ENG 236 - Advanced Professional Writing in the Workplace

1. Writing skills: active verbs, specific details, imperative tone, parallelism, and information literacy
2. Workplace communication skills: memorandums, business letters, emails, blog posts, etc.
3. Outline development
4. Graphical integration: instructions, presentations
5. Technical project skills: research, reports, proposals
6. Audience and rhetorical situation
7. Workplace dynamics
8. Content production and delivery processes

1. Demonstrate practical writing skills for workplace proficiency. (1,2)
2. Create digital and written communication documents integrating data. (2)
3. Use organizational strategies to support the creation of written and digital workplace documents for a variety of purposes. (3)
4. Write effective instructions incorporating graphics to communicate with peers and clients. (4)
5. Locate and evaluate information to support workplace documents. (5)
6. Analyze and interpret information to support workplace documents. (5)
7. Integrate and document information to support workplace documents. (5)
8. 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)
9. Examine dynamics of organizational psychology in the workplace for the purpose of improving communication. (7)
10. Analyze written documents, digital content, and oral presentations in order to examine the content production and delivery processes of the workplace writer. (8)