Technical Communication Course Descriptions

Instructor: Laura L Ellis-Lai

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Laura L Ellis-Lai

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Laura L Ellis-Lai

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Laura L Ellis-Lai

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Christopher K Margrave

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Christopher K Margrave

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Octavio Pimentel

Description: The objective of this course is to instruct a varied cohort of students in the principles of technical writing. This course aims to cultivate the competencies required for the independent creation of scientific and technical documents. Participants will be introduced to essential rhetorical strategies and writing techniques that are crucial for producing effective reports, instructional materials, and other professional documents. The curriculum will focus on enhancing literacies that are vital for addressing intricate workplace challenges, initiating and executing communication projects, and critically evaluating and improving outdated, or ineffective communication methods and materials.

Texts: Markel, Mike and Stuart A. Selber. Technical Communication 13th edition Bedford/St. Martin’s Press: New York, 2020.

Contact: op11@txstate.edu

Instructor: Sean Rose

Description: A writing-intensive lecture course, English 3303 covers the practice of writing in a technical field and workplace. We’ll emphasize precise and concise writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, and other forms of technical communication for a variety of diverse readers.

This is an asynchronous, online course, but will be just as involved as an in-person course. Hard deadlines still exist in the asynchronous format.

Texts: Textbook: Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Fourth Edition, by Mike Markel; Microsoft Word

Contact: sgr24@txstate.edu

Instructor: Sean Rose

Description: A writing-intensive lecture course, English 3303 covers the practice of writing in a technical field and workplace. We’ll emphasize precise and concise writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, and other forms of technical communication for a variety of diverse readers.

This is an asynchronous, online course, but will be just as involved as an in-person course. Hard deadlines still exist in the asynchronous format.

Texts: Textbook: Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Fourth Edition, by Mike Markel; Microsoft Word

Contact: sgr24@txstate.edu

Instructor: Sean Rose

Description: A writing-intensive lecture course, English 3303 covers the practice of writing in a technical field and workplace. We’ll emphasize precise and concise writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, and other forms of technical communication for a variety of diverse readers.

This is an asynchronous, online course, but will be just as involved as an in-person course. Hard deadlines still exist in the asynchronous format.

Texts: Textbook: Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Fourth Edition, by Mike Markel; Microsoft Word

Contact: sgr24@txstate.edu

Instructor: Edward Alan Schaefer

Description: English 3303 is an advanced writing course designed specifically to study the special demands of technical writing in your future profession. Students will learn to produce concise, precise, and useful technical writing and communication in a variety of genres, including job application materials, instructions, definitions, workplace memos, and notes on ethical concerns in various professional fields.

Texts: A Concise Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves & Roger Graves, Broadview Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 978-1554815487

Contact: es46@txstate.edu

Instructor: Edward Alan Schaefer

Description: English 3303 is an advanced writing course designed specifically to study the special demands of technical writing in your future profession. Students will learn to produce concise, precise, and useful technical writing and communication in a variety of genres, including job application materials, instructions, definitions, workplace memos, and notes on ethical concerns in various professional fields.

Texts: A Concise Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves & Roger Graves, Broadview Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 978-1554815487

Contact: es46@txstate.edu

Instructor: Edward Alan Schaefer

Description: English 3303 is an advanced writing course designed specifically to study the special demands of technical writing in your future profession. Students will learn to produce concise, precise, and useful technical writing and communication in a variety of genres, including job application materials, instructions, definitions, workplace memos, and notes on ethical concerns in various professional fields.

Texts: A Concise Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves & Roger Graves, Broadview Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 978-1554815487

Contact: es46@txstate.edu

Instructor: Amanda Scott

Description: This is an advanced course designed specifically to study the special demands of technical writing. The course will emphasize and help you develop the skills necessary to solve complex workplace problems, initiate and complete communication projects, and even challenge and revise outdated or ineffective communication processes and documents. As you work through course projects, you will also gain experience collaborating with others on writing, revising, and editing their work to meet professional standards. Most importantly, you will consider the ways in which accepted communication practices might be made more ethical and inclusive.

Contact: aes126@txstate.edu

Instructor: Miriam F Williams

Instructor: Sarah K. Robblee

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Texts: Technical Communication Today, 6th edition. Johnson-Sheehan, R. ISBN: 9780134433479. Publisher: Pearson Lifetime eBooks. Format: BryteWave Format.

Contact: fad33@txstate.edu

Instructor: Sarah K. Robblee

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Texts: Technical Communication Today, 6th edition. Johnson-Sheehan, R. ISBN: 9780134433479. Publisher: Pearson Lifetime eBooks. Format: BryteWave Format.

Contact: fad33@txstate.edu

Instructor: Sarah K. Robblee

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Texts: Technical Communication Today, 6th edition. Johnson-Sheehan, R. ISBN: 9780134433479. Publisher: Pearson Lifetime eBooks. Format: BryteWave Format.

Contact: fad33@txstate.edu

Instructor: Pinfan Zhu

Description: Eng 3303 Technical Writing is a hybrid course that is taught both online and face-to-face. We will meet only six times face-to-face; other times, it is online. The six meetings are mainly for writing practice and critiques. Online learning includes writing skills and theories. The course prepares students for workplace writings. Specific genres include: instructions, proposals, memos, reports, job letters and résumés, Web design, use of graphics, and document design. Students also learn how to analyze audiences and use rhetorical strategies to target them. Communicating with cross-cultural audiences is also one of the focuses. Other skills students will learn in the course are skills used throughout the writing process from invention to editing and research skills. The course is writing intensive but also teaches students oral presentation skills and some application software skills. Students have to participate in group discussion, web board response, online research, and in-class exercises.

Major assessments include a report, proposal, memo, business letters, short reports, critiques, a presentation, user guide, final exam, homework, and three quizzes.

Texts: Practical Strategies for Technical Communication 4th ed. by Mike Markel and online supplementary materials.

Contact: pz10@txstate.edu

Instructor: Pinfan Zhu

Description: Eng 3303 Technical Writing is a hybrid course that is taught both online and face-to-face. We will meet only six times face-to-face; other times, it is online. The six meetings are mainly for writing practice and critiques. Online learning includes writing skills and theories. The course prepares students for workplace writings. Specific genres include: instructions, proposals, memos, reports, job letters and résumés, Web design, use of graphics, and document design. Students also learn how to analyze audiences and use rhetorical strategies to target them. Communicating with cross-cultural audiences is also one of the focuses. Other skills students will learn in the course are skills used throughout the writing process from invention to editing and research skills. The course is writing intensive but also teaches students oral presentation skills and some application software skills. Students have to participate in group discussion, web board response, online research, and in-class exercises.

Major assessments include a report, proposal, memo, business letters, short reports, critiques, a presentation, user guide, final exam, homework, and three quizzes.

Texts: Practical Strategies for Technical Communication 4th ed. by Mike Markel and online supplementary materials.

Contact: pz10@txstate.edu

Instructor: Deborah Ann Balzhiser

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Deborah Ann Balzhiser

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Amanda Elizabeth Scott

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Vanessa Anne Couto Johnson

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Vanessa Anne Couto Johnson

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Shannon Suzanne Shaw

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Shannon Suzanne Shaw

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Instructor: Unassigned Faculty

Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.