ENGL& 235 Technical Writing (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Communications; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 111 - CCN
Prerequisite ENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0 or better.
Course Description
This course focuses on the varied genres, rhetorical situations, and work patterns of technical writing across an array of professional and academic contexts.
Course Content
A. Genre and rhetorical situations related to technical writing (e.g. feasibility reports, investigative reports, proposals, written instructions)
B. Writing processes (e.g. composition, critical thinking, idea-building, drafting, editing, revision, iterative writing processes)
C. Digital Communications
D. Emerging technologies
F. Information Literacy (critical information literacies)
G. Information Design, visual rhetorics and medium
H. Collaboration
I. Issues of ethics, equity, and access
Student Outcomes
1. Create both individual and collaborative projects that demonstrate knowledge of rhetorical situations and genre in the context of technical communication.
2. Experiment with and troubleshoot processes of working with new media in rhetorical situations that call for the use of digital communication.
3. Evaluate style, form, convention, and information design, both in one’s work and the work of others.
4. Apply research processes and use source materials based on need, circumstance, and type of inquiry to provide sound, evidentiary support for projects.
5. Implement strategies for addressing issues of ethics, equity, and accessibility in the context of technical writing projects.
6. Reflect on how individuals’ (i.e. learners and instructor) positional identities in the learning spaces shape an understanding of the field of study.
Degree Outcomes
Communication: Graduates identify, analyze and evaluate rhetorical strategies in their own and other’s writing in order to communicate effectively.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Communication: Graduates identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and other’s writing in order to communicate effectively.
Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: proposals, a variety of reports (research, analytical, feasibility, etc.), user manuals and documentation, visual presentations, web texts, essays
B. Projects: group, individual, multimedia
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities; peer reviews and writing communities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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