,000

Electronic discussion board and/or journal entries (minimum)

Postings

• Professional’s interview quote with speaker’s name, company name, and date of interview

• Internal proposal memo (collaborative)

• Comments on Writer’s profile memos

• Memo of understanding

• Trade journal citation and summary

• Trade journal draft

• Business and cultural issues that your agency faces

• Ethics paper draft

• Responses to peers’ portfolio (3) drafts

• Insight Business draft

Personal electronic journal

Open a Word document and include these responses regularly (minimally)

• writing experience and goals for the course

• comments on each conference and reflections on your writing

• all writing assignment’s reflections

• reflections on the not-for-profit collaboration

• mid-term assessment of what you’ve learned about process and products

• final assessment of what you’ve learned about the writing process, your expected portfolio grade, and rationale for the grade

• final assessment of the team project—your learning, value to the community, ranking in comparison to peers’ projects

EVALUATION OF YOUR WORK

I will do my best to make my expectations for the various assignments clear and to evaluate them as fairly and objectively as I can. Come to my office if you have any questions. If you feel that an error has occurred in the grading of any assignment, you may, within one week of the date the assignment is returned to you, write me a memo in which you request that I re-evaluate the assignment. Attach the original assignment to the memo, and explain fully and carefully why you think the assignment should be re-graded. Be aware that the re-evaluation process can result in three types of grade adjustments: positive, none, or negative.

Your grade reflects your performance, professional writing and contributions to the learning environment . It is not based on percentages, nor on the Marshall target GPA. The grade may not represent all of your efforts in the class, but rather, it is determined by the USC rubric and in comparison to your peers’ writing. As a rule, more effort generally results in better writing and more successful collaborations.

Assessments of individual and collaborative assignments will be made. Papers will be judged “in relation to program standards and in comparison with other students’ texts. Evaluation is exclusively concerned with the qualities of the text as product” (WLH 2.1). Writing Evaluation will include assessment of audience analysis, thesis-driven exposition, development of argument, cogency, and style and grammar. See the USC writing rubric.

The final course grade also reflects your participation in class and as a collaborator with a not-for-profit agency. Your participation grade will evaluate your professional contributions to the class: discussion, attendance, promptness, teamwork, peer comments, and substantive ELECTRONIC POSTINGS which encourage others’ participation and which contribute to the goals of the class.

Grades will not be posted nor sent by email. They will be written on your evaluated assignments, provided during office conferences, and posted to Blackboard. In addition, they will be mailed if you submit an addressed stamped envelope at the end of the semester.

Retention of Graded Papers – Returned paperwork, unclaimed by a student, may be discarded four weeks after grades are posted by the University and, hence, will not be available should a grade appeal be pursued by a student following receipt of his/her course grade.

ONE-ON-ONE WRITING CONFERENCES

In addition to my office hours, we will meet, one-on-one, at least three times during the semester. These sessions will offer you an opportunity to discuss your writing strengths and specific difficulties you may have in the writing process; they are not intended to be discussions about your grades. Be certain to bring along your electronic journal, last graded assignment, and your in-progress writing task so we have something to work with. Also pay close attention to any special requirements for each conference that I might mention in class. Failure to attend a scheduled conference, or showing up late to one, counts the same as an absence or lateness in a regular class session (see below).

PROFESSIONALISM: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Preparation. You are expected to come to class fully prepared, with all required written assignments and reading completed. This includes being fully prepared even if you were unable to attend a previous class meeting. Always review the missed class with at least two classmates and review the class video. Check the Blackboard announcements and the calendar the evening before every class.

Attendance and punctuality.

You are expected to attend all scheduled class sessions and to be in your seat, ready to learn, at the start of class. More than two absences will negatively impact your final grade; if you are absent six or more times prior to the last day to withdraw from a course with a grade of W, you will be asked to withdraw by that date. Tardiness also lowers your participation grade. Most in-class activities have a ten point grade and cannot be made up for full credit.

Participation and classroom demeanor. Part of your grade is based on your positive participation, verbal and written. This means you are expected to be an active contributor to the class, not a passive listener. Volunteer relevant comments, ask questions yourself; request clarification if something isn’t clear; challenge others in a professional manner if you disagree with something presented; Your active participation can help determine whether our class atmosphere will be dull and pedantic or energetic and engaging. Also respond to peers’ comments on the threaded discussion.

• While you are in class you are expected to conduct yourself professionally. This includes being focused exclusively on WRIT 340, not on extraneous matters. Do not read newspapers, check messages, or eat in class. Turn off your cell phones or other electronic devices before class begins. Straighten up your area before you leave, so that the next class finds a clean and pleasant learning environment.

Treat everyone in the room with the same respect and consideration you want to receive from them. Do not interrupt or demonstrate rude behavior.

Assignments.

Assignments must be turned in at the beginning of the class period, on the front table, on the due date. Any assignment turned in late, even if by only a few minutes, will receive a grade deduction. If you are unable to attend class on the day a written assignment is due, make arrangements for it to be delivered to the classroom or to my box by the start of class. The grade on any assignment will be 0 (zero) points if it is submitted later than one week. Late or not, however, you must complete all required assignments to pass this course.

You must submit your final articles to Blackboard’s Turnitin assignment. If you don’t have it posted by the due date and time, the article is late.

NOTE: Documents will frequently be publicly posted and revised. An important part of this course is a series of writing workshops, in which students critique each others’ drafts of major assignments. You are expected to have a polished (not a rough) draft of the required assignment completed for peer evaluation. Failure to have a polished draft on the due date will result in a significant grade penalty for that assignment. Always keep copies of your documents in several areas. Lost/destroyed/broken computers or printers are not excuses for late work.

Electronic submissions will not be saved for more than a week. Be sure that you have made copies of any submissions.

Document FORMAT

Business documents, memos, letters, and reports: See Bailey for specific document’s requirements.

Type format: 10-12 point, New Times Roman font single-space, one inch margins, pages 2-x numbered.

Works Cited page and in-text citations should adhere to MLA standards.

Electronic Resources:

. You must have your UNIX, not your Marshall, password to access Blackboard.



















Insight Business.  The Center for Management Communication has instituted an online journal, Insight Business, with articles selected from WRIT340-Advanced Writing for Business classes. This is a legitimate publication and those whose papers are selected for publication will find this to be a valuable resume addition. See:

THE USC WRITING CENTER

The USC Writing Center, located on the third floor of Taper Hall, is an excellent resource for students who want to improve their writing. You may schedule 30-minute appointments with writing consultants trained to assist you in planning, organizing, correcting, and revising your assignments. Some consultants are graduate business students in the Marshall School of Business. Others have special skills in working with students for whom English is a second language.

The WC also offers a nine-week series of Writing Modules designed to help non-native speakers develop the skills they need to succeed in WRIT 340. In addition, there are daily workshops on troublesome language and grammar issues, open to all students.

It will usually be up to you whether or not to take advantage of the resources the Writing Center has to offer. On occasion, however, I will require visits to the Writing Center—sometimes on a regular basis—if I feel the need is present.

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the unacknowledged and inappropriate use of the ideas or wording of another individual . . . [It] is considered a grave violation of academic integrity and the sanctions against it are correspondingly severe (sanctions recommended by the university range from a grade of F in the course to suspension from the university. Most simply, plagiarism can be characterized as ‘academic theft.’

As defined in the University Student Conduct Code (published in the current SCampus), plagiarism includes:

• ‘The submission of material authored by another person but represented as the student’s own work, whether that material is paraphrased or copied in verbatim or near verbatim form;

• ‘The submission of material subjected to editorial revision by another person that results in substantive changes in content or major alteration of writing style;

• ‘Improper acknowledgment of sources in essays or papers.’

The Student Conduct Code applies these standards to any written work submitted by a student, whether a draft or a final version . . .

Because of the serious penalties for plagiarism, you should insure that any writing you submit represents your own assertions and abilities and incorporates other texts in an open and honest manner . . . In academic assignments, writing is assumed to be the original words and thoughts of the student unless [the reader is] told otherwise (i.e.: material from other sources is clearly and properly cited).

From Trojan Integrity: Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

(USC Office for Student Conduct, rev. Fall 2000, pp. 2-3)

* You will submit your three portfolio-worthy documents to Turnitin, or the documents will not be graded.

Assistance with Papers

In this course we encourage peer review, since it’s almost always helpful to have “another set of eyes” take a look at your paper and offer comments and suggestions. But where exactly is the boundary between helpful advice and illegitimate collaboration? Where should you draw the line?

