ENG301
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Technical Writing
Course Description
This course will instruct students on how to produce technical communications that include but are not limited to instructional, transactional, and analytical types of rhetoric. The course will use specific types of technical communications found in both the technical and business fields to teach students the expectations and purposes attached to these communications. Students will understand the correlation between the author, audience, and text itself, and produce examples of these texts with clarity, brevity, and accuracy.
Value
3
Grading Type
Letter Grade
Campus
Course Equivalencies
1. Accurately document sources using a specific style guide.
2. Produce a body of writing that meets the needs of a variety of audiences and rhetorical situations
3. Produce at least thirty pages of polished writing, including at least twenty pages of instructor-assessed writing
4. Write a cogent, extended argument framed by reliable research.
5. Synthesize data in a clearly written report
6. Write substantive critiques of complex arguments.
1. Produce instructional, transactional, and analytical technical communication deliverables.
2. Understand the parameters and purposes of specific genres of technical communication in order to construct deliverables that respond to stakeholder requirements and expectations.
3. Deliver technical communications with clarity, brevity, and accuracy.
4. Implement research of systems or software in deliverables.
5. Translate technical terms and concepts to stakeholders or nontechnical audiences.
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ENG301
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