#27357
Technical and Professional Editing
In this class, you will learn how to edit technical documents, from proofreading for errors at the surface to ensuring that the document contains appropriate content, organization, and visuals for its audiences. Students will also learn how to use traditional editing marks, editing functions within word processors, and principles of layout and design.
Eaton, Angela. Texas Tech University (2006). Academic>Courses>Technical Editing
#22347
Technical and Professional Writing
To understand technical documents as audience-centered and write for a target audience. To realize that knowledge is socially constructed and that writing is determined to a large extent by context. To improve grammar, mechanics, and style. To write for the Internet and become familiar with the weblog as a writing genre. To design and test a set of instructions. To use software tools, simple design principles, and effective typography to create documents with superior readability and usability. To create a major report using multiple information-gathering techniques, including library research and interview. To learn the differences among various writing genres used in the workplace, including the memo, proposal, progress report, and research report.
Ratliff, Clancy. University of Minnesota (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#14181
Technical and Professional Writing
This course is designed to strengthen your understanding and mastery of language in the context of technical and professional communication. This involves exploring the concept of rhetoric and the various rhetorical options available for a given professional writing task. The truth is, you already know what rhetoric is in an instinctive way. Without knowing it, you use rhetoric in conversation and personal letters. The aim of the course, however, is to raise your rhetorical awareness to a more conscious and effective level when you sit down to write in the workplace.
Chilson, Peter. Washington State University. Academic>Courses>Business Communication>Technical Writing
#23683
This course assists students in developing the writing ability required by their future professions. All assignments are writing-intensive.
Yeats, Dave. Texas Tech University (2004). Academic>Courses>TC
#22581
This course is designed to provide a forum for experiential learning. As such, it demands a high level of person-to-person communication and interaction that centers on the challenges of real-life contextual communication.
Herrington, TyAnna K. Georgia Institute of Technology (1998). Academic>Courses>TC
#20387
This web site is one of the online resources for English 271 students at MSU, Mankato. In addition, the instructor uses the gradebook feature in Ucompass Educator, our university's e-learning platform.
Tesdell, Lee S. Minnesota State University, Mankato (2003). Academic>Courses>Online>Technical Writing
#20348
In this course we will explore the various forms and media by which working professionals convey technical information to both expert and novice audiences. As a student in this course, you will learn to write a variety of genres used in technical communication -- resumés and cover letters, memos, proposals, progress reports and final reports.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2003). Academic>Courses>TC>Technical Writing
#15040
In this course, we will explore the various forms and media by which working professionals convey technical information to both internal and external audiences. As a student in this course, you will learn to write a variety of genres used in technical communication -- résumés and cover letters, memos, proposals, progress reports, and final reports. To facilitate production of such documents, you will also learn to use several types of desktop software, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as others.
Honeycutt, Lee. Iowa State University (2001). Academic>Courses>TC>Technical Writing
#14845
In this course we will work together to create technical documents such as instructions, online help documents, web sites, and presentations. We will learn to take into account the context for our work: who is the audience for the document? why are we writing this document? what are we writing about?
Tesdell, Lee S. Minnesota State University, Mankato (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#14844
This course is designed to give you practice in written communication, oral communication, design production, and design evaluation. Technical communication requires you to respond to a variety of specific audiences and to express yourself successfully in written, visual, and oral communication.
Brooks, Kevin. NDSU (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#14843
Technical Communication for Information Professionals
This course will provide students with an understanding of the technical and professional documents they will generate and use as information professionals. Students will be introduced to strategies for communicating effectively about technical matters to a variety of audiences and will gain experience in the production and delivery of different types of technical communication, including print documents, electronic documents, and oral presentations. Attention will be given to the writing process, with emphasis on audience analysis, document design, and peer editing. Students will complete individual and collaborative assignments.
Dulaney, William L. Florida State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#14854
Technical Communication Practices
LCC 3401 provides information regarding the principles and concepts of technical communication and creates opportunities for students to practice technical communication skills in developing proposals, analytical reports, and related oral presentations. The course integrates information delivery through an interactive website with activities in production classrooms containing 25 students. Students will work with students in Russia and locally at Georgia Tech in interactive Internet environments to develop materials, gather responses, and engage in critical analyses while pursuing collaborative analytic projects.
