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A Brush-Up From The Neck Up
SYLLABUS
CTTA400 & CTTA500
(A Six-Hour Seminar)
Course Description
This course teaches students how to transform proper grammar rules, punctuation rules, usage rules, vocabulary rules, and page construction, into clear, concise, accurate, and factual reports. This learning experience includes a review and evaluation of common errors in report writing. The student will start with examination and applications of proper word usage and proper sentence structure. The student will then examine and apply proper paragraph construction and finish with report writing exercises.
Target Audience
This course is intended for Private Detectives and Protective Agents as well as Police Officers and anyone interested in a short concentrated course on writing skills.
Course Focus
The focus of this course is on resurrecting and reviewing basic guidelines for writing that were learned, but lost and forgotten over time. This course will review the basics of writing proficiency and provide the student with many useful tools to take back to work and use immediately.
It is a brush-up from the neck up because writing skills are stored in the brain but often times fail to be recalled when needed during report writing. We hope that this learning experience will enlighten and encourage the practitioner to place greater emphasis on his or her writing skills.
Course Goals
This course addresses a comprehensive list of content goals. These goals relate to several performance objectives. The following list has not been force ranked in order of appearance in the course.
1. Write complete sentences
2. Construct clear sentences
3. Write unified paragraphs
4. Write concise messages
5. Proofread documents
6. Identify the who, what, where, and when
7. Determine when to use how and why
8. Apply punctuation rules
9. Apply grammar rules
10. Apply spelling rules
11. Apply capitalization rules
12. Apply abbreviation rules
13. Apply number-usage rules
14. Analyze audiences for level of writing
15. Develop word choice skills
Course Evaluation
This is a pass/fail course. Students are expected to complete all assignments, which will be evaluated based on quality of work (neatness, accuracy, proper format), class participation, and “timely” completion. The issuance of a certificate of completion will be determined from the student’s performance on all assigned projects including oral presentations when required. The instructor reserves the right to withhold issuance of certificates of completion, until the student completes the assigned work to the satisfaction of the instructor.