Students design and develop their own module of online information. Although the course presents principles of authoring, it does not teach tools for authoring online information. This course is double-listed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students will be required to complete additional work that emphasizes theory and research over application. Thus they must demonstrate a higher level of learning than undergraduates.
Students develop a training curriculum based on an organizational needs assessment.
Students also develop and deliver an in-class instructional unit on technical topics of their choosing. These topics can be work-related or from the field of technical writing. Includes analysis of web pages and the uses of the world wide web for marketing purposes. Explores connections between rhetoric and writing, between a public act and a personal thinking process, by examining classical and contemporary accounts of rhetorical history and theory. Students apply theory to their own writing as they explore the relationship between writers, readers, and subjects and the range of options available to communicators.