Herrington, TyAnna K. Georgia Institute of Technology (2001). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#13955
CSIS 500, Technical Communication, Graduate Programs in Software, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. The fundamentals of technical communication as practiced in industry are presented, emphasizing clarity and organizational skills. Students engage in exercises that focus on technical writing, editing, public speaking and graphic design, and apply their skills across a broad range of activities, including critique of presentations and writing of proposals, reports, memoranda, user manuals, instructional modules, and specifications. Techniques presented are intended to assist an understanding of the structure of the language, and an appreciation for format and content, to better prepare students for project documentation.
Waite, Bob. University of St. Thomas (2002). Academic>Courses>TC>Technical Writing
#14904
Technical Communications Online
The course emphasizes practical knowledge of technical communications techniques, procedures, and reporting formats used in business and industry. Topics include methods of describing devices and processes, as well as the proper use of standards manuals, guides, specifications, and interpretations of data in report format.
Angelo, Caroline. Athens Technical College. Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#27356
In this class, students will learn how to edit technical documents, from proofreading for errors at the surface to ensuring that the document contains appropriate content, organization, and visuals for its audiences. Students will also learn how to use traditional editing marks, editing functions within word processors, and principles of layout and design. Finally, students will learn about the profession of editing and develop pieces to support their careers.
Eaton, Angela. Texas Tech University (2006). Academic>Courses>Technical Editing
#14568
This course will prepare you for the substantive editing and design of complex documents such as technical manuals, proposals, and research reports. You will study the practice of editing as it applies to invention, arrangement, style, and delivery. You will examine strategies for document management and explore the theoretical justifications for your editing decisions.
Dragga, Sam. Texas Tech University (2001). Academic>Courses>Technical Editing
#14124
Principles and practices of editing technical and scientific documents. Overview of the editing process; defining the editor's rules and responsibilities, revising at structural and sentence levels, and addressing stylistic conventions of technical fields. Application to technical and scientific documents such as reports, proposals, and user manuals. Students will learn to recognize and articulate specific problem areas in technical documents. Students will practice identifying and discussing differences between strong and weak technical documents. Students will revise technical documents at macro- and micro- levels of editing. Students will gain strategies for communicating effective and constructive criticism.
Grossenbacher, Laura. University of Wisconsin. Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Editing
#20100
Drafting, rendering, and photographic techniques used in the development of illustrations for advertisements, technical manuals, and other publications.
Eastern Washington University. Academic>Courses>Technical Illustration
#23737
English 5373 covers the management and production of forms of print and online manuals, including software and hardware manuals, instructions, and performance support. Students will learn how to manage projects, and how to address issues of user analysis, text design, graphics design, task orientation, and translation. Class activities will include exercises and presentations focused on student project work.
Barker, Thomas. Texas Tech University (2003). Academic>Courses>Documentation>Technical Writing
#26018
This course will help those employed within technical fields (scientists, engineers, medical professionals, etc.), as well as those who address technical audiences, to effectively plan, research, write, and present technical information.
Van Valkenburgh, Nicole. Brigham Young University. Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#23529
This course provides an introduction to technical writing, which includes technical reports, instructions, proposals, letters of application, resumes, procedures, and manuals; this course is particularly appropriate for students in English, information resources, science, engineering, architecture, education, and other applied sciences, although it is open to students from any major.
Clark, Dave. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#23533
The first part of the course will help you acquire reading and writing skills needed in graduate school. Consider these survival skills as well as a way to get a competitive edge. In class, we will focus on the reading and analysis (written and oral) of academic writings in Computer Science and closely related fields. Most weeks you will be expected to read a journal or other technical article and report on it. You may be asked to make a short oral presentation to the class.
Kaczmarczyk, Lisa C. University of Texas (2004). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#23317
English 421 helps students become better professional communicators through contextual research and analysis. The curriculum is informed by current research in rhetoric and professional writing and is guided by the needs and practices of business, the high-tech industry, and society at large.
Karper, Erin. Purdue University. Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#21971
This web site contains information about Chris Werry's section of RWS 503W Technical Writing. You'll find the syllabus, course description, on-line readings, assignments, and other course materials here.
Werry, Chris. San Diego State University. Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#20711
A brief overview of the field of technical writing, including techniques and strategies of effective writing, and of conventions used in documents such as letters, memos, proposals, abstracts and reports. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
