This course will introduce students to the forms, functions, and rhetorical lives of technical documents. In this course will we examine and produce a variety of technical documents including employment documents, informal reports, usability reports, technical instructions, technical descriptions, and technical manuals. In the course of preparing these documents we will examine concepts such as how audiences affect these texts, document design principles, and the role of visuals or graphics in both written and oral texts. Descriptions of these topics and the written assignments are included in the course notes.
Attendance is mandatory at both weekly meetings .
The second class meeting of each week we will meet in the computer lab to work on assignments and to revise assignments. Attendance Students are expected to attend all regularly scheduled class meetings in both traditional classroom and computer lab settings. If students miss more than six class meetings, they will not receive a passing grade in the course. If you have a legitimate reason for missing class, make every attempt to notify me before missing that class and to document the reasons for missing that class. Students who are more than 15 minutes late for class will be counted as absent.