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Oct 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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ENG 236 - Advanced Professional Writing in the Workplace Description: Practical writing for the world of work. Includes business correspondence to technical reports. Analyze and create written digital products. Focus on understanding the audience for effective communication. Extensive critical reading and writing about workplace texts. Emphasis on fluency in critical writing. Includes research skills and writing a critical, documented report.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or ENG 101A or ENG 103 or ENG 136 . Reading Proficiency.
General Education Competency: Written Communication
Credits: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Writing skills: active verbs, specific details, imperative tone, parallelism, and information literacy
- Workplace communication skills: memorandums, business letters, emails, blog posts, etc.
- Outline development
- Graphical integration: instructions, presentations
- Technical project skills: research, reports, proposals
- Audience and rhetorical situation
- Workplace dynamics
- Content production and delivery processes
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate practical writing skills for workplace proficiency. (1,2)
- Create digital and written communication documents integrating data. (2)
- Use organizational strategies to support the creation of written and digital workplace documents for a variety of purposes. (3)
- Write effective instructions incorporating graphics to communicate with peers and clients. (4)
- Locate and evaluate information to support workplace documents. (5)
- Analyze and interpret information to support workplace documents. (5)
- Integrate and document information to support workplace documents. (5)
- Analyze the rhetorical situation of digital and written communication to adapt for internal and external audiences; hierarchies and roles; and for psychological, social, cultural, and political factors. (6)
- Examine dynamics of organizational psychology in the workplace for the purpose of improving communication. (7)
- Analyze written documents, digital content, and oral presentations in order to examine the content production and delivery processes of the workplace writer. (8)
Required Assessment: 5000 words of monitored writing
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