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RHET 490/4280 - Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing (3 cr.)


Prerequisites
  RHET 1020  or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed; SSE major or instructor approval

Description
This course strengthens and refines advanced scientific and technical communication skills for both academic and professional non-academic environments. Students develop capstone level proficiency in organizing, refining and formatting scientific reports, senior theses, articles for publication in scientific journals, and technical reports for the workplace. In addition, students build on basic oral and visual presentation skills acquired at the 300 level, in order to improve their performance in the oral defense of their theses in their science and engineering majors, and acquire greater competitiveness in the job market.


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