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Full-Text Articles in Technical and Professional Writing
Syllabus For Writing For The Social Sciences, Brenna E. Crowe
Syllabus For Writing For The Social Sciences, Brenna E. Crowe
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A writing class designed for students pursuing degrees in the social sciences—the major assignments are a "career builder" where student practice rhetoric with professional writing on job searches, a literature review, a public awareness campaign, an informational interview, and a portfolio.
Spn 11x: Spanish For Healthcare Professionals I, Francisco Salgado-Robles
Spn 11x: Spanish For Healthcare Professionals I, Francisco Salgado-Robles
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This course has been specifically designed to meet the needs of students in the health professions. It is one of the first courses anywhere in the country to interweave culture, language instruction, and health care material. As such, students will be performing a variety of exercises and activities designed to strengthen each of these areas.
Revision Goal Setting Worksheet, Margot Craven
Revision Goal Setting Worksheet, Margot Craven
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This worksheet helps students identify goals as well as acknowledge core requirements and resources in the revision process.
Writing For The Sciences, Joseph Boisvere
Writing For The Sciences, Joseph Boisvere
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An OER syllabus for CCNY Eng 21003: Writing for the Sciences, offering an outline for a Zero Textbook Cost course.
Technical Report: Solving Global Problems [Composition], Lara V. Kattekola
Technical Report: Solving Global Problems [Composition], Lara V. Kattekola
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This assignment was developed as part of a 2018-19 Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) -sponsored Learning Matters Global Learning Mini-grant awarded to support the ENG 259 Technical Writing course. This course is required for engineering students as the second course in their composition sequence to be taken in lieu of ENG 102. The aim of the mini-grant was to integrate LaGuardia’s Global Learning Core Competency into the ENG 259 course via the development of a high stakes global learning assignment. The assignment was developed during the Fall 2018 CTL Learning Matters Mini-Grant seminar meetings led by Drs. Karen Miller …
Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text For Instruction In Technical And Professional Writing, Adam Rex Pope
Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text For Instruction In Technical And Professional Writing, Adam Rex Pope
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This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.
Fiqws 10105 Killer Stories Composition, Caroline M. Cooper Ms.
Fiqws 10105 Killer Stories Composition, Caroline M. Cooper Ms.
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This syllabus is intended to be used in conjunction with the CCNY course Killer Stories, a dual class focusing on reading, writing, and discussion of key issues raised in texts that feature killing. This syllabus represents the intended course of study for the composition section of the course, in which students develop and refine their argumentative writing skills in response to the texts.
Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Lib 3065 (Research Methods And Resources For Writers), Christopher Tuthill
Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Lib 3065 (Research Methods And Resources For Writers), Christopher Tuthill
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This course explores the theoretical and practical impact of information research on writing. Students develop proficiency in evaluating, identifying, and using relevant print and web sources to locate business, government, biographic, political, social and statistical information necessary for in-depth journalistic reportage and other forms of research and writing.
Decoding Quantitative Language, Steven Cosares, Evelyn Burg
Decoding Quantitative Language, Steven Cosares, Evelyn Burg
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We all need some “quantitative literacy” in order to communicate effectively. This means being able to read, write or speak intelligently in a medium where some quantitative information is a part the discussion, proof, or argument. The readers of these materials are expected to have sufficient wherewithal to understand this language so as to draw appropriate conclusions. Developing this type of literacy requires practice. It means using everyday language to describe the ways in which quantities relate to one another.