ENGL 1225 - Applied Communications I

4.5 Credits

This innovative course prepares students for the communication challenges of today’s often technology-based workplace by surveying business and technical communication principles in a field-specific environment. Skills learned include writing clearly and concisely; reading and analyzing contextualized workplace documents; applying the writing process to a variety of contextualized workplace documents; and communicating effectively, verbally and nonverbally, in typical workplace situations.

Prerequisites: (1) College-level reading and writing proficiency or assessment testing or ENGL 0960

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Demonstrate rhetorical awareness in workplace communications, identifying how documents meet the needs of an audience, fulfill a purpose, and utilize a format that is accessible and easy to understand.
Read and analyze contextualized workplace documents.
Construct and present messages tailored to a variety of contextualized workplace situations.
Design, write, revise, and edit unified and coherent field-specific messages, using appropriate graphic elements.
Express ideas clearly, logically, and accurately in written and oral messages using appropriate conventions.

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