There is ample opportunity to develop good communication skills and design techniques. The skills students develop in this course will help them become professional communicators in a variety of business and technical applications. The course fulfills the L requirement and is required for the Writing Certificate. Click on these links to go to a full description of the class and to my syllabus, schedule, and assignments for this course. This is a course where students prepare to become editors and information designers.
Students learn editing and principles of analysis of technical discourse.
Students not only learn to proofread and copyedit, they learn how comprehensive editors work with writers and production teams to publish texts of all kinds from start to finish. The course fulfills the L1 requirement and is an elective for the Writing Certificate. Click on these links to go to a full description of the class and to my syllabus, schedule, and assignments for this course. In this course, students participate in an internship through the Department of English. Students work in a business, government agency, or nonprofit group and report their activities to me.