THE EARLY HISTORY OF TECHNICAL WRITING.

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Focuses on writing in technical, scientific, and/or professional subject matters of the medieval or early modern periods to understand the relation between an earlier stage in the development of technical writing and current practices. Assignments may include transcription and coding from medieval or early modern texts to a searchable database; a comparison of a genre of medieval or early modern technical writing with a current genre; a rewriting of technical, scientific, and/or professional subject matters from the medieval or early modern texts into modern parlance; a user manual on how to code and upload manuscripts; and/or a Fab Lab, maker-space project based on early technical writing. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 2338 or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 2338 .