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Home My WebLink AboutENG-202 Bergen Community College Division of Humanities English Department Course Syllabus ENG-202 - Technical Writing Semester and Year: Meeting: Days/Times/Locations Instructor Name Office Location and Phone Email Address WebEx Link Course Description: This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of expository/analytical writing, with an emphasis on critical thinking/writing in the workplace. Students will explore the theory and practice of writing in a range of fields: business, scientific, and industrial. Students will examine a variety of professional writing samples to learn the skills needed to successfully communicate through professionally written emails, memos, business letters, and various types of reports and analyses. Prerequisite: ENG-101 Composition I Corequisite: None General Education Course for AAS Degrees Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of meeting the requirements in this course, students will be able to: 1. Use critical reading skills to summarize various technical documents, understand and evaluate these texts, and explain how technical writing techniques work to create clear, professional documents. 2. Compose personal and academic responses to written works using appropriate terminology . 2 3. Employ a process approach to continue the development of your writing style. 4. Justify the validity of your approach to technical assignments. 5. Employ quotations and paraphrases from primary and secondary sources in your writing and document them that adhere to appropriate style guide requirements. 6. Revise your assignments, editing and proofreading for clarity, correctness, and coherence. Means of Assessment: Students will be required to do the following: 1. Compose at least four multi-paragraph, technical documents both digital and print in a variety of genres (e.g., informational, procedural, proposal) of at least 500 words. (SLO 1-7) 2. Complete other writing exercises such as summaries, journals, reading responses, reading comprehension questions, quizzes on reading assignments, letters, etc. (SLO 1-4) 3. Read, interpret, and analyze a wide variety of technical works with respect to rhetorical situation. (SLO 1, 4) 4. Comprehend and apply various technical terms to texts assigned by your instructor. (SLO 1-3) 5. Create a 7-10 page document using primary and secondary sources, integrating and citing them in according to appropriate style guide requirements. (SLO 1-7) 6. Produce papers and other technical documents that adhere to appropriate style guide requirements and demonstrate effective proofreading and editing. (SLO 1-7) 7. Complete class discussions and other in-class (individual or group) activities necessary to produce quality academic prose. (SLO 1-2, 4) Course Texts and Other Required Materials Specific required textbook(s) will be included in each instructor’s syllabus. 3 Grading Policy Instructor’s specific grading policy must be included in the syllabus distributed to students. Instructors must include an explicit statement on penalties for late or missed assignments. Attendance Policy BCC Attendance Policy: “All students are expected to attend punctually every scheduled meeting of each course in which they are registered. Attendance and lateness policies and sanctions are to be determined by the instructor for each section of each course. These will be established in writing on the individual course outline. Attendance will be kept by the instructor for administrative and counseling purposes.” BCC Statement on Academic integrity (2022-23 Catalog): Bergen Community College is committed to academic integrity – the honest, fair, and continuing pursuit of knowledge, free from fraud or deception. Students are responsible for their own work. Faculty and academic support services staff will take appropriate measures to discourage academic dishonesty. The College recognizes the following general categories of violations of academic integrity. Academic integrity is violated whenever a student does one or more of the following: 1. Uses unauthorized assistance in any academic work. ● copies from another student’s exam ● uses notes, books, electronic devices or other aids of any kind during an exam, when doing so is prohibited ● steals an exam or possesses a stolen copy of any exam 2. Gives unauthorized assistance to another student ● completes a graded academic activity or takes an exam for someone else ● gives answers to or shares answers with another student before or during an exam or other graded academic activity ● shares answers during an exam by using a system of signals 3. Fabricates data in support of an academic assignment ● cites sources that do not exist ● cites sources that were not used ● submits any academic assignment which contains falsified or fabricated data or results 4. Inappropriately or unethically uses technological means to gain academic advantage ● inappropriately or unethically acquires material via the Internet or by any other means Instructor’s specific attendance policy must be included in the syllabus distributed to students. 4 ● uses any devices (electronic or hidden) for communication or unauthorized retrieval of information during an exam Accessibility Statement Bergen Community College is committed to ensuring the full participation of all students in its programs. If you have a documented disability (or think you may have a disability) and, as a result, need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this class, complete course requirements, or benefit from the College’s programs or services, contact the Office of Special Services (OSS) as soon as possible at 201-612-5270 or www.bergen.edu/oss. To receive any academic accommodation, you must be appropriately registered with OSS. The OSS works with students confidentially and does not disclose any disability-related information without their permission. The OSS serves as a clearinghouse on disability issues and works in partnership with faculty and all other student service offices. Support Services Distance Learning Office Room C 334 201-612-5581 psimms@bergen.edu English Language Resource Center Room E- 156 201-612-5292 http://www.bergen.edu/pages/2182.asp Writing Center Room L 125 201-447- 7489 http://www.bergen.edu/pages/1795.asp Office of Specialized Services Room L 116 201-612-5270 www.bergen.edu/oss Sidney Silverman Library Room L- 226 201-447-7131 www.bergen.edu/library 5 Sample 15-Week Syllabus Week 1 Course Introduction Communicating in the Work Place Week 2 Addressing Technical Audiences Preparing Correspondence: emails, memos, letters Week 3 Planning and Drafting a Technical Document Technical Description MLA format Week 4 Revising and Editing a Technical Document Peer Editing for Technical Description assignment Week 5 Ensuring Usability Designing Technical Information Week 6 Final Draft of Technical Description due Process Explanation Week 7 Using Research in Technical Documents Documenting Sources in Technical Documents Peer Editing for Process Explanation assignment Week 8 Using Visual Forms Preparing Reports Week 9 Preparing Reports cont. Preparing Project Proposals Final Draft of Process Explanation due Week 10 Project Proposal due 6 Designing Electronic Communication Week 11 Oral Communication and Presentation (Power Point) Week 12 Peer Editing for Research document Understanding Culture in the Workplace Week 13 Collaborating in the Workplace Resumes and Cover Letters Week 14 Final Draft of Research Document due Drafting Resume and Cover Letter (in class) Week 15 Final Draft of Resume and Cover Letter due