ENGL 3335 Technical Writing

Comprehensive study of the skills you will need to write scientific and technical documents. The course will introduce the rhetorical principles and compositional practices necessary for writing effective and professional communications, such as reports, instructions, and documentation within various professions.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

2000-level ENGL course with a grade of "C" or better.

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: fall day.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Participate effectively in individual and collaborative writing processes modeled on production in the professional workplace.
2. Apply technical information and knowledge in practical documents for a variety of both professional and public audiences.
3. Improve editing skills required when writing in a business setting: concision, clarity, coherence, sentence cohesion, accuracy; effective use of summary, paraphrase, rhetorical framing, and transitional devices.
4. Apply the rhetorical strategies and formal elements of specific technical communication genres: abstracts, reports, instructional manuals, technical descriptions, web pages, wikis, and various forms of correspondence.
5. Engage and report research in coherent and ethical manner.
6. Design useful graphic aids as supplements to written documents.
7. Recognize and use professional formatting in print, html, and multimedia modes.
8. Revise and edit writing effectively, including informal documents such as email correspondence.