Assignments and Grading Procedures

• Technical Writing Basics will help you think about audience, and the process and style aspects of technical writing. These assignments will be made from the textbook. Check the sample syllabus to see specific details.
  
  
• Technical Writing Techniques will give you chance to learn key elements of form and content that are typically found in short, medium, and long technical writings. These assignments will also be taken from the text.
  
  
• Technical Writing Applications will give you chance to apply the basics and techniques as you develop a variety of technical writing documents. The text will form the basis for these assignments, but specific details will be provided by the class instructor.

Each assignment has been given a designated number of points to be earned (Suggested values are shown in Table 1 below). The assigned values reflect the complexity of the tasks. Points earned will be converted to percentages and then to letter grades (Table 2 shows the letter grade ranges for percentages). Of course, individual instructors are free to change the suggested point values and/or grade ranges, but the tables give a general sense as to how the course work might be evaluated.