Course Overview
This course will introduce students to the core professional writing and reading skills for success at BCIT and in the workplace. The course gives an overview of the following topics: common writing errors, technical writing basics, effective organization and document design, and professional reading and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify and correct major grammatical, structural and lexical errors.
- Demonstrate control over sentence structure errors in own writing.
- Use a wide range of sentence patterns appropriately in written tasks.
- Use appropriate vocabulary to express message clearly.
- Draft, revise and edit paragraphs.
- Use concrete content vocabulary.
- Review and practice the basic components of effective technical paragraph writing and some multi-paragraph assignments.
Effective as of Fall 2018
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