What is English 301: Technical and Professional Writing?

English 301 Technical and Professional Writing is a course designed for those students who will be writing in the technical professions. You will learn how to create correspondence, descriptions, instructions, reports, and electronic presentations. You will also learn how to design documents and how to incorporate graphics into your documents. The rationale for this class is to help prepare you for communication within professional and technical environments. In this class, you will learn the skills needed to be successful with writing and reading in your future career. This class will instruct you in the importance of maintaining good communication when working with various audiences.

English 301 Course Goals and Objectives

This course will require that you work on various projects that will help you to understand different communication situations in a professional setting. For our first project, you will examine a problem in corporate communications using a real-life case. Later projects will ask you to understand how to communicate to non-expert audiences, design a set of instructions, communicate with a global audience, and write a proposal. After doing these projects, you will know how to

• Communicate to outside audiences in a professional manner and style
• Write and design business documents, such as memos and professional letters
• Work cooperatively in a team setting with shared goals

Ultimately, the goal for this course is to help you be a successful communicator in your future career path. But before we get into each chapter, which focuses on a specific project for the course, you need to understand what makes up professional communication as related to the technical professions.