Austin Community College
Fall 2007 - CANCELLED COURSES
Course Descriptions All Courses Classroom Courses Distance Learning Courses
Updated: 12/18/2007 10:20:35
BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
16 Week Session August 27 - December 16
ETWR 1372 Grammar/Style
E+ [0/12] 07016 Lec 002 NRG 4207 TTh 4:05pm - 5:25pm Staff
ETWR 1373 Government and Business Correspondence
E+ [0/12] 07017 Lec 001 EVC 8301 M 5:40pm - 8:10pm Staff
ETWR 1378 Administrative Policy Writing
E+ [0/12] 09815 Lec 001 EVC 8345 W 5:20pm - 8:50pm Staff
ETWR 1391 Special Topics in English Technical and Business Writing
P [0/10] 09803 Lec 001 NRG 4225 TBA Staff
ENGL 2311 Technical & Business Writing
E+ [0/6] 06889 Lec 008 NRG 4209 MW 4:15pm - 5:30pm Staff
E+ [0/9] 05554 Lec 001 NRG 4209 S 9:00am - 11:40am Staff
8 Week Session October 22 - December 16
16 Week Session August 27 - December 16
ETWR 1378 Administrative Policy Writing
E+ [0/12] 09893 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus Staff
09893 - CANCELLED. Internet access required. A.Mejia-Dietche, 223.1795 x26219.
MANDATORY: email amejiadi@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
ETWR 2473 XHTML and CSS for Information Specialists
E+ [0/9] 07024 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus Staff
07024 - CANCELLED. Internet access required. J. Williams, 223.1795 x26066. MANDATORY:
email jwillia4@austincc.edu during 1st class week
12 Week Session September 24 - December 16
8 Week Session October 22 - December 16
ETWR 1372 Grammar/Style
A study of the principles of an effective professional or technical style, stressing clarity, exactness, and readability. Topics include a review of grammar and punctuation, an introduction to copy editing, and editing and revision skills. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
ETWR 1373 Government and Business Correspondence
A course focused on business correspondence delivered through common media (business letters, memos, e-mail, and reports), across organizational hierarchies (work associates at lower, same, and higher organizational levels), and based in typical situations (good news, bad news, policy and schedule changes, information requests, reprimands, rationales, denials, and other tricky business-communication situations). Emphasizes clear, tactful, succinct, direct, well-structured writing that gets the job done. Prerequisite: Basic computer familiarity and typing skills.
ETWR 1374 Graphics for Business, Government and Technical Information
Focusing on graphics commonly required of technical writers, this course begins with rhetorical principles relating to graphic design; challenges students to envision graphics for plain text; introduces software such as Photoshop for editing graphics; including techniques for importing and positioning graphics into desktop publishing software such as FrameMaker and Word; introduces editing existing hardware vector graphics; provides practice creating relatively simple graphics such as geometrical, conceptual, and flowchart-type graphics using applications such as CorelDraw, Illustrator, or AutoCAD; and provides a thorough introduction to scalable vector graphics (SVG). Prerequisite: Strong computer skills.
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
A study of two important forms of the proposal: the grant proposal and the new-business plan (also known as business "prospectus"). Students learn how to find grants, analyze their requirements, and then write a successful grant proposal. Students also plan a business startup, do funding and marketing research for it, and then write a business plan promoting the startup to potential investors. Prerequisite: Strong writing and computer skills.
ETWR 1378 Administrative Policy Writing
Study, critique, planning, writing, and revising of administrative rules, guidance documents, inspection reports, and policy-procedure documents commonly developed in government and business agencies; a survey of existing standards and guidelines for the preparation of these documents. Prerequisite: Strong writing skills; familiarity with or interest in government or business operations.
ETWR 1391 Special Topics in English Technical and Business Writing
Topics address recently identified current events, skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes and behaviors pertinent to the technology or occupation and relevant to the professional development of the student, including portfolio development. May be taken a second time for credit when topics vary.
ENGL 2311 Technical & Business Writing
Principles, techniques, and skills needed to conduct scientific, technical, or business writing. Instruction in the writing of reports, letters, and other exercises applicable to a wide range of disciplines and careers. Emphasis on clarity, conciseness, and accuracy of expression. Research techniques, information design, effective use of graphics, and preparation and presentation of oral reports will be covered. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
ETWR 2364 Practicum (or Field Experience) -- English Technical & Business Writing
Practical general training and experiences in the workplace. The college with the employer develops and documents an individualized plan for the student. The plan relates the workplace training and experiences to the student's general and technical course of study. The guided external experiences may be for pay or no pay. This course may be repeated if topics and learning outcomes vary.
ETWR 2374 Online Helps and Help-Authoring Tools
Workshop-style course in which students study the evolution and function of online helps; critique existing online helps; learn structuring principles and navigation tools common in online helps; create online helps using several leading online help-authoring tools such as RoboHELP and AuthorIT; and write their own online helps for a software product. Prerequisite: Strong computer and writing skills.
ETWR 2379 Editing Government, Business and Technical Information
Instruction and practice in proofreading, copyediting, and substantive editing skills necessary to ensure high-quality, readable, usable, well-designed documents in business, government, and industry. Gives students a working understanding of the role of the technical editor as collaborator and decision maker in the entire publication process. Topics include online editing, revising, hypertext, graphics, visual design, and project estimating. Prerequisite: Strong writing skills.
ETWR 2472 Book-Length Documents with Adobe FrameMaker
Workshop-style course in which students use Adobe FrameMaker to practice the structure and design of user documents; create fully "automated" book-length technical documents complete with automated tables of contents, indexes, table and figure numbers, and cross-references; and learn other FrameMaker features for rapid updating. Emphasis on teamwork and the project title in addition to organization, format, and style of printed technical documents. Prerequisite: Strong computer and writing skills.
ETWR 2473 XHTML and CSS for Information Specialists
Workshop-style course in which students study the concept of hypertext; learn structuring principles and navigation tools common in online information; create web pages using XHTML and CSS; get an introduction to web-page development tools such as Dreamweaver; and overview documentation trends such as structured authoring, single-sourcing, and XML. Prerequisite: Strong Internet, computer, and writing skills.