In this Honors course you will augment your technical communication skills by creating professional documents like resumes, cover letters, and proposals with the aim of succeeding in your chosen fields. We will produce print and electronic texts.

To contextualize our work, we will also examine scholarly and popular articles and videos within the video game industry with a particular focus on the style, audience, and ethical implications of each text.

Course Objectives
To learn about the various types and purposes of professional documentation.
To create more effective documents by following minimalist writing principles: knowing your audience and removing nonessential content.
To learn about the successful and iterative creation of professional projects via a proposal and presentation process.

To successfully work and communicate within a small project team.
To learn how to apply the above objectives to your chosen field or career.

This Topics course will focus on the theory behind and application of narrative in technical communication. Students will examine examples of textual and visual storytelling with an eye toward whether and how these works effectively communicate their messages.

Course Objectives

To learn more about the history of narrative in a technical communication context.

To critique uses of visual and textual storytelling in scientific and technical communication.

To explore and apply research methodologies for analyzing narrative content in technical communication works.

To examine tools used in the creation of narrative-driven technical communication projects.

To create effective documents by telling a visual or textual story where appropriate.