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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENL 600 - Technical and Business Writing

3 credits
Introduces students to the many purposes, audiences, forms, and formats of technical documents and professional correspondence. They will receive practice in writing and designing a variety of documents to achieve worthwhile content, sensible organization, and readable style. Focus will be on techniques of audience-and-use analysis to adjust a message’s level of technicality to the needs and background of its audience. Focus throughout is on writing as a deliberate process of deliberate decisions.