Intermediate Technical Writing
Contact Hours: 30 (an estimated time frame devoted to a course of study from start to finish that can vary from student to student)
This technical-writing course introduces you to basic page design such as headings, lists, tables, notices, and highlighting.
You`ll learn and be expected to use standard design, format, and style for these page-design elements in the documents you write for this course. These are much the same standards as those used in the technical-publishing industry today. After you study the page-design units, you will write a set of instructions in which you use these guidelines and of course the general standards for good writing as well.
You will e-mail these instructions to your instructor who will review, comment on, and send them back to you by e-mail attachment.
You`ll follow the same process for the recommendation report. The course is appropriate for people who have had some on-the-job experience as well as those who may have taken Introduction to Technical Writing for Industry. may be taken alone or as part of the sequence of courses leading to a certificate in technical writing.
Please note: Course of study may be completed earlier than indicated. Also, JER Online provides top-tier Technical Writing programs that adhere to academic guidelines. All assignments turned in by students are to be their own work with proper references cited. Any form of plagiarism noted will result in immediate course termination and failure.Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
BEFORE THE CLASS BEGINS
Introductions and start-up. To begin the course, you will fill out an online schedule and questionnaire, specifying your own due dates for the units included in this course. Doing so will generate your own web-page schedule with links to all the assignments, readings, exercises, and related information.
You`ll receive an e-mail introduction from your instructor and will then send e-mail introducing yourself.