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COMP5703

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Technical Writing

English & Humanities School of Arts and Sciences

Course Description

This will prepare students to handle typical workplace assignments in a competent and professional manner. It will also prepare students to communicate their ideas effectively in writing to persons in and out of professional disciplines. The course centers on the knowledge and practice of format and style in technical writing when producing upper-level documents; this includes an emphasis on audience analysis and document design as well as research and editing decisions in the composition of long formats. A required component of this course is a Service-Learning project. An emphasis is placed on oral presentations. *Please Note: This course may not be used to fulfill the required credit for the ASC Basic Communication General Education.

Credit Hours

3

Course Prerequisites

Course Attributes

Applied Learning-Service-Learn (ALSL), Gen Ed - Credit Only (GEB9), Liberal Arts and Science (LAS), Upper Level (UPPR)