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Introduces the production of instructive, informative, and persuasive technical/professional documents aimed at well-defined and achievable outcomes. Focuses on presenting information using rhetorically appropriate style, design, vocabulary, structure, and visuals. Includes opportunities to gather, read, and analyze information and to learn a variety of strategies for producing accessible, usable, reader-centered deliverable documents that are clear, concise, and ethical. This course is part of Oregon Common Course Numbering. WR 227 and WR 227Z are equivalent. Prerequisites: WR 121, basic computer literacy, and intermediate word processing skills. Audit available. 

All courses in the writing program teach writing as a process, requiring revision over multiple drafts; require 2 instructor conferences; and include principles of citation.

Intended Outcomes for the Course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. ADAPT: Apply key rhetorical concepts through analyzing, designing, composing, and revising a variety of deliverable documents for technical/professional contexts
2. CONNECT: Engage in project-based research, applying appropriate methods of inquiry for clearly defined purposes (e.g., user experience research and client/organization research)
3. ADAPT AND CONNECT: Collaborate with various stakeholders to develop and apply flexible and effective strategies for managing projects
4. INQUIRE: Develop and adapt document design and composition strategies to meet the demands of diverse clients, organizations, and multicultural audiences
5. REFLECT: Examine and respond to individual and professional ethical responsibilities across organizational contexts

For more information, please go to the Course Content and Outcome Guide for this course.

A note on this hybrid class

It is important to remember that the course is functionally a web course with weekly in-person activities. Students will be expected to spend ten hours each week working on weekly assignments and completing prerequisite readings from the OER textbook. Each weekly module will open at 6:00 am each Monday. Students should complete the week's reading assignments before the class meeting on Friday. 

Microphone and webcam for instructor conferences via Zoom.