Professional Writing

Introduction to professional writing genres and strategies across a range of fields, with emphasis on producing ethical, effective, and efficient communications. Assignments may include career materials (resume, cover letter, personal statements), a research report, and a multimodal project. In this writing-intensive and participation-driven course, we will collaboratively examine the contexts for and rhetorical dimensions of a range of professional documents' primarily, those you produce throughout the semester. Major assignments include a set of career materials (resume, cover letter, and/or personal statements), a research report analyzing workplace writing, and a multimodal project presenting a professional passion in a form of your choice (podcast, video, infographic, etc.). As we engage in this work, we will explore the nature of professionalism and strategies for producing ethical, effective, and efficient professional writing.