Professional Writing

Catalog description

This course is designed to reorient students to the basic elements of writing expected at the graduate level, with a primary focus on APA, scholarly tone, sentence structure, grammar, composition and avoiding plagiarism. This course requires students to practice brainstorming, free-writing, sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, the organization of ideas and addressing 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 and assist students as they progress through the MSW degree program. This course is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.