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Technical
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Professional
Communication
at
Rensselaer
Fall 1996 This course is designed to prepare you in the methods and forms of communication used in business and professional environments, with special attention paid to the new demands of electronic communication skills and the "grammar of the screen" in a marketplace still dominated by the printed page. Writing in this course will emphasize the importance of addressing the needs and values of a particular audience, identified and/or determined in ways that will make assignments as relevant as possible to your major or a field of specialization. These intended audiences should include employers in your field, peers in your major, and professionals in your field. Technical communication serves both technical students whose work includes substantial writing, such as engineering, science, and management students, and also communications students whose primary work activities will be writing and other forms of communication.
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Course Objectives
Intellectual Property Statement
Instructor:
Mick Doherty
Instead of viewing words as names for
things we should view them as
abbreviated titles for situations.
--Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action
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