CLASS NOTES ASSIGNMENT

To keep a running record of the material we cover in class, each of you will be responsible for taking and posting classnotes for one class this session. In the working world, most people attend meetings-often technical briefings-during which the business conducted is "for the record." For future reference, a recording secretary takes notes and writes up the minutes.
To give you practice in writing memos and organizing material, each of you will assume the role of recording secretary for one session. Using Burnett pages 497-499 as guidelines, write the minutes for the assigned class session, post a copy to the classlist and bring a hardcopy to the next class to be graded. The individual who takes classnotes/minutes becomes our in-house resource for anyone who has questions about the material covered.

Your audience is the class, both students present and students absent that day.

Your purpose is to convey the essential information for that session.

Your content should include:

	announcements (especially changes in readings or assignments)
	explanation of new material and new assignments
	summary of lecture/discussion/workshop (what we did and with what results)
	list of absentees
	all information specified in Burnett, see especially figure 16.7

Minutes will be due the next class session. I take volunteers for this assignment; each set of classnotes becomes part of the class grade. See a sample of the assignment posted on your list.