The following guidelines from the Writing Program answer this question explicitly:

The Writing Program encourages collaboration with your instructor, with Writing Center consultants, and with your classmates; such interactions constitute one of the most important and effective means by which writing is taught. In undertaking collaborative interactions, however, remember that you are finally responsible for guaranteeing that the resulting text represents your abilities and authority and not those of the persons assisting you, however well-meaning they may be. A simple guideline may help: Never allow someone else to construct a section of your text longer than one or two sentences that you would not be able to produce on your own, and never allow anyone to copy-edit more than the first page of your paper.

Students with Disabilities

Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. You can obtain a letter of verification for approved accommodations from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to me as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. The phone number for DSP is (213) 740-0776.

Advanced Writing for Business

BLENDED class calendar

Calendar of Activities

Fall 2008

Follow these steps before each scheduled online or residential class

1. View the class announcements and agenda (course information folder)

2. Review the course calendar (Course information folder)

3. Review the “assignments” folder. Student samples are posted to BB or may be viewed in my office.

4. Read your USC email for any messages from teammates or me.

Readings will be found in your textbooks or posted to the Blackboard “readings” folder. Some readings will be marked “optional.” If you want to learn more, read this supplementary material.

Review the recent videocast or access the podcast (Bb Course Documents folder), or complete the assigned activity within 24 hours of each class that is designated as “online.”

If the residential class has a quiz or in-class activity, you have to complete that activity also. Listen for directions that I provide on the video.

Optional aid: See .

|Date & Location |Assignments completed before class |In-class activities |

|Aug 26 |Print and bring your |Discuss Self & class goals |

| |syllabus and calendar to class. |Assess your writing experience & projections for career writing |

|Meet on campus | | |

|In HOH 418 |Print, sign, and bring your transportation and IP |Review the syllabus |

|Class #1 |waivers (BB documents) | |

| | |Collaborative Project: agency deliverables |

| | |internal proposal |

| | |MOU |

| | |progress reports |

| | |formal report |

| | |executive summary |

| | |press release |

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| | |Writing Rubric & assessment protocol, |

| | |Pre-writing strategies |

| | |Collect Permission to publish & travel waiver |

|Aug 28 |Bailey. Chapter 1 “What Is Good Writing?” and |Diagnostic writing |

| |Chap 4 “Making Your Page Look Inviting” | |

|Meet on campus |And Appendix “C” |Discuss writer’s profile investigative memo |

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|Bring a laptop if you |Make an appointment with a professional in your area|8:30 Jerry Whitfield will introduce you to Second Life |

|have one. |of interest for your writer’s profile investigative | |

| |memo |Discuss: |

| | |What is effective business writing? What makes a good memo? |

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| | |Create an Internal memo. |

| | |Team collaborative data, goals, expectations, and penalties |

| | |along with agency’s data. |

| | |Post team’s internal memo to the discussion board |

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| | |Library access: |

| |Read Keller & Schwom. “Page Design” | |

|Sept 2 |(BB>documents>readings) |Est. interview questions for Writer’s Profile site visit |

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|Computer lab |Browne & Keeley Ch. 4 |Review MOU |

|Bridge 202 A | | |

| |Writing diagnostic. Post to assignment. |Critical thinking, business Style & tone— |

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|msbguest            |Post team’s internal memo to discussion board. |Email protocol |

|PASSWORD:    p6415W72 | | |

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|3. | | |

|Sept 4 |Bailey. Chap 2. “Developing a good style” | |

| |Browne and Keeley. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 | |

|Agency ‘s site visit | |Agency site visit. Discuss the writing deliverables and establish |

| |Team Meeting with your agency contact |the meetings, focus group, deliverables, and presentation dates. |

| | |Establish contact person for the agency and team and e-mail, |

| |Draft the MOU. Include all due dates for the agency|phone protocols. |

|4. |and you. | |

|Sept 9 | | |

| |Bailey Chap 3 “Examples” |Plain English, (Christopher Cox tape) |

|Go to BB>documents> |and “Illustrating” | |

|Video or podcast | |Organizing your message, content, format and readability |

| | |in business writing |

| |Website: Center for Ethics and Business. LMU. |Examples, Compare and contrast -- |

| |Toolkit>Take this quiz: | |

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| |Write your results & reflections |Discuss trade journal reading, |

|5. |in your electronic journal (Word doc) | |

| | |Electronic communication, blogs, E-mail, and discussion boards |

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| |“Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision|Conferences |

| |Making” | |

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| |ork.html | |

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|Sept 11 |Post MOU to the discussion board. | |

