Austin Community College
Fall 2008 - OPEN COURSES
Course Descriptions All Courses Classroom Courses Distance Learning Courses
Updated: 01/23/2009 13:28:20
BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
16 Week Session August 25 - December 14
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E+ [9/10] 22687 Lec 006 NRG 4209 M 12:00pm - 2:30pm OH Klau, Robert
E+ [6/10] 25703 Lec 001 NRG 4209 MW 4:15pm - 5:30pm OH Klau, Robert
E+ [6/10] 25711 Lec 013 NRG 4209 S 9:00am - 11:40am OH Barkley, Roy
E+ [7/10] 22686 Lec 004 NRG 4209 TTh 4:15pm - 5:30pm OH Williams, Joe
E+ [9/10] 22688 Lec 007 NRG 4209 W 12:00pm - 2:30pm OH Klau, Robert
8 Week Session October 20 - December 14
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [14/3] 25476 Lec 002 RGC 229 TTh 6:00pm - 8:50pm OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
ETWR 1391 Special Topics in English Technical and Business Writing
P [1/10] 25712 Lec 001 NRG 4225 TBA OH McMurrey, David
16 Week Session August 25 - December 14
ETWR 1372 Grammar/Style
E+ [13/6] 22824 OPC 001 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Crocker, Amanda
22824 - Internet access required. A. Crocker, 223.8124 (for info). For MANDATORY
orientation information: email mandacrocker@gmail.com the 1st class week.
ETWR 1373 Government and Business Correspondence
E+ [13/10] 22825 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McNeely, Sarah
22825 - Internet access required. S. McNeely, 223.1790 x26303. For MANDATORY online
orientation: email smcneely@austincc.edu during the 1st class week
ETWR 1374 Graphics for Business, Government and Technical Information
E+ [12/9] 22827 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Mogull, Scott
22827 - Internet access required. S. Mogull, 223.1790 x25099. For MANDATORY orientation
information: email smogull@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E+ [15/9] 22684 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Butler, Wayne
22684 - Internet access required. W. Butler, 223.1790 x25690. For MANDATORY orientation
information: email wbutler@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
E+ [15/6] 22685 OPC 003 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Butler, Wayne
22685 - Internet access required. W. Butler, 223.1790 x25690. For MANDATORY orientation
information: email wbutler@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
ETWR 2374 Online Helps and Help-Authoring Tools
E+ [15/5] 22830 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
22830 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
ETWR 2379 Editing Government, Business and Technical Information
E+ [18/8] 22832 OPC 002 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
22832 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
12 Week Session September 22 - December 14
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E+ [15/13] 25255 OPC 005 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
25255 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
E+ [15/13] 25799 OPC 008 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
25799 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
8 Week Session October 20 - December 14
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [14/7] 25475 OPC 001 PCM Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
25475 - Internet access required. A. Mejia-Dietche, 223.1790 x26219. For MANDATORY
orientation information: email amejiadi@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
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 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.
Student Project - Course topic, schedule, and requirements negotiated by individual instructor and student. Students engage in writing projects involving tutorials, user guides, and researched reports covering such areas as special techniques with FrameMaker, Word, Dreamweaver, RoboHelp, Author-IT; entry-level tutorials for mainstream software in demand by area employers; and research topics such as corporate implementation of usability review, inclusion of formal editing in the documentation process, and other such topics.
ENGL 2311 Technical and 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. This course does not satisfy the prerequisite requirement for Literature courses. Students planning to take Literature must take ENGL 1302 English Composition II or an equivalent as a prerequisite. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
ETWR 2364 Practicum (or Field Experience) -- English Technical and 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 Frame Maker
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.