Technical Writing

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to help the students to improve their writing skills and to learn strategies for successful writing both in college and professional practice.  The course helps the students to analyze essays as well as to demonstrate the writing process. The students learn to write effective essays; learn to write strong, clear, effective sentences and well-developed paragraphs; to eliminate wordiness, weak expressions, and ambiguity.

 

Course Content:

 

        Plans for development of skills

  1. How to read a scientific way.

  2.  The necessary steps to facilitate the reading.

  3.  How to write a scientific way.

  4.  The necessary steps to facilitate the writing.

  5.  Study of Practice situations.

  6.  Study of grammar.

  7.  The development of presentation skills.

  8.  Develop and improve the quality of writing and reading and dumping.

10.   The development of technical resources and their use in scientific writing.

Skills expected from this course:

Upon finishing this course, the student should:

  1. Use the writing process to plan, develop, write, revise, and edit all essays including pre-writing and collection of ideas, invention of topics, writing several drafts, revising and editing.

  2. Review grammar, composition strategies, and audience analysis as well as explore values in their reading and writing.

  3. Develop a clear, effective writing style using standard American written English.

  4. Assign readings and respond to them both orally and written.

  5. Develop community within their classroom by sharing ideas from their reading in small groups and in whole class discussion, using standard American spoken English.

  6. Write documented essay using documentation facilities available in the College library, computer labs, and using accurate documentation techniques.

Textbook:
Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu, "Hand-Book of Technical Writing" St. Martin's Press; Ninth Edition, Revised Edition (November 25, 2008), ISBN-10: 0312575122

Reference:
Carrie Hannigan, Carrie Wells, Carolyn Stevenson, Tanya Peterson, Diane Martinez, "Kaplan Technical Writing: A Resource for Technical Writers at All Levels", Kaplan Publishing; Original edition (August 5, 2008), ISBN-10: 1427797218

Last Update
11/21/2011 7:19:22 PM