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|Meet on campus | | |

| | |Group role play. Maria Elena |

|Last day to drop without | | |

|“W” | | |

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|6. | | |

|Sept 16 |Gandossy and Kanter. “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, |Discuss Formal report and agency deliverables |

| |Speak No Evil” (Bb docs>readings) | |

|Online session. | |Peer review of Writer’s Profile investigative memo-assigned partners |

| |View: Christopher Cox, SEC | |

|View | |Ethics in business—importance of models |

|Video or podcast |Post progress report # 1- review of all previous | |

| |meetings and future plans & dates to discussion | |

|7. |board. | |

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| |E-mail a copy to your agency contact | |

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| |Post polished draft of Writer’s Profile | |

| |investigative memo to the discussion board and bring| |

| |a hardcopy for class | |

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|Sept 18 |Writer’s Profile investigative memo (hardcopy with |Agency site visit |

| |supplementary materials in folder). Put this in my | |

|Agency site visit |mailbox before class. (ACC 400) | |

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|8. |Browne & Keeley Ch. 12 & 13. | |

|Sept 23 |Post progress report |Lay-outs (visual integration) of business documents. |

| |# 2 student (e-mail to agency & hardcopy to me) | |

| | |Team meeting |

|Online session. |Browne & Keeley | |

| |-rival causes and use of statistics. | |

|View | | |

|Video or podcast |See: | |

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|9. | | |

|Sept 25 | | |

| |Post Trade journal ltr draft to discussion board and|Trade journal peer editing on two peers’ articles |

|Online session. |bring hardcopy to class | |

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|View |Bailey. Chap 5 “Making Your Main Point Easy to Find”| |

|Video or podcast | | |

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|10. | | |

|Sept 30 |Trade journal letter -post to Bb Turnitin and bring | |

| |hardcopy to class |On-line library resources guest lecture. |

|Meet on campus | | |

| |Browne & Keeley “Value conflicts and assumptions”& |Library access: |

| |“Descriptive Assumptions” | |

| | |Discuss triangulation of sources-online research, survey, |

|11 |Post progress report 3 |focus group |

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| | |Determine assessment tools for deliverables, |

| | |formal report and presentation, storyboard, & team evaluations. |

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| | |Discuss ethics white paper. |

|Oct 2 |. | |

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|12. |Post progress report # 4 student |Writing and discussion |

| |—Include each teammate’s perceptions on a pie chart | |

| |and strategies for change. |Distribute Thomas Friedman. The World is Flat & |

| | |“what convergence means for you” |

| |Friedman, Milton. “The Social Responsibility of |(hand out) |

| |Business is to Increase Its Profits.” NYT. 1970 (BB | |

| |docs) | |

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| |*************** | |

| |Davis, Ian. “What is the Business of Business?” | |

| |McKinsey Quarterly. 2006 | |

| |(optional BB) | |

|Oct 7 |Kelly. “The Shining Side of Capitalism” article |Team assessment and strategy development |

| |(BB>docs>ethics) | |

|Online session. | |Discuss Kelly’s article, the impact of ethical training on |

| | |corporate culture and best practices of corporate |

|View | |social responsibility. |

|Video or podcast |Post comments to discussion board reporting which | |

| |business & cultural issues your agency and its |The 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2007: |

| |clients face. | |

|13 | | |

| | |Discuss Thomas Friedman’s comments. |

|Oct 9 | | |

| |Class eval of your learning (Post comments to your |Agency site visit |

| |e-journal) | |

| | |FOCUS group or survey |

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|14. | | |

|Oct 14 | | |

| | |Business ethics-“Defining Moments” |

|Online session. |Progress report # student 5-- | |

| |Report on the survey or focus group findings | |

|View | | |

|Video or podcast |Browne & Keeley. Ch. 8 Evidence & 9 Evidence. | |

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| |Badaracco. “Defining Moments” | |

| |(BB>docs>readings) | |

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| |The Institute for Business and Professional Ethics | |

|15. |website | |

| |(optional) | |

|Oct 16 |Post ethics white paper draft to the discussion |Team Rehearsal w/camera –Ipod appointments at library |

| |board | |

|On-campus | |Peer editing-bring a hardcopy of the ethics draft. |

| |Post questions and arguments to two classmates’ | |

| |drafts—students not in your class section. Bring a | |

| |hardcopy to class. | |

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|16. |Bailey 12 Documenting Your Sources” | |

