<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">From the service course at Penn State. Yes, there are 15! Buckle up haha. Stuart</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Students in the course can expect to:</div><div class="">
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc" class="">
<li class="MsoNormal">Discover and understand
the discourse features that distinguish their disciplinary and
institutional communities from others.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Discover and specify the
purposes of their writing.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop a range of writing
processes appropriate to various writing tasks.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Invent the contents of
their communications through research and reflection.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Arrange material to raise
and satisfy readers’ expectations, using both conventional and rhetorical
patterns of organization.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Reveal the organization of
their communications by using forecasting and transitional statements,
headings, and effective page and document design. <o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Observe appropriate
generic conventions and formats for technical documents.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Design and use tables,
graphs, and technical illustrations.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Compose effective
sentences.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Evaluate their documents
to be sure that the documents fulfill their purpose and to ensure that
they can be revised if necessary. <o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Collaborate effectively
with their peers in a community of writers who provide feedback on each
others’ work and occasionally write together.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Write several specific
kinds of documents that recur in technical, scientific, and other
communities.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Employ computer technology
effectively in the solution of communication problems.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Communicate in an
ethically responsible manner.<o:p class=""></o:p></li>
</ul>
<!--EndFragment--><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 2, 2020, at 5:59 PM, Lisa Melonçon <<a href="mailto:meloncon.research@gmail.com" class="">meloncon.research@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hey Mark -<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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: <a href="https://cptsc.org/committees/assessment/" class="">https://cptsc.org/committees/assessment/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lisa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class=""><a name="_MailAutoSig" class=""><span style="" class="">Lisa Melon</span></a>çon, PhD<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Co-Editor, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (<a href="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=" class=""><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" class="">http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm</span></a>)<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Series Editor: Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication (<a href="https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/" class="">https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/</a>)<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Professor, Technical & Professional Communication<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Department of English<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class=""><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usf.edu%2Farts-sciences%2Fdepartments%2Fenglish%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmeloncon%40usf.edu%7Ce75d9f5bc132485bcf3508d646846df3%7C741bf7dee2e546df8d6782607df9deaa%7C0%7C0%7C636773931959217946&sdata=YR50K7JF5CaXnwLcHdbXCvt8E%2BlXZgU0EIQLnwTOcOw%3D&reserved=0" class=""><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" class="">https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/english/</span></a><span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">University of South Florida<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Tampa, FL 33620-5550<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Phone: 803-370-0008 <span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Email: Meloncon dot research [at] gmail dot com OR meloncon [at ]usf dot edu<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class=""><a href="http://tek-ritr.com/" class="">http://tek-ritr.com</a><span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Twitter: @lmeloncon<span class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Pronouns: she/her/they</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" class=""><span class=""></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:52 PM Mark Crane <<a href="mailto:craniac@gmail.com" class="">craniac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hello,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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.</div></div>
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