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Graduate Courses

The program offers a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses available for graduate credit in Technical Writing.

Graduate Courses

English 5013: Introduction to Graduate Studies (Technical Writing). Research methodology, abstracting, review of literature, statistical analysis, and rhetorical analysis. Sample Syllabus

English 5223: Teaching Business and Technical Writing. Classroom management, conferencing, technology in education, style, document design, visuals, audience analysis, and usability. Sample Syllabus

English 5503: Technical Document Production. To prepare for management positions, students learn skills in scheduling, budgeting, and managing people. Sample Syllabus

English 5513: Introduction to Technical Communication. Introduces students to technical communication as a discipline and field of study. Sample Syllabus

English 5520: Internship in Technical Writing. 200 hours on-site for a client on- or off-campus (designing, writing, and editing a variety of technical and scientific genres).

English 5523: New Genres and Usability. Theoretical and practical considerations in specialized writing projects that include manuals, proposals, and visual aids used to communicate technical information delivered in an online medium or as a combination of online and print documents.

English 5553: Information Design. An in-depth study of information design that provides a theoretical foundation for designing, developing, testing, and producing information products.

English 5563: History of Scientific Rhetoric. An in-depth analysis of what constitutes scientific discourse. This analysis involves rhetorical components such as style, the construction of an audience for new genres of scientific writing, historical disputes over what constitutes scientific evidence, and the creation of a scientific style.

English 5573: Theories of Communication. Theories of communication as applied to technical writing - e.g., system theory, symbolic interaction, sociolinguistics, and speech-act theory.
Sample Syllabus

English 5583: Environmental Writing. Analyzing rhetorical strategies of various types of environmental writing, including environmental impact statements, popular works on nature and the environment, and anti-environment groups.

English 5593: Styles and Editing. Study of style from the sentence level (including diction and grammatical arrangement) up to the levels of genres of technical communication. Sample Syllabus

English 6500: Studies in Technical Writing. In-depth analysis of research and practice in various topics, such as visuals, information design, and knowledge management.

Undergraduate Courses Available for Graduate Credit

English 4533: Advanced Technical Writing. Principles of software documentation, including task analysis, needs analysis, usability testing, online help systems, and manual design; basics of grant writing. Sample Syllabus

English 4543: Technical Editing. Technical and scientific copy editing: developing and applying style manuals, with attention to cultural, institutional, and situational norms underlying common goals and methods. (Strongly recommended for graduate students without previous coursework in technical communication.)

English 4553: Document Design. Basic principals of document design, including organization, layout, graphics, and page design, using electronic publishing tools. (Strongly recommended for graduate students without previous coursework in technical communication). Sample Syllabus

English 4563: History of Scientific and Technical Literature. Development of scientific and technical literature from ancient science through 20th-century discoveries, including the works of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Crick and Watson.