Gantt Chart Assignment

This document first describes a Gantt chart and then explains the two phases of the assignment.

A Gantt chart is a chart that is used to layout the phases and target dates of a project. Notice in the chart below that the various tasks are listed along the left column and the times are listed across the top.

Writing the Paper on Rhetorical Invention
Tasks	January	February	March	April	May	June
Review the Parameters	4 ----10
Gather and read sources	1------------	----------------	----------------	---------22
Experiment with patterns	8------	----------------	----------------	---------22
Write preliminary draft			15 -----	----------------	--------20
Revise for submission					15----------	----13
Send article in						--15

This simple Gantt chart is for one project. It allows me to see that certain tasks need to be going on simultaneously. You can also make Gantt charts using Excel spreadsheat. See this example (it is for a similar but not an identical class). Here's another example in Word (this too is not the same class). These two Gantt charts were developed for an earlier version of this class, so the assignments are not identical.

For your assignment, you are to think of the assignments for this class as making up one large project—completing the work for English 320. Therefore, you should list the various major papers and presentations (the ones in red text in the grading rubric are the major projects) down the left side and the months of the semester or session across the top. Fill in the time span for each project on the chart based on the syllabus deadlines and your analysis of how long each will take.

If you are taking this class online as an individual, you may use the 1:2, 2:2 numbering system for weeks, but I want you also to list the due dates for each assignment based on real calendar dates starting from the first week you enrolled in the course.