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After completion of the course, students will be able to do the following:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the writing purposes, audiences, ethical and legal challenges, and
collaborative writing situations faced by workplace writers.
2. Demonstrate understanding of outlines, headings; primary and secondary sources; reader-oriented
sentences, paragraphs, and language; principles of document design; effective visuals; and front and
back matter.
3. Demonstrate understanding of reader-oriented proposals and informal and formal reports, user-
oriented instructions, manuals, web sites, and oral presentations.
4. Demonstrate understanding of business letters, memos, e-mail, netiquette, and job
correspondence(s).
Textbook:
Markel, Mike. Technical Communication 10
th
edition (Bedford St. Martins, 2012).
ISBN-10: 0-312-67948-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-67948-4 Paper Text, 832 pages.
Additional Supplies:
Memory stick or flash drive (highly recommended) to save your documents.
Student E-mail Policy:
Dakota College at Bottineau is increasingly dependent upon email as an
official form of communication. A student’s campus-assigned email address will be the only one
recognized by the campus for official mailings. The liability for missing or not acting upon important
information conveyed via campus email rests with the student.
Participation:
Participation is a significant part of your grade, and if you are not “present,” then you
obviously cannot participate. To be a successful college student, consistent and constructive
participation each week of class is essential and expected. Habitual negligence of your coursework
can result in a significant negative impact on your overall grade and financial aid status, and
if there
has been a significant lack of participation or submissions for two weeks or more, you should
not expect to pass the course and may be asked to withdraw.
Late Work Policy:
All assignments are due as stated on the course calendar (schedule) or as
announced via Moodle.
Late work is not accepted -- no exceptions.
All unit assignments are due by
11:55 p.m. on Sunday.
A few things on this topic: You should not wait until Sunday night to begin the week’s work nor ask
for extra time because your computer or internet connection went out. I will have no way to verify
such occurrences. Lastly, students are responsible for meeting all specified deadlines -- no
exceptions.
Professionalism:
In this class, you are a professional-in-training and as such will act like one.
Remember that professionals are people who earn and give respect based on their actions. I insist on
a class that maintains respect regarding others’ ideas, thoughts, and perspectives. At any time, if I
feel students are not respecting each other or me, I will deal with the situation accordingly. This may