#20559
ENGL 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, as well as by the expectations of Purdue students and programs. Students learn effective strategies for communicating with other people about and with technology, particularly in networked workplaces and through usability testing. They learn how to collaborate with colleagues in project teams as they analyze writing situations and respond to them with informative and visually effective print and electronic documents. The course teaches the rhetorical principles that help students shape their technical writing to suit a range of readers, for multiple purposes, in a variety of professional situations.
Clark, Tracy. Purdue University (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#19651
Technical Writing introduces students to the world of technical and professional communication. The focus of this course is upon writing that you might use on-the-job.
University of Colorado. Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#19592
503W is designed to help upper-level students develop the communication skills needed for successful professional careers. The course provides the opportunity to write in the variety of forms you are likely to encounter in your professional lives (that is, memos, manuals, proposals, etc.).
Bekins, Linn. San Diego State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#15011
Course goals: to prepare you to communicate effectively, ethically, responsibly, and professionally in a business environment; to provide you with skills, strategies, and conceptual knowledge to help you address a variety of communication tasks; to help you understand the symbiotic relationships among form and content, and audience and purpose; and to give you practice in collaborating with other professionals in managing and completing group projects, and to improve your own individual communication and management skills.
Tovey, Janice. East Carolina University (2002). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Technical Writing
#14906
English 2309, Technical Writing, will introduce you to some of the types of documents that you will be likely to write in your careers. We will study audience-centered writing and writing as a series of recursive steps through which a writer moves in preparing a final draft. The students in this section will participate in the Texas Tech University Computer-Based Research Project by meeting class in the Macintosh Computer Classroom located in the English building (324A). The course will be VAX-based, but students do not need any prior knowledge of computers or computer skills. Because the course is computer-based, students will have to find time outside of class to work on a computer.
Hanson, Amy. Texas Tech University (1997). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#14899
ENGL 202C, Technical Writing, serves students who are preparing for careers in the sciences and applied sciences (particularly engineering). This advanced course in writing familiarizes students with the discourse practices prized in their disciplinary and institutional communities—and helps them to manage those practices effectively in their own written work. In this way the course teaches those writing strategies and tactics that scientists and engineers will need in order to write successfully on the job.
Jones, Billie J. Pennsylvania State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#14851
This course offers an overview of the field of technical communication and provides practice in the composition of traditional technical writing forms, especially letters and memorandums, interim reports, feasibility studies and formal proposals.
University of Massachusetts (2001). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#30999
We offer you Level 1 and Level 2 courses in technical writing, plus a workshop on writing system requirement specifications. We're constantly updating and restructuring our content. We also welcome your active participation in building and improving this learning community.
#22348
In this course, students will master two important aspects of technical communication: its genres and its process. Students will learn and apply several primary genres of technical communication, including the résumé and cover letter, the memo, the proposal, the abstract, the progress report, and the empirical report. Students will use these genres to document their research progress and results. Students will also learn and use the technical writing process.
Ratliff, Clancy. University of Minnesota (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Technical Writing
#23618
Among the many effects of computer technology are dramatic changes in the ways we produce and disseminate written texts. These changes affect everyday uses of writing, in the classroom and the workplace, as well as the professions that focus on written language—print journalism, technical communication, and other areas of publishing and the media. New technologies affect the ways we read and permit new ways of manipulating and linking the written word.
Miller, Carolyn R. North Carolina State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#15041
Technology and Professional Workgroups
Through both theory and practice, we will explore various computer technologies used to support professional communication within groups. In the first part of the course, we will study major theories of group interaction and computer-mediated communication to gain critical faculties for examining the use of technology by professional workgroups. In the second part, we will use these theories to investigate specific technologies, such as email, Lotus Notes, NetMeeting, and other groupware applications used in various professional contexts. You will leave this course with not only a working familiarity with such technologies, but also a theoretical framework for critiquing their use in future workplace settings.
Honeycutt, Lee. Iowa State University (2000). Academic>Courses>TC>Collaboration
#25988
Technology for Professional Writers
This course is a variation of Utah State University's twice-annual Technology and the Writer Course. The Technology and the Writer course is based on research done in the 1990s to determine which writing professions demanded the best salaries and were most likely to survive overseas outsourcing.
Hailey, David E. Utah State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Technology>Technical Writing
#25677
Technology, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
This course offers students in various disciplines a critical view of the technologies now shaping workplace communication and our society as a whole. Using rhetorical theories of technology, we will examine the historical roots of communication technology and explore a number of economic and ethical issues spawned by the computer revolution. Students will gain a deep understanding of how technology impacts the decisions of technical communicators in an increasingly electronic workplace.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Technology>Rhetoric
#18178
Teknisk Kommunikation Och Modellering
Det caddade föremålet skall bestå av minst tre delar, components. Vid framställningen av delarna skall både extrude och revolve ha använts. Hål, rundning eller fasning skall ingå.
