COMM-2283Designing and Writing Manuals
In this course, students will develop system documentation with primary emphasis on designing, creating, and maintaining user manuals. They will learn to write manuals, following a standard document development process. Although the focus is on user manuals, students will learn about other types of manuals. They will develop a manual for a client by analyzing the audience, analyzing tasks, interviewing subject matter experts, creating outlines, developing a table of content, index and glossary, and writing in drafts.