English 379 -- Web Page


Now available: the beginnings of the Technical Communications Resource Site, by Dr. Michael Day's students at South Dakota Tech.

SYLLABUS

LAB ASSIGNMENTS

ORAL PRESENTATION 1 (Group Leadership) and revised schedule for March 1997

Interview Assignment

Progress Report Assignment

Directions for Final Project

Final Project Groups

1. Search Internet discussion groups using

The List of Lists

To search for usenet newsgroups, go to the Yahoo Newsgroup Listings

2. Our class newsgroup is sdsmt.classes.day379. Remember that because of limited space, your posting may be rejected due to no fault of your own. Just remember that any rejected post is saved in the dead.article file in your silver account. You can try again later by reading the dead.article file into a new post.

3. The world wide web will be a great source of information for our class. Although searching for a source is easy (use the SEARCH button in Netscape), here are a few key sites for Tech Comm II:

Since the gopher version of the Online Career Center seems not to work any longer, you will have better luck using the World Wide Web to connect.

Online Career Center:

http://www.occ.com/

The Internet Resume Association:

http://www.sasknet.com/~lalibert/tira/

Information on business marketing, recruiting, and job-hunting:

http://www.interbiznet.com/

To search for businesses on line:

http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/yellow_pages.html

Internet Resources for Technical Communication:

http://www.rpi.edu/~perezc2/tc/

Guide to citing electronic sources:

http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html

Kiplinger Online Business Forecasts and Personal Finance Advice:

http://www.kiplinger.com/

Sites for public service projects, to get ideas for class projects:

http://www.brown.edu/Swearer_Center/projects/projects.html

http://www.ume.maine.edu/researchpublic.html

http://www.state.ny.us/pac/

Go to Dr. Day's home page with links to some of his projects and articles

mday@silver.sdsmt.edu