In this capstone course, students will extend foundational skills learned in previous technical communication courses. Students’ will demonstrate their competency of the technical documentation process in organizational environments, the issues important to the technical communication profession, and the practices of writing and creating complex technical documents for specific purpose and audience. 

 

Course Objectives.

• analyzing and addressing the purpose, audience, and situation;

• researching and inventing content for technical documents in terms of purpose, audience, and situation;

• selecting and managing the appropriate genre for the situation;
  creating a logical and explicit arrangement of technical

• information that fits the purpose, audience, and situation;
  writing in the appropriate tone and style for the purpose, audience, and situation;

• incorporating sound principles of layout and design in the creation of a technical documents; and

• creating appropriate visual support for technical documents.