Course Description

This course is designed to help you become proficient at technical communication in both academic and professional settings. In this class you will produce a variety of documents designed to help you:

• Develop effective, clear, and user-friendly paper and online documents
• Develop a professional writing style for various rhetorical contexts and audiences
• Understand what constitutes effective document design
• Create online content for specific purposes
• Produce quality documents in a team setting
• Gain experience in creating and delivering oral presentations
  

This class is about learning skills that you will need while on the job. For this reason, all of the assignments are designed to give you further knowledge of particular aspects of on-the-job communication.

The assignments for this class are as follows:

• A job application where you create a resume and cover letter based on a job/internship advertisement (individual assignment)
• A memo in which you study in detail aspects of technical communication in your major/field of studies through a personal interview and a professional journal article analysis (individual assignment)
• A set of instructions in which you are asked to incorporate clear instructions , visual rhetoric, and considerations of user-friendliness (usability) (group assignment)
• A website that introduces the below technical report project that you will be working on at the end of the semester(group assignment)
• A technical report, written collaboratively, in which you identify a local issue/problem, do research on the problem, and write a final technical report on your group's issue (group assignment)
  
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