Description
This course challenges students to solve problems using words and images. The course stresses both the writing process and the writing situation consisting of purpose, audience, and context. By learning to assess user needs, students develop critical thinking skills and use these skills to guide the writing process in a variety of communication forms. Students learn to gather and select information and to choose organizing and formatting strategies that result in clear written documents. Class activities include writing in a computerized writing lab; therefore, keyboarding skills are required.