Holcke, Jan. tekom (2002). (Swedish) Academic>Courses>Information Design
#14571
Theoretical Approaches to Technical Communication: Ethics
This course will teach students to: * investigate various definitions and philosophies of ethics pertinent to the field of technical communication. * examine the nature and scope of ethical dilemmas in technical communication. * determine possible solutions to the ethical problems encountered by technical communicators. * explain the applicability of theories of ethics to the field of technical communication.
Dragga, Sam. Texas Tech University (2000). Academic>Courses>Graduate
#13906
Theoretical Dimensions of Technical Communication
This graduate course studies theoretical constructs and issues that inform all technical communication. Inherently a multi-disciplinary activity, tech comm draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics. This term we will focus specifically on rhetoric, on the relationships between author, text and reader, and on philosophies of science and language. The purpose of this seminar is to explore relevant theories in sufficient depth and detail to do justice to their complexity, and, at the same time to examine their applicability to technical communication. Students will be expected to comprehend and challenge these theories on their own terms as well as to understand their value for the interpretation and transfer of technical information. Such understanding is crucial to intelligent decisions in professional practice; it allows the technical communicator to look beyond surface issues and see the essential problems and possible solutions. Theoretical knowledge of the field distinguishes the professional from the practitioner.
Sauer, Geoffrey. University of Washington-Seattle (2002). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Rhetoric
#24288
Theory and Practice of Technical Communication
During the course students examine more thoroughly the content areas of TC introduced on the Introduction course running paralelly. The work will include workshops, study circles both face-to-face and in the course web environment. The study will be documented and evaluated through a digital portfolio, which includes a personal coourse log, samples and summaries of the work done during the course and reflections upon them (one portfolio to cover all the courses on TC).
#14049
Theory and Practice of Technical Communication
The aim, or purpose, of this course is to prepare you for a variety of job-related writing tasks. Success in technical writing, however, requires that you first know for whom you are writing and why. Consequently, this course will stress audience awareness and purpose in written communication. The course will also help you select the appropriate materials for a writing assignment and arrange the material in a logical and appropriate sequence. Additionally, you will learn to evaluate your products (and those of others) before submitting them for approval. In other words, you will develop your writing processes, much as you are developing other problem-solving tools necessary for success in your career. You will learn to anticipate the needs of your audience, to select materials and their arrangement to best meet those needs, to prepare the final product, and to analyze and revise until you achieve professional-quality work ready for submission to your audience.
Applen, J.D. University of Central Florida. Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
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Theory and Research in Professional Communication
This graduate course will study theoretical constructs and issues that inform workplace professional communication. Inherently a multi-disciplinary activity, professional comm-unication draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics. This term we will focus specifically on rhetoric, on the relationships between author, text and reader, and on philosophies of science and language as they apply to workplace practice.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Rhetoric
#31972
PHP is a high level, dynamic, interpreted scripting language. It augments raw HTML by allowing significant interactivity and increased functionality. It has become popular in recent years as it is easy to begin working with and supported by a good majority of web hosting companies.
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Topics in Journalism: Community and Public/Civic Journalism 
Community journalism is usually defined as journalism by papers--usually weeklies--with circulations of under 50,000 that focus on service to their particular communities. Public or civic journalism is usually defined as journalism that strives to provide readers with what they need to be responsible citizens. As Jock Lauterer makes clear in chapter 19 of Community Journalism, there is a strong overlap between these two types of journalism. In this course, we will explore and examine the relationships between these two types of journalism through reading, discussion, and practice.
Waddell, Craig. Michigan Tech University (2002). Academic>Courses>Journalism>Community
#18158
University Courses in Usbility
Check the web sites for the details of each course, as they may change each term or year.
#19530
Usability Studies and Human Factors
This course focuses on two interrelated subjects of importance to the field of professional communication: human factors and structured user research. Class readings, discussions, and projects will provide you with opportunities to build on your existing knowledge about professional communication and how knowledge about human factors and user research can enhance your work. We will examine strategies for user interfaces in a variety of contexts, including both online and print publications.
Zachry, Mark. Utah State University (2003). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Usability
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This course focuses on articulating rhetorical opportunities present in the visual turn; the role of perceptual processes, time, movement, and memory in the act of seeing; the interanimation of the verbal and the visual in representation; the circumstances of visual culture and art; visual communication in print and on the Web; and identification as a visual/rhetorical process. Is there potential to create critical verbo-visual literacy? The course explores what such definitions of literacy mean for communication, argumentation, persuasion and narration.
Salvo, Michael J. Purdue University (2004). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Visual Rhetoric
#19197
Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age 
This course participates in constructing visual rhetoric for composition studies and computers and composition studies. There are few models for the graduate study of visual rhetoric, and certainly there are not canonical issues or figures in this area. Instead there is the growing realizing that written discourse increasingly involves visual dimensions that are influenced (and sometime controlled) by the composer(s). Nowhere is this understanding more concretely rendered than in areas that depend on technology. In a real sense, technology has pushed us to see visual dimensions of meaning as falling under our influence. Of course, that influence can only be exercised via know-how.
Sullivan, Patricia. Purdue University. Academic>Courses>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric
