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WRIT 3441 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | WRIT 3441 Section 001: Editing, Critique, and Style (20678)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- soph or jr or sr
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In this course, students will increase their understanding of how language works and will learn to make choices about language, style, and punctuation to create messages that are clear, concise, and useful. The course emphasizes technical communication, but the skills learned can be applied to any communication situation. Editing practice will include three levels of editing to make the documents comprehensible and useful in which students will not only polish their grammar and punctuation skills, but they will also learn how to explain and justify changes they make in documents. Topics also included in the course are editing methods for both paper and electronic copy and editing for organization and visual design.
- Class Description:
- In this course, students will increase their understanding of how language works and will learn to make choices about language, style, and punctuation to create messages that are clear, concise, and useful. The course emphasizes scientific and technical communication, but the skills learned can be applied to any communication situation. The emphasis in the course will be on creating documents that work for the people who will use them. Students will not only polish their grammar and punctuation skills, but they will also learn how to explain and justify changes they make in documents to the writers of those documents. Moreover, students will work with already created documents that need those editing skills to make the documents comprehensible and useful. Students will learn how to edit paper copy as well as electronic copy.
- Grading:
- 9% Midterm Exam
10% Final Exam
28% Special Projects
33% Written Homework
20% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
25% Discussion
25% Demonstration
25% Web Based
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
1 Exam(s)
4 Special Project(s)
9 Homework Assignment(s)
12 Problem Set(s)
Other Workload: Students will do in-class editing projects using online and hard copy methods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20678/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 October 2013
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