[ATTW-L] Course Learning Objectives for Introductory tech comm courses

[Stuart Selber]

From the service course at Penn State. Yes, there are 15! Buckle up haha. Stuart

Students in the course can expect to:
Discover and understand the discourse features that distinguish their disciplinary and institutional communities from others.
Discover and specify the purposes of their writing.
Develop a range of writing processes appropriate to various writing tasks.
Identify their readers and describe the characteristics of their readers in a way that forms a sound basis for deciding how to write to them.
Invent the contents of their communications through research and reflection.
Arrange material to raise and satisfy readers’ expectations, using both conventional and rhetorical patterns of organization.
Reveal the organization of their communications by using forecasting and transitional statements, headings, and effective page and document design.
Observe appropriate generic conventions and formats for technical documents.
Design and use tables, graphs, and technical illustrations.
Compose effective sentences.
Evaluate their documents to be sure that the documents fulfill their purpose and to ensure that they can be revised if necessary.
Collaborate effectively with their peers in a community of writers who provide feedback on each others’ work and occasionally write together.
Write several specific kinds of documents that recur in technical, scientific, and other communities.
Employ computer technology effectively in the solution of communication problems.
Communicate in an ethically responsible manner.

> On Apr 2, 2020, at 5:59 PM, Lisa Melonçon <meloncon.research at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Mark -
> 
> I'll send you some field-wide data off list on this very thing....but the introductory course (both as seen in the "service course" and in the introductory course to a degree program) align pretty darn closely with field-wide program outcomes as reported here: https://cptsc.org/committees/assessment/ <https://cptsc.org/committees/assessment/>
> 
> Lisa
> 
> Lisa Melon <>çon, PhD
> Co-Editor, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__journals.upress.ufl.edu_rhm&d=DwMFaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=pixVoNlEUATCd42x07Q5ArPXRPzmxr7XUhwZ3R0VPL8&m=Shj3vbvM5sT5RXbA2Q4DPfyv9-MYu0r9-86YpB-c3Jo&s=kHZQlabmFC-di_7ldUObKDW_e4L69mcKBtbd9nAiW_U&e=>)
> Series Editor: Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/ <https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/>)
> Professor, Technical & Professional Communication
> Department of English
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> University of South Florida
> 4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311
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> Phone: 803-370-0008 
> Email: Meloncon dot research [at] gmail dot com OR meloncon [at ]usf dot edu
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> Pronouns: she/her/they
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:52 PM Mark Crane <craniac at gmail.com <mailto:craniac at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have two weeks to fine tune the learning outcomes for our introductory tech comm course.  I would love to see your outcomes, if you have access to them.  I realize these are chaotic and busy times, thank you.
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> Lisa Melonçon, PhD
> Co-Editor, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm <http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm>)
> Book Series Editor, Foundations and Innovations in TPC (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/ <https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/>)
> Professor, Technical Communication, Department of English
> University of South Florida
> 4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311
> Tampa, FL 33620-5550
> Phone: 803-370-0008
> Email: meloncon.research at gmail.com <mailto:meloncon.research at gmail.com> or meloncon at usf.edu <mailto:meloncon at usf.edu>
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