<div dir="ltr">Hi there,<div><br></div><div>Here are the outcomes for our two service courses at Purdue University (ENGL 420 Business Writing and ENGL 421 Technical Writing, respectively).</div><div><br><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4f32c21a-7fff-01b1-2fe0-41fdd8402176"><b><u>ENGLISH 420 (Business Writing)</u></b><br>English 420 helps students become better business writers, across multiple global audiences, for multiple purposes, and in a variety of media. The work of the course is centered on presenting business-related material in written and visual formats that demonstrate an awareness of audience needs and contexts, effectively achieve implicit and explicit rhetorical purposes, and work to effectively address workplace, social, or global problems.<br><br><b>ENGL 420 (Business Writing) Course Outcomes</b><br>By the end of this course, students will be able to:<br><ul><li><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4f32c21a-7fff-01b1-2fe0-41fdd8402176">Use professional writing theories and approaches to analyze and solve business problems individually and in teams</span></li><li>Communicate market-driven information and organizational processes via a variety of media, genres, technologies, and presentations to a range of audiences and stakeholders</li><li>Innovate written conventions and expectations to both professional and non-professional audiences with changing organizational needs</li><li>Apply primary and secondary research methods and strategies to produce professional documents</li><li>Design documents with an awareness of the human needs of users, paying special attention to accessibility, cultural diversity, and global sensitivity</li><li>Interpret, contextualize, explain, and visualize data sets in specific rhetorical contexts or problems</li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><b><u>ENGLISH 421 (Technical Writing)</u></b><br>English 421 helps students become better technical writers, across multiple global audiences, for multiple purposes, and in a variety of media. The work of the course is centered on presenting technical material in written and visual formats that demonstrate an awareness of audience needs and contexts, effectively achieve implicit and explicit rhetorical purposes, and work to effectively address workplace, social, or global problems.<br> <br><b>ENGL 421 (Technical Writing) Course Outcomes</b><br>By the end of this course, students will be able to:<br><ul><li><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4f32c21a-7fff-01b1-2fe0-41fdd8402176">Use technical writing theories and approaches to analyze and solve problems individually and in teams</span></li><li>Communicate complex technical information, processes, and procedures via a variety of media, genres, technologies, and presentations to a range of audiences and stakeholders</li><li>Adapt written genre conventions and expectations to both technical and non-technical audiences with changing organizational needs</li><li>Apply primary and secondary research methods and strategies to produce technical documents</li><li>Demonstrate awareness of both the technical and human needs of users, paying special attention to accessibility, cultural diversity, and global sensitivity</li><li>Interpret, contextualize, explain, and visualize data sets in specific rhetorical contexts or problems</li></ul><div><br></div></span><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">_____________________________________________________________________<br><b><font size="4" color="#e69138">ALLEGRA W. SMITH</font></b><br>PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition<br>Assistant Director, Professional Writing Program<br>Department of English<br>Purdue University<br><a href="http://allegra-w-smith.com/" target="_blank">http://allegra-w-smith.com/</a><br><br><i><b><font color="#e69138">Pronouns: she, her, hers</font></b></i></div></div><div><i><b><font color="#e69138">Make an appointment: </font></b></i><font color="#e69138"><b><i><a href="https://allegra-w-smith.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank">https://allegra-w-smith.youcanbook.me/</a></i></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><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">craniac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><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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