Introduction to Technical Communication

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL C1000 (ENGL 101). This advanced composition course gives students instruction and practice in skills particular to writing in technical and professional fields. Students will develop their critical awareness of audience and audience-specific language use, as they become familiar with forms specific to technical environments, such as report writing, process analysis, charts, graphs, other presentations of numerical data, instruction manuals, and data analysis. While practicing critical thinking and writing skills, students will learn to analyze important details about technical writing situations, compose according to the results of their analysis, and learn to write in working groups, with special attention to logic and clarity. (CSU, AVC)