This course is designed to develop students’ oral and written communication skills by writing, editing, and reviewing various forms of written technical communications. These will include workplace correspondence, short reports, and projects proposals, amongst other things. An emphasis will be placed on the importance and role of ethics in science, including the legal implications of plagiarism and intellectual property. Students will also use MS Word applications to import graphics, charts, and tables into a document as well as apply standard formatting conventions, desktop publishing and mail merge functions.