http://tc.eserver.org/authors/L'Eplattenier,_Barbara A bibliography of works by L'Eplattenier, Barbara in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/L'Eplattenier,_Barbara http://tc.eserver.org/21582.html http://tc.eserver.org/21582.html The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Department of Rhetoric and Writing has been an independent department since 1993. When we left the English Department, the writing programs -- composition, the shared B.A. program in Professional and Technical Writing, and the M.A. program in Technical and Expository Writing -- naturally came with us. What we didn't have was a developmental vision of a program. http://tc.eserver.org/14342.html http://tc.eserver.org/14342.html This course is designed to help you accomplish the following goals: To give you practice understanding, analyzing, and responding to writing situations. To help you recognize, learn and use persuasive strategies. To help you construct rhetorically effective arguments. To write to multiple audiences, recognizing and anticipating their differing needs. To recognize and use effectively different standard genres. To learn about and incorporate document design into your writing process. http://tc.eserver.org/14341.html http://tc.eserver.org/14341.html Professional writers are primarily concerned with the effective delivery of information to specific audiences, whether through a paper medium (such as a brochure or memo) or an electronic medium (such as a web site). A wide variety of factors impact this delivery: an understanding of audience (both multiple and widely differing), the organization of information, readability, the ability to navigate a document, ease of use, placement and use of visuals/graphics, text, etc. This course will teach you to think about the overall design of a web site, about how audiences use and read web pages, about effective writing styles for the web, and about a host of other issues that address the delivery of information.