Fundamentals of Professional Writing

Fundamentals of Professional Writing

Term
Online
Course Number
PROW 100 621
Course Code
PROW100621
Course Key
70074
Instructor
Primary Program
Course Note
Special session: 10/29/2020 to 12/22/2020
Course Description
Using an immersive, scenario-based teaching style, this course is an introduction to critically analyzing any writing situation and making your writing a purposeful act of communication. You engage in a series of authentic writing scenarios and a range of activities that provide hands-on practice and instructor coaching and feedback. Coursework includes targeted exercises for improving grammar, mechanics, clarity, precision, and persuasiveness. This collaborative, problem-based learning approach provides you with the strategies and flexibility you need to adapt to an ever-changing multimedia communication environment.Fundamentals of Professional Writing serves as the foundation course for the Certificate in Professional Writing. It introduces the basic concepts and vocabulary that students will draw upon in all future writing tasks and build upon throughout the remainder of the certificate.
Subject Area Vocab