ENGL 1104 - Technical Writing

1. Master a reliable, effective writing process.
   • that includes discovering, planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
   • that clearly and logically supports a central argument, assertion, objective, or goal.
2. Participate effectively in group discussions, group analyses, and collaborative writing projects.
3. Analyze a writing situation and respond to it with writing appropriate and effective in terms of its audience and purpose.
4. Grow in confidence and skill in reproducing and presenting technical and professional documents.
5. Employ language appropriate to professional and technical contexts.
6. Use grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics correctly.
7. Use various information-gathering techniques (including library research, electronic sources, interviews, technical experience and/or observation) to obtain evidence which they can then use to support their assertions in their technical and professional documents.

1. Analysis of and instruction in the writing process in professional and technical settings
2. Specific instruction in the form and process of reports and manuals such as progress and process reports, feasibility studies, instructions, procedures, and/or mechanism descriptions
3. Development of carefully focused, organized, and edited professional documents
4. Document design, including graphics and other elements of professional documents
5. Rhetorical strategies for persuasion and argument
6. Rhetorical analysis of professional writing situations and documents
7. Rhetorical analysis of selected readings as well as students’ own writing