Course Objectives from Various Technical Writing Courses
Course Objectives
* Analyze the communication situation fully and accurately: needs, audiences, and users.
* Gather, interpret, and document information logically, efficiently, and ethically.
* Develop professional work and teamwork habits.
* Design usable, clear, persuasive, accessible documents:
* Select the appropriate format for presenting information.
* Organize information using reader-based principles.
* Use graphics effectively.
* Develop an effective, clear writing style.
Course Objectives
• Discover and understand the discourse features that distinguish their disciplinary and institutional communities from others.
• Discover and specify the purpose(s) of their writing.
• Develop a range of writing processes appropriate to various writing tasks.
• Identify their readers and describe the characteristics of their readers in a way that forms a sound basis for deciding how to write to them.
• Invent the contents of their communications through research and reflection.
• Arrange material to raise and satisfy readers’ expectations, using both conventional and rhetorical patterns of organization.
• Reveal the organization of their communications by using forecasting and transitional statements, headings, and effective page design.
• Observe appropriate generic conventions and formats for letters, résumés, memoranda, and a variety of informal and formal reports.
• Design and use tables, graphs, and technical illustrations.
• Compose effective sentences.
• Evaluate their documents to be sure that the documents fulfill their purpose and to ensure that they can be revised if necessary.
• Collaborate effectively with their peers in a community of writers who provide feedback on each others’ work and occasionally write together.
• Write several specific kinds of documents that recur in technical and scientific communities.
• Employ computer technology effectively in the solution of communication problems.
• Communicate in an ethically responsible manner.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/english/comp/engl202c.html
The objectives of HU 333 are to teach students rhetorical, textual, and linguistic competencies appropriate for their professional careers. Therefore, by the course end, students must show rhetorical competence demonstrated by an ability to:
* analyze and address the rhetorical situation and appropriate audience,
* select and invent content appropriate for the reader and the rhetorical exigence,
* create a logical and explicit arrangement that fits readers, genre, and situation,
* write in an appropriate register for the audience and with the correct tone for the situation,
* employ sound principles of layout and design in creation of finished document pages, and
* include appropriate visual support.
Students should demonstrate textual and linguistic competence. Specifically, they should be able to:
* write coherent, unified, and complete paragraphs, and
* write grammatically correct, stylistically pleasing, and diverse sentences, free of punctuation and spelling errors.
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mfsweany/obj333.htm
General Objectives
1. To develop business writing ability by acquiring skills in objective or non-personal writing.
2. To develop these learned skills by practice and review of the written work of other students.
3. To strengthen your understanding of, and ability to apply, communications strategies.
4. To learn to organize and deliver communications according to the nature of the material and the identified audience need.
5. To gain knowledge of international and intercultural barriers to business communications.
6. To examine the issues of technology that impact business communications, including design strategies, on-line network resources, and presentations.
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/stanleyc/web2_130/OBE130/syllabus.htm
In this course, students will:
* demonstrate knowledge of and familiarity with the nature of technical writing and the qualities of technical style;
* apply the principles of letter writing to various types of technical and business correspondence;
* demonstrate a knowledge of writing various types of short reports;
* gather, analyze, and organize needed data for writing a formal research report;
* write a formal research report on an identified and approved business-related topic;
* use graphics effectively in required business documents;
* integrate hyperlinks within required documents;
* interact collaboratively with other students to complete various course assignments;
* demonstrate an understanding of computer technology by using hardware and software to complete various course assignments.
http://wit.bowiestate.edu/djames/syll/obj.htm
English 3302 (Business and Technical Writing)
* Research, design, create and prepare informal and formal documents suitable for the workplace
* Balance visual and verbal elements of communication in documents and oral presentations
* Use current technology to search for and report information.
* Edit documents for correctness
* Respond usefully to others' writing
In this course, you’ll learn to do the following things:
* Analyze writing situations to understand your audiences and your purposes for writing
* Create documents that fulfill your purposes and your audiences’ needs
* Develop skills with technologies like email, computer graphics, and the web
* Hone your prose skills
* Design elegant document layouts
* Integrate graphic communication into your writing
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/miles.kimball/324syll.htm