19-325 Technology and Policy Writing for Lay Audiences

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of persuasive, accurate writing about technical, highly specialized information for a general audience, based on an axiom attributed to Albert Einstein If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough. Readings will be selected from writing style guides, and from nonfiction and science fiction literature. Course work will include the translation of data and journal articles into prose for a sophisticated general audience, as well as original writing.

Prerequisites: none listed

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