Technical and Business Writing (English III) Course Outline - University of Sargodha

Course Title: Technical and Business Writing (English III)

Course Code: ENG-2413
Course Structure: Lectures: 3/ Labs: 0
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites:None

Course Objectives:

To effectively plan and structure technical reports and to recognize the various stages in writing
a technical report.

Course Syllabus:

Writing for Readers.Academic, Public, and Work Communities.Analyzing Electronic
Communities.Discovering and Planning. Purpose, Thesis, and Audience.Drafting. Revising,
Editing, and Proofreading. Paragraphs.Clear and Emphatic Sentences.Reasoning
Critically.Reading Critically.Arguing Persuasively.Designing Documents.Writing in Online
Communities.Speaking Effectively. Academic Writing for Social and Natural Sciences. Public
Writing. Researching and Writing.

Course Outline:

1.     Writing for Readers: Academic, Public, and Work Communities; Analyzing Electronic
Communities; c. Myths and Realities about Writing.

2.      Discovering and Planning: Discovering Topics; Generating Ideas; Organizing
Information; Planning in Digital Environments.

3.      Purpose, Thesis, and Audience: Identifying Your Focus and Purpose; Creating a Thesis;
Understanding Your Readers.

4.      Drafting: Moving from Planning to Drafting, Drafting Collaboratively, Drafting in
Digital Environments.

5.      Revising, Editing, and Proofreading: Making Major Revisions; Making Minor
Revisions; Revising Collaboratively; Revising in Digital Environments; Editing; Editing
Collaboratively; Proofreading.

6.      Paragraphs: Unfocused Paragraphs; Revising for Focus; Incoherent Paragraphs; Revising
for Coherence; Poorly Developed Paragraphs; Revising for Development; Using Special-
Purpose Paragraphs.

7.      Clear and Emphatic Sentences: Unclear Sentences; Revising for Clear Sentences;
Revising for Variety and Emphasis.

8.      Reasoning Critically: Recognizing Critical Reasoning, Building a Chain of Reasoning,
Representing Your Reasoning.

9.      Reading Critically: Reading to Understand; Reading to Respond and Evaluate; Using
Journals to Turn Reading into Writing.

10.  Arguing Persuasively: Recognizing an Issue, Developing Your Stance, Creating an
Argumentative Thesis, Developing Reasons and Evidence, Acknowledging Other
Perspectives, Arguing Logically, Writing a Position Paper.

11. Designing Documents: Goals of Document Design, Format Choice, Layout, Type

Choice, Visuals, Sample Documents. Creating a Visual Argument: Presenting an Issue,
Providing Evidence.

12. Writing in Online Communities: Online Expectations, E-mail Conventions, Online
Communities, Web Pages, Avoiding Plagiarism and Behaving Ethically Online.

13.  Speaking Effectively: Oral Presentations, Preparing an Oral Presentation, Managing
Speech Anxiety, Fielding Questions.

14.  Academic Writing: Social and Natural Sciences: Goals of Writing in the Social and
Natural Sciences, Audiences in the Social and Natural Sciences, Writing Tasks in the
Social and Natural Sciences, Types of Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences,
Abstract, Informative Report, Lab Report, Research Report,

15. Public Writing: Goals of Public Writing, Public Audiences, Public Writing Tasks, Types
of Public Writing, Public Flyer, Letter to the Editor, Oral Presentation.

16. Researching and Writing: Beginning Your Research, Types of Research Writing,
Developing a Research Question, Developing a Preliminary Thesis, Creating a Research
File and a Timeline, Reading and Notetaking, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and
Synthesizing.

Textbook(s):

•         Writer's Companion - The Longman by Chris M. Anson, Robert A. Schwegler and
Marcia F. Muth, Pearson Longman, 4^th Edition (2007) . ISBN10: 0-20556-252-3

Reference Material:

•         Technical English: Writing, Reading, and Speaking by Pickett and Laster. 8^th Edition

•         The Technical Writer's Companion byAlred, Gerald, Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E.
Oliu, 3^rd Edition. ISBN 0-312-25978-6.

Note: This content is obtained from official documents of University of Sargodha and applied on BS Computer Science for Main Campus, Sub Campuses, and Affiliated Colleges.