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In helping students learn to
write effective documents in professional contexts, Introduction
to Principles of Professional Writing aims to teach 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 2-5 students
throughout the course.
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