ENGLISH 316--Technical Comunication
English 316 focuses on effective processes of written, oral, and visual technical communication for academic and professional settings. Students study how scientists and engineers communicate to solve problems and answer questions, including conducting library and empirical research and usability testing. Students learn conventions of organization and style appropriate in their majors, including how to incorporate tables and figures and how to use appropriate documentation styles. Students also learn how to adapt their writing for the various audiences, purposes, and contexts that they will encounter in their chosen careers.
Course Texts
Technical Communication BYU Custom Package, 4th ed., Johnson and Sheehan
Sample Syllabus
https://learningsuite.byu.edu/view/74T62h4Ytu10.html
ENGLISH 315--Writing in the Social Sciences
English 315 deals with written, oral, and visual rhetoric used in the academic disciplines and professions concerned with human behavior and social institutions. It addresses the kinds of questions posed by social scientists and their methods for answering those, including empirical research and library research methods. It teaches conventions of organization and style used in the genres of the social sciences, including why and how to use documentation styles. The course stresses adapting writing for different audiences. Its main goal is to prepare students to use the written, spoken, and visual rhetoric of the fields they are majoring in and the fields in which they are likely to have careers.
Course Texts
Writing in the Social Sciences, Kristine Hansen
Style, Kristine Hansen
ENGLISH 312--Persuasive Writing
English 312 is a course in persuasive writing based on practical reasoning or informal logic. Writing is persuasive when it attempts to advance a claim with a given audience for reasons acceptable to the audience. The course falls within the discipline of dialectical/rhetorical argument. The course trains students to analyze, evaluate and generate arguments.
Course Texts
Making Rhetorical Arguments, Grant Boswell
