| TW100: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics for Technical Writers
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This course includes quick reviews of grammar, usage, and punctuation as well as units on technical style (such as capitalization, numbers vs words, and abbreviations). During this course, you write several short documents. This course includes studies in Joseph M. Williams' excellent Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. If you are proficient at the "basics" covered earlier in this course, you can spend most of your time on this book, which is valuable to even the most experienced of professional writers. |
| TW100B: Grammar, Usage, Punctuation Intensive Review
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This course focuses directly on the classic grammar, usage, and punctuation issues such as subject-verb agreement, comma splices, fragments, pronoun case, parallelism, dangling modifiers, and apostrophes. As needed you can study basic grammar topics such as parts of speech, parts of the sentence, and types of phrases and clauses. |
| TW100C: Basic Grammar and Spelling: An Intensive Review
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This course focuses on basic grammar topics such as parts of speech, parts of the sentence, participial phrases, gerunds, appositives, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, and noun clauses. This is as "basic" as it gets! |
| TW101: Technical Writing Fundamentals
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This course is an introduction to the format, writing style, content, and organization common to technical writing as it is practiced in the technical-publishing industry. In this course, you write a number of short writing projects in which you practice headings, lists, notices, tables, highlighting, and other format and style common to technical writing. |
| TW102: Graphics for Technical Writers
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Learn important skills for handling graphics in your technical documents. These skills include screen-capturing, cropping and sizing, changing graphic file format, positioning and anchoring, combining, adding text labels to, and optimizing images. In this course, you must purchase or make arrangements to access Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop. Brooklyn College's own online Photoshop course is a recommended prerequisite but not required. |
| TW103: User Guides and FrameMaker
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In this FrameMaker user-guide course, learn the structure and design of user guides as well as how to create a fully "automated" book using FrameMaker. You will have to purchase or make arrangements to access a reasonably current version of FrameMaker. |
| TW104: Technical Documentation with XHTML and CSS
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In this HTML documentation course, learn how to create web pages directly using HTML tags. You also get an introduction to some labor-saving techniques with macro-equipped text editors and an introduction to the most in-demand web-page and web-site development tool (currently, Adbe Dreamweaver). This course includes units on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). MC301, Creating Web Pages, is recommended as preparation for this course, but not required. |
| TW105: Online Helps and RoboHELP
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In this course, you focus on developing online helps. Although it is highly recommended to use Adobe RoboHelp to create helps in this course, you can use other help-authoring applications. In this course, you develop online helps for a small computer application or component. |
| TW106: Researched Technical Reports and Proposals
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Write technical reports and proposals based on careful audience analysis and information research. You will also convert one of your reports using presentation software such as Microsoft's Powerpoint and another report using portable document software such as Adobe Acrobat. You must purchase or make arrangements to access reasonably current versions of Powerpoint, Acrobat, or other software that provides these functions. |
| TW106B: Standard College-Level Technical Writing
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This course includes everything in TW106 but also units and writing projects involving application letters and resumes, instructions, business letters, recommendation reports, oral reports (scripts done in Powerpoint-style applications) and progress reports. This is the basic technical-writing course taken by technical and business majors in colleges in the U.S. and Canada. |
| TW107: Indexing for Technical Writers
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Review the essential functions of back-of-the-book indexes; practice brainstorming and rough-drafting techniques for indexing; practice revision, clean-up, and finetuning techniques for indexes; develop indexes for one or more brief technical documents. (Can be taken in place of TW106 or TW110.) |
| TW108: Technical Editing
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Learn the roles of the technical editor in the development on technical information; practice copymarking, copyediting, proofreading, and comprehensive editing (substantive editing); practice editing material such as online documents, tables, figures, and other visual-design features; learn how to review and comment on documents electronically; learn how to create style sheets, style guides and how to write edit review summaries. (Can be taken in place of TW106 or TW110.) |
| TW109: User Guides with Microsoft Word
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Create book-length technical documents with Microsoft Word: create automated tables of contents, indexes, table and figure numbers, and cross-references; use fields for other numbering streams; learn other Word features for increased productivity and rapid updating. TW103 or TW109 is required for the certificate. |
| TW110: Starting a Technical-Writing Career
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Learn about finding technical-writing jobs, negotiating permanent or freelance contracts, building a portfolio, creating a good resume, understanding organizations and processes as a technical writer, working as a member of a development team, staying on top of the profession, being an active and contributing member of the profession, and other such topics. Visit with practicing professionals in chatrooms, build a resume and portfolio, have them critiqued by practicing professionals, and do other such activities. Prerequisite: To take this course, you must have completed at least three other courses in this program. |
| TW113: Business Communications (Correspondence)
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Practice business correspondence delivered through common media (business letters, memos, and e-mail), across organizational hierarchies (work associates at lower, same, and higher organizational levels), and based in typical situations (good news, bad news, policy and schedule changes, information requests, reprimands, rationales, denials, and other tricky business-communication situations). The emphasis is on clear, tactful, succinct, direct, well-structured writing that gets the job done.
Note: This is an alternative course you can take in place of TW100, TW106, or TW110. |
| TW200: Information-Development Process
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This course provides a careful examination of the key phases and deliverables of the information-development process. You study process models, practice estimating projects, write an information-development proposal and plan, develop prototypes and templates, develop a project tracking system, create a usability test plan and style guide, and develop a process guide.
Note: With instructor approval, this course may be counted toward earning the certificate. |
| TW210: Technical Publishing with Contemporary Desktop Publishing Systems
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This course enables you to explore a desktop publishing (DTP) application of your choice in a structured way. Your goals is to explore, learn, and document the book-building, conversion, and automation features of the application you choose. It will be your job to write quick-reference guides or tutorials for each of the applicable units for beginners with that application.
Note: With instructor approval, this course may be counted toward earning the certificate. |
| TW999: Special Topics in Technical Communication
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The instructor and one or more students develop a customized course that focuses on a topic not offered in the Brooklyn College Technical Writing curriculum. Special topics can include other software applications, other technical-communication genres, other documentation methods, and other documentation projects. Students may use the course to research and write about technical-communication issues, or as a means of getting editorial assistance on individual writing projects. Note: With instructor approval, this course may be counted toward earning the certificate. |
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