Technical and Professional Communication at Rensselaer

Fall 1996
Section 43-4120-03
T/R 2:00 - 3:20
Sage 4510

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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Class Policies

Calendar

Grading

Intellectual Property Statement

Class Roster

Required Materials


Send mail to class list:
techpro@rpi.edu

Instructor: Mick Doherty
Office: 2510 Sage (outer office)
Virtual Office: telnet to purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888
and type @join Mick
Office hours: immediately following class; by appointment; in virtual space most weekday evenings.
Electronic Mail: mick@rpi.edu


Instead of viewing words as names  for things  we should view them as abbreviated titles  for situations. 

--Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action

A Dilbert Cartoon

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