Re: sugestions needed for teaching a introductory college course in technical writin

["Lurker writer" <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

With such an open-ended question, I hope you're prepared to receive a 
vareity of responses (probably some ambiguous ones, too).

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but check out the new "Technical Writing 
for Dummies" book. It provides a pretty good overview of the skills and 
knowledge needed to be successful in the technical writing field.

Some resources that may help you:

1. "Mastering Technical Writing" by Joseph Mancuso
2. "Technical Editing" by Judith Tarutz
3. "Dynamics in Document Design" by Karen Shriver

"Managing Your Documentation Projects" is considered by many to be one the 
field's holy books, but I'd pass on it for an introductory course on 
technical writing. Would be good for a course on "Documentation Project 
Management" though.

Good luck.


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