Course Title:
Genres of Technical and Scientific Communication
Course Description:
Serves as a foundational course for students to learn to work within established genres of technical and scientific writing and to develop a critical awareness of how generic conventions emerge in cultural contexts and, in turn, serve to shape the form and content of communication. Focusing on the genres that have been central to the discipline (memos, descriptions, definitions, instructions, reports, proposals, and literature reviews), explores document design and document organization as generic issues. Addresses the relationships between technical writing and cultural context, ethical issues in technical writing, and the changing identity of the field of technical communication by drawing on rhetorical theory approaches to genre. Library research is also addressed in this course.
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