The Syllabus and Assignment Collection is available to graduate students and other Virginia Tech faculty teaching business and/or technical writing. by invitation. Use the Contact Form to request access.
These additional assignments are openly available:
- Ethics and Professional Writing
- Writing Effective Email Messages
- Simplifying the First Days
- Outside Genre Capstone Assignment
- Using a Spreadsheet Assignment
- Professional Bio Assignment
- Trip Report Assignments
Course Websites
The following sites include course resources for courses taught at Virginia Tech and other schools. Many of the resources are archival sites, so you may notice some links that do not work or that connect to private resources (e.g., Scholar sites):
- Traci Gardner’s Courses (Virginia Tech)
- Kristin L. Arola’s Courses (Washington State)
Assignments from OCELOT
OCELOT is the Outcome-Centered Electronic Library of Teaching Resources, maintained by the GTA education faculty in the Virginia Tech Department of English. The collection focuses primarily on teaching first-year composition, but it includes these assignments and activities that are relevant to teaching business and technical writing: