COMMUNICATIONS

Technical Communication

LCC 3401: Technical Communication Practices offers juniors and seniors advanced skills in critical reading, audience-focused professional writing, and effective oral communication. Through intensive in-class seminars and workshops, students learn how to employ these skills in their upper-level student projects and in their future professional communities.

A two-semester hour course that meets two hours per week, LCC 3401 includes both individual and collaborative assignments, requiring both print and electronic documents as well as graphics-supported oral presentations. Students work with collaborative groupware to compose documents and use a variety of software for document design and graphics.

Some sections of LCC 3401 are major-restricted and focused on the skills needed in specific disciplines. The remaining sections are open to all juniors and seniors with priority given to students whose major requires the course.

LCC 3401 does not count toward the humanities credit requirement.

Lectures, class discussions and projects typically require students to:

  • analyze communication situations and audiences in corporate and other professional settings
  • collect and analyze the information required by those situations and the audiences
  • use principles of document design to create and present clear and readable content for specific situations and audiences
  • address the ethical and legal concerns posed in creating and disseminating technical documents
  • employ graphics to achieve maximum clarity in oral and written presentations
  • present clear and focused oral presentations of technical material
  • work individually to create short proposals and analytical reports
  • work with a group in a networked collaborative environment to create a longer proposal

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