Beginning with basic instruction sets, the assignments increase in difficulty, preparing the students to develop a user's guide as the major project for the class. The documentation process entails completing a thorough needs assessment, audience analysis, documentation plan, and documentation test. Thursday, 6-8 p.m. Designed to teach the basic concepts of C to students in the MTPW program. Topics covered include use of the vi editor, data types, assignment statements, looping, conditional statements, functions, arrays, structures, pointers, and operations. Topics include the definition of technical writing, audience analysis, organization, clarity, and definitional techniques.
Students edit and revise existing documentation.
This course integrates discussion and sound writing techniques with practice in writing original documentation. This course introduces students in the Technical Writing Training Program to computer hardware components and how they are organized into a computer system. The components include disks, magnetic tapes, printers, the CPU, and memory. The student will learn data representation, become acquainted with Assembly Language, and learn how a computer stores, addresses, and executes instructions. The explanations of files include records, fields, and indexed files.