WRCM 202 - Business and Professional Writing

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
In this project-driven course, students will analyze the purposes, audiences, and conventions of workplace communication. During the semester, students will learn how to compose, design, and revise a variety of professional materials, including cover letters, business proposals, personal statements, and professional websites, using discursive and non-discursive (e.g., graphical, spatial, sonic) modes of communication. The goal is to develop an effective style of communication that is adaptable to a wide range of rhetorical situations, such as interviews, job and graduate school applications, and portfolios. In the final project for this course, students will have the opportunity to conduct service work, as they will execute a proposal project that capitalizes on their unique skill sets and addresses an exigence in the community. Overall, the class is designed to foster both creativity and genre-awareness in professional contexts.