2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

ENG 253 Technical Writing in Computer Science, Math, and Science

3 hours

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.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 101 and ENG 201

Notes

This course satisfies the College Option: Communications area of the Gen Ed Program.