TCID 374 Creating Intelligent Content
Intelligent content is all around us, working behind the scenes to produce instructions that come with our lawnmowers, explanations for medical devices, and user manuals for laptops, to name just a few examples. We create intelligent content through structured writing/authoring, which is both the creation of content and the method for managing this content. Because structured authoring creates controls for analyzing, organizing, and displaying content, it is key to publication workflows in organizations that provide a large amount of content. While learning a standardized approach to writing structured
content, students also learn to apply rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking that results in content that is intelligent because it is inclusive, adaptable, creates patterns of reuse, and results in consistency of content across documents/publication outputs.
Recommended: TCID 373 Writing and Designing for the Web.
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4 Undergraduate credits
Effective May 2, 2023 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Explain the capabilities and characteristics of intelligent content
- Demonstrate the principles of single-source writing that underlie intelligent content, structured authoring, and content management
- Create structured content that is inclusive, accessible, non-sexist, and anti-racist
- Produce content structures in the form of topics by using a text file and a software editing tool
- Apply a rhetorical approach to create content structures that adapt to human information needs
- Apply ¿layers of abstraction¿ to the creation of content structures