Week One
Tuesday, January 13th
- Introduction to course and website.
- Preview of Course Projects and Business Idea Pitch
For Next Time:
- Read Course Description, Calendar, Course Philosophy, and Project pages on website.
- Read What is Rhetoric? and Perspectives on the Study of Rhetoric by Foss, Foss, and Trapp.
- Complete Blog Prompt: What is the role of writing and persuasion for an entrepreneur? How does that relate to what you hope to get from the course? (tag this entry role of writing)
- Comment on another student's blog post.
Thursday, January 15th
For Next Time:
- Read "Introduction" (pp. 1-14) in Anne Surma's Public and Professional Writing (from here on this text will be referred to as Surma)
- Read Chapter One (pp. 15-35) in Surma
- Read job ads (in the field/industry in which you will propose to start a business) to get ideas for your skills list.
- Post a list of 15-20 necessary skills for an entrepreneur as a blog posting for Tuesday's discussion (tag this entry skills list).
- Respond (as a comment) to two other student's skill lists (100 words each) who included skills that you hadn't considered. Read the commenting guidelines for assistance on how to approach this.
- Continue thinking about and researching your business idea for the Business Idea Pitch Competition.