Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
Recognize, analyze, and accommodate diverse audiences.
Produce documents appropriate to audience, purpose, and genre.
Analyze the ethical responsibilities involved in technical communication.
Locate, evaluate, and incorporate pertinent information.
Develop verbal, visual, and multimedia materials as necessary, in individual and/or collaborative projects, as appropriate.
Edit for appropriate style, including attention to word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling.
Design and test documents for easy reading and navigation.
This course satisfies Foundational Component Area (FCA) Communication as specified in Texas Administrative Code Title 19.1.4.B Rule 4.28: https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=1&ch=4&rl=28
The Core Curriculum Core Objectives for FCA Communication are:
Critical Thinking (CT): To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
Communication Skills (CS): To include effective written, oral and visual communication
Teamwork (T): To include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal
Personal Responsibility (PR): To include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making.