T.C. 5160 - Graduate Writing Seminar

1 credit (Hrs: 1 Lec.)

This course or T.C. 5150 is required of all Science & Engineering graduate students in both the thesis and the non-thesis options. This one-credit course will provide a practical guide for improving all technical writing, with a special emphasis on preparing documents for publication in peer-reviewed journals. This course is taught over a single weekend and includes in-class lecture-discussion followed by out-of-class writing assignments due within one month of the completion of the lecture portion of the course. Final grades will be based on class attendance, class participation, and the writing assignments. Grading is by Pass/Fail only.

Prerequisite(s): GRE Writing score of 4.0 or greater, or WRIT 321W or 322W with grade of B or better. Course generally offered 2nd semester.