Professional Writing

Catalog description

This course is a pre-requisite course for students wishing to enroll in MPH-500 . It is designed to reorient students with the basic elements of writing expected at the graduate level with a primary focus on APA, scholarly tone, sentence structure, grammar, composition, and plagiarism. This course requires students to do proactive brainstorming, free-writing, sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, the organization of ideas, and the several types of purposes of, and audiences for, general essays. Students will build on these basic skills by planning, writing, and revising essays, and experiencing writing and reading as a multi-step process. In addition, students will also learn the process and value of peer-to-peer editing. Through activities, application, and reflection, the materials covered in this course will support students as they progress through the MPH program.