ENGL 1025 - Technical and Professional Writing

1. Critical reading of technical/professional genres
   • Understanding genre conventions
   • Analyzing audiences and purposes
   • Evaluating evidence and source material
2. Engaging in constructive, user-based critique
   • Providing written and/or oral responses to others¿ writing
   • Revising based on feedback and self-assessment
3. Introduction to technical/professional writing discourse
   • Reviewing basic rhetoric, as appropriate to technical/professional contexts
   • Defining purpose, need, genre, and medium
   • Writing to meet readers¿ needs
   • Evaluating usability
   • Collaborating
   • Conducting primary and secondary research
   • Using summary, paraphrase, and quotation effectively
   • Acknowledging resources/references
   • Writing with coherence and clarity
   • Employing appropriate organization and design
   • Using visuals
   • Responding thoughtfully and respectfully to the ideas of others
4. Planning and completion of other technical/professional writing projects, such as
   • Abstracts/executive summaries
   • Proposals
   • Informational materials (memos, reports, brochures, incident reports, processes and procedures, technical descriptions, white papers, manuals, web-based writing)
5. Planning and completion of purposeful, user-based technical/professional writing projects
   • Instructions
   • A substantial document, with sustained technical/professional discourse, in the student¿s discipline, career field, or interest area
6. Review of the writing process, as appropriate to technical/professional contexts

1. use current technology effectively to produce technical/professional documents.
2. use visuals effectively.
3. write documents that fulfill the purpose and scope of assignments.
4. articulate ethical dimensions of technical/professional communication.
5. select appropriate and effective style, organization, and format.
6. assess information to incorporate sources effectively into technical/professional documents.
7. employ standard conventions of grammar and usage.
8. create documents that meet the needs of a target audience.
9. analyze the needs of a target audience.

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