Austin Community College
Fall 2010 - ALL COURSES
Course Descriptions All Courses Classroom Courses Distance Learning Courses
Updated: 11/29/2011 14:20:46
BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
16 Week Session August 23 - December 12
ETWR 1391 Special Topics in English Technical and Business Writing
P [0/10] 19243 Lec 001 NRG 4225 TBA Staff
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [0/12] 16000 Lec 017 CYP 2124 MW 10:35am - 11:55am Staff
E [12/9] 17311 Lec 010 CYP 2232 W 7:05pm - 9:45pm OH Thomas, Falana
E [8/12] 17310 Lec 009 NRG 4209 F 9:00am - 11:40am OH Barkley, Roy
E [11/12] 17308 Lec 006 NRG 4209 M 12:00pm - 2:40pm OH Klau, Robert
E [0/12] 21415 Lec 019 NRG 4209 M 5:40pm - 8:20pm Staff
E [11/12] 17313 Lec 014 NRG 4209 MW 10:30am - 11:50am OH Klau, Robert
E [0/12] 17304 Lec 001 NRG 4209 MW 4:15pm - 5:35pm Staff
E [12/7] 17312 Lec 013 NRG 4209 S 9:00am - 11:40am OH Barkley, Roy
E [10/12] 17314 Lec 015 NRG 4209 TTh 2:00pm - 3:20pm OH Trahan, Allison
E [11/12] 17307 Lec 004 NRG 4209 TTh 4:15pm - 5:35pm OH Klau, Robert
E [0/12] 21405 Lec 018 NRG 4209 TTh 5:35pm - 6:55pm Staff
E [10/12] 17309 Lec 007 NRG 4209 W 12:00pm - 2:30pm OH Klau, Robert
E [0/12] 21416 Lec 020 NRG 4209 W 5:40pm - 8:20pm Staff
E [0/12] 21123 Lec 012 RRC 1208.00 TTh 4:15pm - 5:35pm Staff
E [11/12] 21122 Lec 011 RRC 1208.00 TTh 5:40pm - 7:00pm OH Mann, Travis
E [10/12] 19983 Lec 016 RVS 9112 MW 5:40pm - 7:00pm OH Mooney, Theresa
ETWR 2364 Practicum (or Field Experience) -- English Technical and Business Writing
P [0/10] 17479 Prat 001 NRG 4225 TBA Staff
17479 - Requires instructor approval. Contact davidm@austincc.edu
8 Week Session October 18 - December 12
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [12/1] 20230 Lec 002 RGC 229 Th 6:00pm - 8:50pm OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
8 Week Session August 23 - October 17
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [12/5] 21413 DIL 003 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
21413 - Internet access required. A.Mejia-Dietche, 223.1790 x26219. MANDATORY: email
amejiadi@austincc.edu the 1st class week.
16 Week Session August 23 - December 12
ETWR 1372 Grammar/Style
E+ [15/11] 17476 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Crocker, Amanda
17476 - Internet access required. A. Crocker, 223.1790 x26160, email: acrocker@austincc.edu
- MANDATORY online orientation via Blackboard during the 1st week of class only.
Blackboard is found at http://acconline.austincc.edu/
ETWR 1373 Government and Business Correspondence
E+ [12/11] 17477 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McNeely, Sarah
17477 - 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+ [7/12] 17478 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Crocker, Amanda
17478 - Internet access required. A. Crocker, 223.1790 x26160, email: acrocker@austincc.edu
- MANDATORY online orientation via Blackboard during the 1st week of class only.
Blackboard is found at http://acconline.austincc.edu/
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [7/12] 17305 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Butler, Wayne
17305 - Internet access required. W. Butler, 223.1790 x25690. For MANDATORY orientation
information: email wbutler@austincc.edu the 1st class week
E [6/12] 17306 DIL 003 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Butler, Wayne
17306 - Internet access required. W. Butler, 223.1790 x25690. For MANDATORY orientation
information: email wbutler@austincc.edu the 1st class week
E [9/12] 21389 DIL 021 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McNeely, Sarah
21389 - Internet access required. S. McNeely, 223.1790 x26303. For MANDATORY online
orientation: email smcneely@austincc.edu during the 1st class week
ETWR 2374 Online Helps and Help-Authoring Tools
E+ [10/12] 18837 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
18837 - 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+ [14/6] 17480 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
17480 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
ETWR 2472 Technical Publications with Adobe FrameMaker
E+ [12/5] 17481 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Bates, Whitney
17481 - Internet access required. W. Bates, (223.4804 for information) - MANDATORY:
email whit.bates@gmail.com during 1st class week
ETWR 2473 XHTML and CSS for Information Specialists
E+ [15/8] 18908 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
18908 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
ETWR 2476 Technical Publications with MS Word
E+ [0/12] 18880 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus Staff
ETWR 2479 Collaborative Wikis for Information Development
E+ [12/2] 16015 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Wang, Emmelyn
16015 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
12 Week Session September 20 - December 12
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [10/13] 20474 DIL 005 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
20474 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
E [10/14] 20475 DIL 008 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
20475 - Internet access required. D. McMurrey, 223.4804. MANDATORY: email davidm@austincc.edu
during 1st class week
8 Week Session October 18 - December 12
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [0/12] 20229 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus Staff
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. ENGL 2311 meets the General Education written-communication requirement for workforce education degree plans. Students planning to transfer to a 4-year university should take ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 to satisfy Core Curriculum requirements for English Rhetoric/Composition. Workforce educational programs require either ENGL 2311 or ENGL 1301 for the General Education requirement. Students should consult the college catalog or an advisor to determine which course is required by their degree plan.
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 Technical Publications 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.
ETWR 2476 Technical Publications with MS Word
In this workshop-style course, students practice structuring, designing, and writing book-length documents (books, reports, or both) using the automation and productivity features in Microsoft Word. In addition to composing clear readable text and practicing good document design, students create customized character and paragraph styles, templates, automated tables of contents, indexes, cross-references, table and figure numbers, and other numbering streams. Prerequisite: Strong computer and writing skills.
ETWR 2479 Collaborative Wikis for Information Development
Practice developing information collaboratively in a wiki application in a controlled, organized fashion. Individually, each student will learn how to install and set up a wiki (such as MediaWiki, which drives Wikipedia); handle basic administrative tasks for the wiki; learn how to create and format wiki pages; link to other wiki pages; comment or even edit others' wiki pages; use the discussion feature to discuss pages with others; and use the history and watch features to document and monitor changes to wiki pages. Although MediaWiki may be the featured wiki application, this course can be changed to feature or include other applications such as Drupal or Joomla, depending on students' preferences. This course features a group information-development project. Prerequisite: Good computer skills, strong Internet familiarity.