Course Information

TECHNICAL & BUSINESS WRITING (ENGL 2311)

Term: 2017-2018 Spring

Faculty

Sarah DeCapua

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Sarah E. DeCapua

Sarah E. DeCapua

North Central Texas College

1525 W. California St.

Gainesville, TX 76240

sdecapua@nctc.edu

Teaching Experience:

University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT

Texas Woman’s University – Denton, TX

Southern Connecticut State University — New Haven, CT

Education:

PhD, Composition & TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 2016

MAT, Secondary English, Sacred Heart University - 1993

Schedule

Thu, 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM (1/16/2018 - 5/11/2018) Location: GNV GNV05 509

Description

Intensive study of and practice in professional settings. Focus on the types of documents necessary to make decisions and take action on the job, such as proposals, reports, instructions, policies and procedures, e-mail messages, letters, and descriptions of products and services. Practice individual and collaborative processes involved in the creation of ethical and efficient documents.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: 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; and design and test documents for easy reading and navigation.
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