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3.00 Credits
Advisory: ARTNM 352, CISA 305, and ENGWR 342 Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course is designed for professionals in all fi elds who need to design, create, and revise user and reference manuals in print or online formats. The course offers strategies for audience and task analysis, product learning, document design, drafting, procedure writing, and revision. Desktop publishing and/or online help development tools are used to produce a portfolio-quality print or online manual.
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1.00 Credits
Advisory: ENGWR 102 or 103. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 18 hours LEC This course examines trends in the profession of technical writing, including job opportunities, salaries, responsibilities, requirements, and tools. Permanent employment is compared to independent contracting and contracting with agencies. Visiting technical writers describe a day on the job and share tips for getting started. Topics include letters of application, resumes, and portfolios.
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1.00 Credits
Advisory: ENGWR 342 or 344. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 18 hours LEC This technical writing course covers all the elements of formal reports, including how to write letters of transmittal, create title pages, automatically generate tables of contents, write executive summaries, format pages, and prepare glossaries and appendices. Style lessons focus on controlling tone, tense, person, and voice.
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1.00 Credits
Advisory: ENGWR 342 or 344. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 18 hours LEC This technical writing course focuses on developing training materials, including student handbooks, instructor guides, and other instructional aids. The course surveys instructional design theory and the impact of technology in the form of CBT (Computer-Based Training) and WBT (Web-Based Training).
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2.00 Credits
Hours: 36 hours LEC This course emphasizes the improvement of spelling through study of basic rules of spelling and application of those rules. Readings, writing and individualized spelling lists will be required throughout the course to supplement and reinforce spelling rules.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement through assessment process. General Education: AA/AS Area II(a); CSU Area A2; IGETC Area 1A Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This honors composition course requires the analysis of professional essays and at least one full-length volume of non-fi ction that exhibit complexity in both subject and structure. It emphasizes writing carefully reasoned, stylistically sophisticated essays of varying lengths and in varying rhetorical modes; at least one of those essays requires research and appropriate MLA documentation. Essays written during the term will total at least 6,500 words. One or more additional hours per week in the Learning Resources Center or Writing Across the Curriculum or Reading Across the Disciplines programs may be required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher; ENGWR 300 or 480 with a grade of "C" or better.General Education: AA/AS Area II(b); CSU Area A3; IGETC Area 1B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This is an advanced course in critical reasoning and writing about literature. It examines the four major genres--the novel, the short story, poetry, and drama by authors representing diverse perspectives. It will explore principles of formal and informal logic, characteristics of sophisticated writing, and means of recognizing logical fallacies. Written analyses will total at least 6,500 words and will include material from secondary sources, cited and documented according to MLA format. Attendance at a live theater production may be required. One or more additional hours per week in the Learning Resource Center or Writing Across the Curriculum or Reading Across the Disciplines programs may be required.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher; ENGWR 300 or 480 with a grade of "C" or better.Advisory: ENGRD 310 or 312 General Education: AA/AS Area II(b); CSU Area A3; IGETC Area 1B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This is a course in critical reasoning, reading, and writing requiring a high level of competence in English composition. Complex texts (essay and book-length works) refl ecting a variety of cultural, historical, and philosophical perspectives will be read, discussed, and analyzed. The course includes inductive and deductive reasoning, fallacious reasoning, and use of persuasive language. The minimum word requirement of 6,500 words will be divided among at least four formal essays, ranging from 1,000-3,000 words each, two of which will include primary and secondary research and MLA format. Several group and individual class presentations will be required.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One or more units of ENGWR 53 with "credit" grade, orplacement through assessment. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in ENGRD 15. Hours: 72 hours LEC This course focuses on basic writing skills, emphasizing the connection between writing and reading. This course includes reading, studying and responding orally and in writing to short, nonfi ction multicultural selections at an appropriate level. The course emphasizes the writing process and development of specifi c skills within the sentence, paragraph and essay forms in preparation for ENGWR 102 or 103. The course also emphasizes the reading process and development of comprehension skills. One or more hours may be required in the Learning Resource Center. This course may be taken twice for credit.
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1.00 - 1.50 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement through the assessment process. Hours: 27 hours LEC This course is designed to sharpen the writing skills of students enrolled in campus certifi cate programs. Topics will include techniques for creating and understanding memos and directions, job-related forms and other work related writing. In addition, listening skills, group interaction techniques, and problem-solving skills will be introduced. Additional hours may be required in the Learning Resource Center.
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