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|Oct 21 | |Discuss ABC competition and Insight Business/Critical thinking |

| |Bilefsky. “Financial Rewards of Showing Integrity” |Assignment: |

|Online session. |(BB>docs>readings) | |

| | | |

|View | |Effective Evidence |

|Video or podcast | |Citations |

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|17. | |See: |

|Oct 23 | | |

| |Ethics article (hardcopy and submit to Bb |Team meeting-electronic or f2f |

|View video or podcast |Turnitin--BB) | |

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|18. | | |

|Oct 28 |Post each individual’s section of the Agency’s |Discuss the formal report and executive summary |

| |Deliverable to the assignment folder | |

|19. | | |

| Oct 30 | |Rehearse & tape agency presentation. |

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|20. | | |

|Oct 29 |About the Social Innovation Fast Pitch Competition | |

| |An exciting event hosted by Los Angeles Social | |

|4-7:30 pm |Venture Partners, Social Enterprise Institute and | |

| |the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation | |

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| |The formal program will including a keynote by Ethos| |

| |Water founder and former Vice President for | |

| |Starbucks Coffee, Jonathan Greenblat, an interactive| |

| |discussion of social innovation, and live, | |

| |three-minute ‘pitches’ from local nonprofits* | |

| |selected for their innovative approaches for | |

| |creating social change and their ability to | |

| |powerfully communicate their vision. Participating | |

| |nonprofits will compete for the chance to present | |

| |their ideas to a panel of experts and to win up to | |

| |$10,000 in funding. | |

|Nov 4 | |Agency Presentations |

| |Agency Presentations | |

|Online session. | |Deliver the team’s writing product to the agency contact. |

| |Deliver the team’s writing product to the agency |Discuss ABC competition |

|View |contact. | |

|Video or podcast | | |

| |Bailey. Appendix B “Creating Reports” | |

|21. | | |

| |Post each individual’s written section of the formal| |

| |report to the BB assignment folder | |

|Nov 6 | | |

| |“Why Business Can’t Control Chicanery” | |

|Campus |(Bb>docs>readings>ethics) | |

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|22. | | |

|Nov 11 |Formal report ( 2 copies) |Discuss press release (collaborative-Google apps) |

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|Online session. | |& portfolio |

| |Post each individual’s Executive summary | |

|View |to assignment folder (Bb) |rank formal reports |

|Video or podcast | | |

| | |Pre-write Insight Business article in-class |

|23. | | |

|“Safari of the Soul: The | | |

|Quest for Water in | | |

|Africa” Visions and | | |

|Voices. 7:00 pm Town and | | |

|Gown | | |

|Nov 13 | |Conferences |

| |Insight Business polished draft. | |

|Online session. | |I B voluntary Peer editing |

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|View | | |

|Video or podcast | | |

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|24. | | |

|Nov 18 |Insight Business--Critical thinking article | |

| |(hardcopy & Bb Turnitin-BB |Press release team writing— Use Google apps. |

|Last day to drop with a | | |

|“W” |Post peer/self rating to assignment folder. |Portfolio conference |

| |(Forms are found in BB collaboration folder) | |

|Campus | | |

|Computer lab | | |

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|PASSWORD:    p7223W75 | | |

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|25. | | |

|Nov 25 |Post e-journal to the Bb assignment folder. |Portfolio conferences- Bring your assessment of your writing |

| |Insight Business article hardcopy & Turnitin |process and plans for your portfolio (in your e-journal. |

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|Dec 2 | | |

| |All My Sons |All My Sons in-class writing |

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|Dec 4 | | |

| | |Portfolio rankings |

|Class # 28 |Portfolios (= final exam) | |

Rev 8/20/2008

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