Master s Specialist Workshop Information and Document Design Modules 4-6
Writing Skills
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Course work will consider visual rhetoric, including the principles of visual perception and how these principles apply to document design.
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Master s Specialist Workshop Information and Document Design Modules 4-6
Master's Specialist Workshop: Information and Document Design (Modules 4-6)
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| The course will consider how information can be designed to allow users to acquire the knowledge that they need in order to perform tasks and how documents can be designed to facilitate accessibility to information. Requirements include the redesign of several documents that demonstrate solid application of theoretical principles. This course teaches a user-centric approach to document design. First, it examines cognitive principles that describe how readers and users of documents (print and online) perceive, process, and recall information. These principles evolve into a body of guidelines to help technical communicators design effective information products. Second, it develops user analysis skills. Students must have completed Introduction to Technical Writing for Industry (JER 233) and Intermediate Technical Writing (JER 234), and Advanced Technical Writing (JER 235) or their equivalent. [Note: the three courses mentioned above are those required for the Certificate in Technical Writing, JER 900.] If you have the equivalent, you must furnish evidence to the instructor of the equivalency by providing a written proposal that explains how you qualify for this study. Required Textbook: Kostelnik, C., and Roberts, D. D. (1998). Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 0205200222:Product Link on Barnes & Noble.com.
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Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to 1. Perform audience and purpose analyses for user-centered documents. 2. Perform information and task analyses. 3. Understand and apply principles of visual design to documents. 4. Understand, apply, and create effective page and document designs. 5. Choose typography, headings, and other design structures to facilitate accessibility. 6. Package and deliver effective documents (both print and online). |
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You must submit a portfolio for each module that you take as follows: Module 4, Portfolio 4: Document 1: Visual rhetoric and audience analysis Document 2: Visual analysis of documents Document 3: Visual rhetoric of a document Module 5, Portfolio 5: Document 1: Information design-1 (information hierarchy) Document 2: Information design-2 (page design techniques) Document 3: Information design-3 (typography / design structures) Module 6, Portfolio 6: Document 1: Redesign strategies Document 2: Redesigned document and report Each module consists of a series of assignments leading toward the preparation and submission of a portfolio of work, including analyses, illustration, preparation, and delivery of targeted documents. In addition, there will be weekly exercises and preparatory work. There will be no final examination; the portfolio will serve as the final examination. |
Contact Hours: 50
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