Austin Community College
Spring 2011 - OPEN COURSES
Course Descriptions All Courses Classroom Courses Distance Learning Courses
Updated: 11/30/2011 11:00:40
BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
8 Week Session January 18 - March 13
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [12/5] 26312 Lec 001 RGC 229 TTh 6:00pm - 8:50pm OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
16 Week Session January 18 - May 15
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [8/12] 23392 Lec 017 CYP 1140 MW 10:30am - 11:50am OH Trahan, Allison
E [10/12] 23378 Lec 001 CYP 2221 W 7:05pm - 9:45pm OH Mann, Travis
E [12/8] 23387 Lec 012 NRG 4209 F 9:00am - 11:40am OH Barkley, Roy
E [11/12] 23382 Lec 005 NRG 4209 MW 9:10am - 10:30am OH Klau, Robert
E [11/12] 23379 Lec 002 NRG 4209 MW 10:40am - 12:00pm OH Klau, Robert
E [9/12] 23383 Lec 006 NRG 4209 MW 2:50pm - 4:10pm OH Pruett, David
E [12/6] 23384 Lec 007 NRG 4209 S 9:00am - 11:40am OH Barkley, Roy
E [10/12] 23389 Lec 014 NRG 4209 TTh 10:35am - 11:50am OH Mann, Travis
E [11/12] 23385 Lec 009 NRG 4209 TTh 1:25pm - 2:40pm OH Dallas, Mary
E [3/12] 27467 Lec 022 NRG 4209 TTh 5:40pm - 6:55pm OH Crocker, Amanda
E [11/12] 27469 Lec 024 NRG 4209 W 5:40pm - 8:20pm OH Kapoor, Neerja
E [12/10] 27066 Lec 020 RRC 1208. TTh 4:15pm - 5:30pm OH Mann, Travis
E [8/12] 26577 Lec 027 RVS 9108 M 5:40pm - 8:20pm OH Mooney, Theresa
E [10/15] 23391 Lec 016 RVS 9108 MW 4:10pm - 5:30pm OH Dallas, Mary
ETWR 2364 Practicum (or Field Experience) -- English Technical and Business Writing
P [1/10] 23597 Prat 001 NRG 4225 TBA OH McMurrey, David
12 Week Session February 14 - May 15
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [8/12] 25201 Lec 026 FBG 137 Th 8:40am - 12:00pm OH Gedeon, Kristi
16 Week Session January 18 - May 15
ETWR 1372 Grammar/Style
E+ [11/14] 23590 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Crocker, Amanda
23590 - Internet access required.
ETWR 1373 Government and Business Correspondence
E+ [15/11] 23593 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Mooney, Theresa
23593 - Internet access required.
ETWR 1377 Indexing and Document Control
E+ [15/8] 23595 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Reed, Mindy
23595 - Internet access required.
ETWR 1378 Administrative Policy Writing
E+ [15/11] 22252 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Steinbach, Mark
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [8/12] 23386 DIL 011 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Butler, Wayne
23386 - Internet access required.
ETWR 2379 Editing Government, Business and Technical Information
E+ [16/10] 23603 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
23603 - Internet access required.
ETWR 2472 Technical Publications with Adobe FrameMaker
E+ [12/5] 23604 DIL 001 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Williams, Joe
23604 - Internet access required.
ETWR 2478 XML and Structured Authoring for Information Specialists
E+ [13/9] 23608 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Williams, Joe
23608 - Internet access required.
12 Week Session February 14 - May 15
ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
E [10/12] 26628 DIL 008 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McNeely, Sarah
26628 - Internet access required.
E [7/13] 26629 DIL 010 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
26629 - Internet access required.
E [10/12] 26630 DIL 018 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH McMurrey, David
26630 - Internet access required.
8 Week Session March 21 - May 15
ETWR 1376 Grant Proposals and Business Plans
E+ [14/5] 26453 DIL 002 ONL Orientation req. See Open Campus OH Mejia-Dietche, Ana
26453 - Internet access required.
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 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 1377 Indexing and Document Control
A study of the fundamentals of indexing documents, both print and online. Includes critique of existing indexes and brief indexing exercises focusing on processes for rough-drafting indexes. Students learn to revise and fine-tune other writers' rough-draft indexes as well as their own. Students learn processes for developing consistent indexes as a documentation team. The course includes an introduction to indexing tools in desktop publishing software such as Word and FrameMaker as well as software applications commonly used for document control. 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.
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 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 2478 XML and Structured Authoring for Information Specialists
Introduces XML and related technologies focusing on their application in business, government, and technical communications. In addition to an overview of the raw materials needed to create and transform XML (DTDs, schemas, XSL and CSS stylesheets), the course introduces students to industry-standard solutions such as DocBook, DITA and the related tools, both commercial and open source. Students learn to create and validate XML documents and to transform them into a variety of output formats (HTML, CHM, PDF, RTF, MIF). Students also learn the origins and evolution of SGML and XML and how to evaluate the appropriateness of an XML-based solution for various situations they might encounter as professionals. Prerequisite: Knowledge of HTML; strong computer and Internet skills.