Go to Assignment #1 and complete this brief assignment by the end of the first week of class.  

•Note:  This class was formerly titled Technical Writing; most all the concepts of Technical Writing relate to professional writing.  In either case, this is “real life” useful writing used in the workplace, not in a school setting.

•Everything on this class website is organized:

   •By clicking on the tabs in the navigation bar above to take you to the page that the assignments or other information is located upon and

   •By clicking the links on each page on the words in blue:  Note: If the link shows yellow, touch it, it will change to red, then click on the links.  This is true for all the links in the website.•

•There are ten Assignments (1-10) each of which has its own page which includes items to be downloaded, such as:

•Read the course outline for additional information about class assignments, calendar guidelines, grading policies, and other needed course information.  Click the links here for the course outline:

Class Notes -- The Class "Textbook"

•You can download and save the entire Class Notes booklet (which serves the textook for the class by clicking here.  Each assignment will indicate the primary pages in the Class Notes related to that assignment; occasionally, there will be references to other sections of the Class Notes.

    or click here  

•Read the follwing page in the website -- Assignment Guides -- for additional information regarding assignments.


•Instructor Resume:  Click here just in case you wanted to make sure that your instructor was not standing on a street corner with a sign indicating "Will teach writing for food"...

Writing 212:  

Writing for the Professions

Instructor:  Ed Lindquist

Fall 2024

Navigation Bar Found on Each Page to Move from Page to Page in the Website

•Always scroll to the bottom of pages in the website.

•The Assignment and Directions

•The Related Video Lesson

•The Pages of the Class Notes Related to the Assignment

•Templates of Documents

•Student Samples of the Assignment

•Video Helps

Do's and don't's for the class:

Do communicate (keep in touch so that I know if you have problems and where you are).

Don't procrastinate (keep on schedule or you will have a miserable last few weeks of class trying to get everything done and not doing a very good job working in a rush)