COM-341 Technical Writing trains students to produce documents of a technical nature commonly found in a business context. The final project is the creation of a technical proposal, since technical writers often produce such proposals working independently or as part of a team, with assignments also focused on recommendation reports as another core type of technical writing.
Technical documents grounded in business context
The course frames technical writing specifically within a business context, ensuring the documents students learn to produce — proposals, recommendation reports — reflect genuine workplace technical writing demands, not academic writing conventions.
The proposal as a culminating deliverable
COM-341 builds toward creating a technical proposal as its final project, since proposals are a genuinely common and consequential technical writing task, requiring students to persuasively and clearly present a technical plan or solution.
Key topics in COM341
- Business-context technical writing
- Writing technical proposals
- Recommendation reports
- Working independently and collaboratively on technical documents
- Clarity and precision in technical communication
- Structuring technical documents for business audiences
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Worked example: a recommendation report versus a technical proposal
- Recommendation report: Analyzes options and recommends a specific course of action based on evidence
- Technical proposal: Persuasively presents a plan or solution to secure approval or resources for it
- Lesson: COM-341 teaches that different technical writing deliverables serve genuinely different business purposes, requiring different structures and persuasive approaches
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Frequently asked questions
COM-341 focuses on producing standard business technical documents — proposals and recommendation reports — with a fairly standard prerequisite chain (ENG-123 or ENG-121/ENG-200), while COM-343 more specifically emphasizes synthesizing complex technical information through collaboration with subject matter experts and assessing documents against stakeholder requirements. The two courses cover overlapping technical writing skills but with somewhat different emphases — COM-341 on document types and structure, COM-343 on stakeholder-driven collaborative synthesis — so students should confirm with their program advisor which fits their specific degree requirements.
A technical proposal requires synthesizing many of technical writing's hardest skills at once — clearly explaining a technical plan or solution, persuasively justifying it, and structuring the argument for a business decision-maker who needs to approve it — making it a genuinely comprehensive capstone deliverable for the course. COM-341 uses the proposal as its final project because succeeding at it demonstrates the full range of technical writing competency the course aims to build.