Some Select Comments About Planning Your Course

With regard to planning, please let me offer my syllabus (containing my basic assignments--pretty detailed) and a day-one
handout called "What is English 145.13". Folks might find them helpful since I've been teaching ENG145.13 since the Fall of 2003.

Link to "What is English 145.13?"
Link to sample syllabus

I usually plan just once a semester because I adhere to the notion that planning is for preparation. In other words, I do my planning to prepare me to teach and to inform---not direct--- what I'm doing in the classroom.

Link to a sample syllabus
Link to sample schedule

My course is designed as a course in understanding the rhetoric of writing. Students’ primary objective in the course is to learn to write for any professional audience by knowing how to analyze that audience, understand its needs, and know how to best speak to that audience in writing. Each assignment builds on the previous one to better familiarize students with different professional audiences. I encourage students to find a variety of audiences, but to also explore audiences that they are likely to write to or for in their internships, majors, and professional careers.

The assignment sequence I have used in the past include: Resume/Cover Letter Writing, Writing Business Case Studies, Addressing a Local Audience, Addressing an International Audience, Promoting a Product, Presenting the Product/Marketing Strategy, Analyzing the Semester.

Link to a sample syllabus

Also, see Course Design Considerations (in the A-toZ Index)