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This course provides engineering, information technology and sciences professionals with the tools to write effective documents. Identify how the intended audience for a document affects its style, format and content. Distinguish central concepts from details in structuring writing, organizing your thoughts and developing them logically to build evidence and make a persuasive argument, write clearly and concisely, and self-edit. You'll submit frequent writing assignments online, act as peer editors, participate in class discussions, and read and analyze class texts. Topics include the challenges of scientific writing, writing summaries, identifying and correcting common writing problems, creating persuasive proposals, and revising documents for maximum effectiveness.
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