Professional Writing

Catalog description

Professional Writing emphasizes the techniques and strategies for engaging with and writing a variety of documents encountered in contemporary work environments. The course stresses careful, critical thinking, word choice, sentence structure, document design, writing for a potentially diverse audience, and the new role artificial intelligence plays in daily workplace writing. Students will practice the writing of clear, effective, and unified documents, including but not limited to emails, proposals, reports, and instructions. The design of aesthetically-pleasing, accessible, and effectively organized documents is highly emphasized in this course. A major component of Professional Writing is understanding the role of formatting and rhetoric in writing for specific purposes. Ultimately, this course prepares students to enter into any workplace writing situation with confidence and grace.