English 302    Business Communication
Locker, Kitty. Business and Administration Communication. 6th Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
This is the textbook from which a number of our in-class assignments will be taken; it provides descriptive scenarios of business / technical communication that serve as good examples for understanding the concepts we will discuss in class. • text homepage
Kostelnick, Charles and David D. Roberts. Designing Visual Language. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
If you're looking for some help with basics of visual design, this book does a good job of explaining visual rhetoric concepts and provides lots of examples. • text homepage
Musciano, Chuck, and Bill Kennedy. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. 5th ed. Upper Cambridge: O'Reilly and Associates, 2000.
This will be the only required text for the course, though you may want to purchase others for your own benefit or if you would like additional resources for your web development. • text homepage
Castro, Elizabeth. HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. 5th ed. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2002.
This is a good additional book for "visual learners" who might like more screenshots and such to help understand how different programming techniques affect a webpage. • text homepage
  
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