ENG 504 - Advanced Technical Writing

Description:
Practice in designing, writing, and creating technical documents and practice in content management systems and/or structured authoring tools. ENG 404 and ENG 504 are layered courses; a student may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: admission to the Professional and Creative Writing MA program or instructor permission.

Credits:
(5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Recognize and demonstrate how genres function in the technical writing workplace.
Analyze a new technical writing task and construct new genres to meet the needs of that task.
Graduate Students will synthesize research involving genre theory in professional communication scholarship.
Identify and recognize the basic elements, function and purpose of structured authoring in the technical writing workplace.
Graduate students will assess one or more structured authoring tools or methods as appropriate to the technical writing workplace.
Describe and Summarize the features and functions of a content management system in the technical writing workplace.
Apply knowledge of content managements systems OR structured authoring tools for a technical writing project.
Analyze the cultural and ethical considerations involved in technical communication
Graduate Students will argue for the most ethical course of action given particular ethical case studies involved in technical communication.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
10/3/19

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Winter Locations Ellensburg, Online