Finally, students may make a technical presentation to the class on a topic of their own choosing. This course prepares students for interactions with prospective consumers of technical writing, with technical experts, and with audiences. Students practice and workshop with each other on meeting the needs of all three groups. Participants learn to listen and ask questions so as to correctly interpret the needs of business and industry customers, to present technical information in an engaging and clear wary, and to translate technical talk into comprehensible, everyday language. The marketplace is lean and mean, and companies cannot afford proposals that fail.
Students learn the importance of effective proposal writing in the business.
They learn what every proposal must have. They acquire writing skills that demonstrate their understanding of the sales tone in proposals. Hands-on exercises guide them in writing resumes, project descriptions, and persuasive arguments, turning narrative into graphics, and judging whether a proposal responds to client expectations. An overview of online documentation concepts on Adobe Acrobat 4.0 application for Macintosh. Basic computer experience is a prerequisite for the course.