Agenda

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Agenda

• Collaborative revision and presentation
  strategies
• Gender and business communication
• Proposal and presentation work time

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Collaborative revision

• There are many kinds of drafts not all of them
  are useful in every situation
• Different drafts call for different kinds of
  feedback
• As a writer, knowing what to ask for saves time
  and minimizes conflict
• As an editor, knowing how to respond saves time
  and minimizes conflict

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Types of drafts and their uses

• Preliminary draft
• Uses getting ideas on paper, especially if you
  have lots of time
• Feedback do self-revision first, then develop
  questions to ask. Focus on big picture -
  whats confusing or unclear, what information is
  missing
• Review draft
• Uses obtaining feedback on issues of content or
  organization
• Feedback focus on organization and format,
  persuasive adaptiveness, strategic opening and
  closing
• Near-final draft
• Uses polishing and wordsmithing
• Feedback concentrate on sentence structure and
  proofreading

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Cycling in the collaborative process
group drafting
process feedback
external feedback
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Collaborative presentation

• Know group members strengths and weaknesses,
  areas of comfort and stress
• Use your resources effectively
• Plan for transitions (content and space)
• Help each other
• Practice, practice, practice...

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Gender and communication

• Behavior and interpretation male vs. female
• Tone of voice, speed of delivery, volume
• Turn taking
• Conversational rituals (exchanging compliments,
  avoiding conflict, minimizing boasting)
• Use of pronouns
• Asking questions
• Level of directness

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Gender and communication

• Read the brief case and individually write down
  what you would do
• Pair up (or if necessary get into a small group
  with) someone of the opposite gender
• Discuss how you responded to the situation
• Do you think gender influenced responses to the
  situation? If so, how?

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Gender neutral language

• Pros and cons (Is it just PC?)
• Practical considerations
• Suggestions and exercise

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Collaborative work time

• As a group, prepare a brief (one or two
  paragraph) summary of your topic
• Include the following
• Documents to be analyzed
• Key background to be considered
• Methods to be used
• Major problem(s) to be addressed

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Assignment

• Be prepared for a timed writing assignment in
  class on Thursday (Section 003)
• Sign up for a presentation time slot
• Work on your collaborative report and
  presentation
• Read Ch. 3 in EBC

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Assignment

• Be ready to discuss the Japanese e-mail project
  (Section 004)
• Sign up for a presentation time slot
• Work on your collaborative report and
  presentation
• Read Ch. 3 in EBC