CSE/ISE 300 Writing (Fall 2008)
Course Description
This is an undergraduate course on technical writing for Computer Science and Information Systems. The focus of this course is on writing technical documents for the computing field. Besides writing and correcting documents, this course will include lectures on topics of English style, proper word usage, and composition rules. In particular, we will spend a fair amount of time in class writing first drafts of documents, which will be corrected before they are submitted for grading.
This is a 1 credit course for which you will receive a grade from among A,
B, C, D, or F. The grade will be
based upon scores from in-class exams and writing exercises in addition to the
major submitted papers for the course.
Three papers of sizes one page, two pages, and four to six pages are
planned. The in-class exams and
exercises will determine 15% of your course grade and the three papers together
will count for 85% of your grade.
Administrative Matters For Prof. Wittie’s Section
- Time: Tue 12:50-1:45PM
- Location: Room 154 Light Engineering
- Required Books: The Elements of Style, 4th edition (2000), Authors: Strunk and White $10 (or $4 2007 reprint by Coyote)
- Online Technical Writing, Author: David A. McMurrey http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/
- Recommended Textbook: Writing for Computer Science, 2nd edition (2004). Author: Zobel $30 ($24 used)
- Instructor: Professor Larry Wittie
- Office: CS Building, Room 1308
- Phone: 631-632-8456
- Email: lw@ic.sunysb.edu
- Office Hours: 2:00-3:30PM Tue & Thu or by appointment
- Course Homepage: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse300
Special Needs
If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, I would urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS), Room 133 Humanities, 632-6748/TDD. DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation of disability is confidential.