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Document Engineering and Information Architecture
This course introduces the discipline of Document Engineering: specifying, designing, and deploying electronic documents and information repositories that enable document-centric or information-intensive applications. These applications include web services, information supply chains, single-source publishing, composite applications/virtual enterprises/portals, and so on. Course topics include developing requirements, analyzing existing documents and information sources, conceptual modeling, identifying reusable semantic components, modeling business processes and user interactions, applying patterns to make models more robust, representing models using XML schemas, and using XML models to implement and drive applications. The syllabus contains over 20 short case study examples from different industries, with special emphasis on business-to-business, healthcare and medical informatics, and e-government.
Glushko, Robert J. University of California Berkeley (2008). Academic>Courses>Document Design>Information Design
#18152
In this course, you will become familiar with the responsibilities of a technical editor. We will spend much of the semester practicing editing skills but will also consider the job of the editor, including the relationship of editor and writer and the organizational aspects of being an editor. These aspects include organizational style guides, forms of technical editing in different industries, the role of the technical writer and editor in organizational culture, and technology and its impacts on editing and style.
Pringle, Mary Margaret. University of Minnesota (2001). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#22470
Electronic Documents and Publications
English 413 presents principles of Web-based document design, creation, layout, editing, and posting to the Internet and on corporate intranets.
Jablonski, Jeffrey. UNLV. Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#28953
English 3301: Principles of Professional and Report Writing 
The main objective of this class is to help you gain the skills needed to think through writing tasks, analyze the audience(s) involved, secure various types of resources, generate documents, and present those documents in an effective manner.
Garza, Susan Loudermilk. Texas A and M University (2007). Academic>Courses>Writing>Reports
#21540
This course is designed for undergraduates and graduates interested in the professional writing and publishing of both print based and electronic documents. Through a variety of projects, we will cover advanced theories of document design, web-based publishing, educational media, information delivery, and multimedia production. The course is designed so that students will have opportunities to work on both electronic and print based projects.
Bay, Jennifer. Purdue University (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Business Communication
#28954
English 5369 Topics and Genres in Rhetoric and Composition: Visual Rhetoric2007
This interdisciplinary course focuses on studying and researching the role of rhetoric in the development of visual elements in texts. Students will be asked to both analyze and design visual texts, to analyze and critique ways in which visual rhetoric is defined, and to conduct primary research on an element of visual rhetoric.
Garza, Susan Loudermilk. Texas A and M University (2007). Academic>Courses>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric
#26503
EPD 397: Technical Communication
Communication for engineering, science, and technology; theory and practice in planning, preparing, and critiquing reports, proposals, instructions, and business correspondence; research strategies, collaborative work; oral presentations.
University of Wisconsin (2005). Academic>Courses>TC>Wisconsin
#18472
Because the role of the modern technical writer and communicator is expanding rapidly and will continue to do so, the ethical scope of the technical writer's responsibility is comparably expanded too. The technical writer is now seen as an information developer in the formative stages of creating technical information, as a communicator in disseminating information, as an interpreter in explaining information, and as a usability expert in guiding the application of information. As a result, ethics becomes in involved in technical writing in many ways both traditional and new, obvious and non-obvious. In this course we will study the role of ethics in technical writing and communication at various levels. Ethics is the study of what is right and good, whether as abstract theories or as concrete actions, usually involving deciding a course of action in a dilemma offering several possibilities. Ethics here is understood broadly as encompassing both conventional theories of ethics and values and value systems.
Dombrowski, Paul M. SUNY Institute of Technology (2002). Academic>Courses>Ethics>Technical Writing
#10045
This course introduces visual thinking, visual expression, and the practice of graphic design. First, it teaches general princples of graphic design. Then it teaches about the components of graphic design: typography, page and screen design, picture and symbols, and corporate identity.
Carliner, Saul. Bentley College (2000). Academic>Courses>Graphic Design
#23531
In this course we'll be talking about and working on the architecture of 'information spaces.' An 'information space' could be a virtual space like a Web site or a database, or it could be a library, a town hall, a workplace, etc. Basically, it's any place that is designed to help people interact with information, and our goal will be learning about better, more sophisticated ways of helping people interact effectively.
Clark, Dave. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2003). Academic>Courses>Information Design>Wisconsin
#11921
This graduate course was taught in the Spring 2001 term in the MS program at the University of Washington. The students published four anthologies of papers resulting from their study of information architecture.
Sauer, Geoffrey. University of Washington-Seattle (2001). Academic>Courses>Graduate
#10004
This graduate course was taught in the Winter 2001 term in the evening MS program at the University of Washington. The students published five anthologies of papers resulting from their study of information architecture.
