UWP 104A-3 — Business Reports and Technical Communication
Fall 2010
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UWP 104A aims to prepare students to be effective communicators and writers in their future professional careers. Our class will help students to develop workplace writing skills and to understand and ultimately apply the technical and rhetorical principles guiding and underlying workplace writing practices. The course will introduce students to some of the basic issues, elements, and genres of business and technical communication:
- Differentiating academic and professional writing
- Analyzing contexts, purposes, and audiences to determine appropriate writing and design choices
- Employing writing as a process, including research, drafting, testing, revising, and editing
- Learning effective collaboration and project-management strategies
- Developing an effective professional tone and style
- Writing clear, concise, consistent, and accurate prose
- Employing rhetorical strategies for effective graphic and document design
- Becoming familiar with report genres of business and technical communication
- Gaining proficiency in using computer-mediated communications
- Learning incidentally about leadership, innovative and creative thinking, and networking
Our section of UWP 104A will focus on these themes: Participation, Originality, Leadership, Innovation, Technology, Independent Discoveries, Collaboration and Social Networking.
Instructor: Andy Jones
Email: aojones@ucdavis.edu
Twitter: @andyojones (for immediate responses)
Office Hours: T, 11-12, Th, 2-3, & by appointment
Office: 353 Voorhies
CRN 81291 / 1 Olson / MW 10:30-11:50
Attendance Mandatory
