In this course, students will perform tasks related to the technical writing process in order to write effectively on the job. In addition to learning to generate written documents for the technical and business professions, this course will focus on skills such as defining purpose, understanding readers, understanding clients, constructing effective sentences and paragraphs, composing drafts, testing drafts and revising the quality of finished documents. At the completion of the course, students will be able to create communications that will succeed in the workplace.

English Elective

English Elective

Study and practice of various types of writing in scientific, business and technological disciplines including abstracts, progress reports, description of a process, technical proposals, technical reports and business documents such as memoranda, letters, and resumes. Course includes one laboratory hour of instruction in business and technical software applications. (Liberal Arts students must have written permission of Department Chairperson.)

Writing Elective I

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CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

Elective Undergraduate: Liberal Arts

Whether in academia or in the professional workplace, programmers, creators, scholars, and designers need to explain their complex concepts and original technical innovations in informative and easy-to-understand communications. In this course, students learn to write effectively in their disciplines by mastering a variety of writing strategies: explaining a topic, writing to audiences with differing levels of expertise, analyzing the work of experts, presenting original research across several media, and doing so in the precise structures, vocabulary and style required of technical writers.

The principles of writing effective business communications, including letters, reports, memoranda, directives. Emphasis on organization, language, personal relations and application of business psychology in writing.

This course will focus on the role of writing in engineering, mathematics and computer science. Topics will include practical formats within technical writing, expository and periodical writing on scientific and technological subjects, and other compositional and rhetorical strategies that develop and improve students' abilities in effective written communication. Students will write essays based upon readings in their textbooks and professional essays and articles.CUNY Pathways: Required Core-English Composition

200-LEVEL ELECTIVE

This course introduces students to the kinds of skills they will need to have in technically oriented professional careers. The curriculum is guided by the technical writing needs of business, industry, and society. Students write using various formats including, resumes, application letters, short reports, proposals, business plans, progress reports, and user guides. They review writing process and audience analysis, conventions, graphics, and document design. Web research skills, on-line writing, and library skills are also covered in the course.

Sustainability describes an approach to the design, construction and stewardship of products and environments that align human need and ecological resourcefulness. This course focuses on built work of the last 200 years that grew from a new consciousness of ecological limits, living system dynamics and understanding of human well-being. The practice of sustainability has developed numerous and sometimes competing logics. This course explores how sustainable criteria are influenced by outlook (and self-interest) and how the prioritization of health, social agendas, economics, aesthetics, environmental protection or resource efficiency have shaped selected buildings, landscapes and city plans.

Students communicate technical and scientific information to a variety of audiences through written and oral presentations using electronic media such as the Internet, Power Point and graphics programs. Students also analyze readings in science and technology, study technical writing models, and practice collaborative research and presentation.

An intermediate expository writing course using forms and modes appropriate to various professions and disciplines. Special fields covered in the past have included medicine, law, business, computer science, teaching, psychology, music, art, and film. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

This course provides a means for the Department of English to award Liberal Arts and Sciences transfer credit to courses taken at another college which do not match specific QCC courses. Credits will be awarded based on the credits earned at the sending college and conditional upon approval by the academic department.

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

A selected topic in English studies. This course may be repeated for no more than 6 credits if different topics are studied. The topic varies with each offering. This is a writing intensive course. This course may be offered as a face-to-face course or a hybrid course.