Sauer, Geoffrey. University of Washington-Seattle (2001). Academic>Courses>Graduate
#14847
Information Design and Usability Testing
This online course packet, along with the texts and lectures, should provide all the information you need for completing RHE 379C/TLC 331. It includes conventional information, such as a syllabus and course schedule, as well as links to articles and examples. See the navigation bar for more information.
Spinuzzi, Clay. University of Texas (2002). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#31063
Knowledge analysis and representation; information presentation and assimilation; bibliographic and record control.
Soergel, Dagobert. University of Maryland. Academic>Courses>Information Design
#22978
Inquiry into Advanced Academic Writing
This course is designed to meet two objectives. First, it offers an opportunity for students to conduct a collective inquiry into the theory and practice of academic writing. Second, it allows students to practise, explore, and experiment with various strategies for enriching their own writing.
Artemeva, Natasha. Carleton University (2002). Academic>Courses>Writing
#20994
This course explore issues in relation to different expressions of interface design: software interfaces, web interfaces, and physical products. We will also spend a good deal of time exploring usability principles and concepts on which we can base our expressions.
Danzico, Liz. Bobulate (2003). Academic>Courses>User Interface
#14006
Introducción a la Escritura Técnica y Científica
Este curso presenta algunas estrategias generales básicas para la redacción de informes técnicos, tesis, comunicaciones a conferencias y artículos en revistas científicas. El curso está destinado a investigadores en ciencias básicas y aplicadas, estudiantes en las mismas áreas, e ingenieros y otros profesionales de orientación técnica.
Braslavsky, Julio H. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. (Spanish) Academic>Courses>Scientific Communication>Technical Writing
#15013
Introduction to Editing and Abstracting
Course goals: to prepare you to communicate effectively, ethically, responsibly, and professionally in a professional environment; to provide you with skills, strategies, and conceptual knowledge to help you understand aspects of editing and abstracting; to help you understand the symbiotic relationships among form and content, and audience and purpose; and to give you practice expressing writing and editing your own work as well as peers' and to improve your own individual communication and management skills.
Tovey, Janice. East Carolina University (2003). Academic>Courses>Editing
#21036
Introduction to Professional Writing
This course is designed to be an introduction to professional/technical communication as a profession and academic discipline. We will examine current issues, theories and practices, career opportunities, professional development, significant tools, and UNI's curriculum.
Williamson, William J. University of Northern Iowa (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Business Communication
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Introduction to Technical Communication
English 2309-Technical Communication-is an introductory course to the kinds of documents produced and used in business, industry, and technology. The assignments and the way they are evaluated reflect different audiences and purposes than those normally addressed in English 1301 & 1302. However, you should be reasonably proficient in the writing skills normally acquired in these two courses. We are a community of writers from various disciplines sharing our work and insights about writing with one another. This course is designed to create an environment in which you can develop and exhibit professional work habits. These habits include meeting deadlines, satisfying all assignment criteria, and attending class on a regular basis.
Chandler, John and Dean Fontenot. Texas Tech University (1995). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
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Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health
Over the course of the semester we will explore the full range of writings by physicians and other health practitioners. Some of the writer/physicians that we encounter will be Atul Gawande, Danielle Ofri, Richard Selzer, and William Carlos Williams. Students need have no special training, only a general interest in medicine or in public health issues such as AIDS, asthma, malaria control, and obesity. The writing assignments, like the readings, will invite students to consider the distinctive needs of different audiences.
Taft, Cynthia. MIT (2007). Academic>Courses>TC>Biomedical
#20377
Introduction to Technical Writing
Technical Writing is not a grammar class but an applied writing course in which you will learn to: write clearly, concisely, and accurately for intended readers; apply good writing skills to technical documents; write various technical documents common in business and industry; write as a member of a team; and use word processing, electronic mail, and graphics software applications on a personal computer.
Lippincott, Gail. University of North Texas (2003). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate>Technical Writing
#14849
Introduction to Technology, Learning, and Culture
This class is an interdisciplinary course that examines some of the shared principles and approaches of the disciplines that make up the liberal arts. In this course we will explore the ways that changes in the technologies of communication and human interaction are transforming the environments for teaching and learning, and for the culture in general.
Spinuzzi, Clay. University of Texas (2000). Academic>Courses>Undergraduate
#30792
This course will provide an introductory level approach to professional web authoring. It is ideal for folks with little to no background in CSS, XHTML, Photoshop, iMovie, PHP, Database, TCP/Server experience, and other essential web authoring technologies. We will approach these technologies from both a production and a publication perspective.
Ridolfo, Jim. Michigan State University (2008). Academic>Courses>Web Design
#25563
This course is designed with several goals in mind: to analyze web sites & understand effective web design principles; to understand information architecture & its importance in relation to web sites; and to use those principles to design web sites—one of your choosing & one for a client.
Ball, Cheryl E. Michigan Tech University (2001). Academic>Courses>Web Design
