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Assignments

Class participation (5%)

Your class participation grade depends upon your showing up prepared for class discussion. During these discussions, you must show evidence that you have read the textbook assignments by being able to talk about them intelligently. This means more than just answering questions when being called on. You need to contribute regularly to class discussions on your own initiative.

Quizzes (20%)

These quizzes are designed to test your comprehension of chapters from the textbooks and will be unannounced to ensure you read consistently and carefully.

Short assignments (30%)

These short assignments—to be completed both in-class and out of class—will fall mostly during the first half of the semester:

Information design project (45%)

Working with a real client organization, you and a partner will design or redesign a set of information products to meet the communication needs of their primary and secondary audiences. The project as a whole encompasses three assignments, as follows: