WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS BUSINESS

1. Reflecting performance of this class
2. What you learned
3. Should but not learned
4. Group work experience

A. syllabus

writing for the professionS

business

Course Description

This course is designed to teach the student how to create professional technical documents for academia and the future workplace. In addition to creating documents, students will give at least three presentations to the class throughout the semester.

Course Goals

1. To learn how to construct documents in professional settings
2. Write effectively with a clear purpose in mind
3. Communicate effectively to a specified audience
4. Develop valuable research skills
5. Overcome any anxieties you have about professional writing
6. Have insightful class discussions
7. Finish the course as more confident writers

Instead of engaging in what some professors call “Peer Editing”, wherein hard copies of documents are exchanged with your classmates and summarily “edited”, we will conduct our Peer Editing by having each student pull up their document draft on the computer in front of the class so that the entire class may view it at once and offer constructive comments. In my experience, doing this for a few minutes provides more effective, immediate and useful feedback.