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In helping students learn to write effective
documents in professional contexts, Introduction to Principles
of Professional Writing teaches students to:
- understand how the context, audience,
and purpose can alter a text's creation and reception,
- analyze readers, define objectives, and
understand, situations to determine
what to emphasize and downplay in messages so as to create the
most appropriate and effective text,
- learn, practice, and develop a range of
rhetorical strategies that can help students write concise, audience-
and context-appropriate proposals, memos, reports,
- critique various communication strategies
in terms of their effectiveness, and
- produce informative and persuasive messages
for a range of audiences in a variety of situation.
This course assumes that evaluating written
documents and engaging in writing activities are paramount to
learning to write effectively. In light of these assumptions,
students will analyze the rhetorical strategies of business documents
and practice modeling and expanding upon these strategies in
their own correspondences.
Although the course may address issues
of oral communication, the primary focus will be on learning
and practicing strategies to generate written documents in non-academic
contexts. Students will produce several
documents on their own and in groups of 25 students throughout
the course.
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