Students will take on the role of professional technical communicators as they explore the purpose, audience, and genre conventions of technical documents across disciplines. Students will learn about the use of style, content organization, standard document formats, rhetoric, and ethics when preparing technical communications. Assignments may include writing effective correspondence, formal and informal reports, job application materials, and proposals.

Students will take on the role of professional technical communicators as they explore the purpose, audience, and genre conventions of technical documents across disciplines. Students will learn about the use of style, content organization, standard document formats, rhetoric, and ethics when preparing technical communications. Assignments may include writing effective correspondence, formal and informal reports, job application materials, and proposals.

This course covers communication and design theories for visual displays of technical information. Students will learn how various types of information can be displayed visually in ways that are informative, effective, and ethical. Students will both critically analyze and create informational graphics.

This course provides an in-depth understanding of prose style and provides specific strategies for analyzing your own and others' communications and for improving your own writing style. Students will analyze and discuss written correspondence (e-mail, letters, and memos), reports, proposals, instructions (for example, tutorials, manuals, and reference), and policies and procedures as well as various online genres, including websites, blogs, e-zines, online help, social media, and more.