ENGL 304 - Introduction to Technical and Professional Writing

Units: 4
Overview of technical, professional, and workplace writing. Emphasis on finding and evaluating information, creating well-crafted, user-oriented documents, and using suitable applications to make information available in appropriate formats. Ethics of technical writing and writing in a multicultural context.

Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGL 3025.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

critically analyze audience, purpose, and structure of technical, professional, and workplace writing texts;
locate and evaluate information for creating technical, professional, and workplace writing texts;
produce well-crafted, user-oriented documents;
become familiar with suitable applications to make information available in appropriate formats;
think critically about the ethics of technical writing and writing in a diverse contexts.