Writing with AI – Introduction to the Course
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Rhetoric & Entrepreneurship
Welcome to the schedule for Professional Writing, Spring 2021, an undergraduate course on business writing. The schedule is divided into four major modules: The Business Model Canvas The first module involves a three-week introduction to the nine core business elements that constitute the BMC (Business Model Canvas). The Customer Discovery Process, Design Thinking, Venture Design ...
Courses
At Writing Commons, we value the intellectual work of teachers, academic inquiry, and academic freedom. We understand many faculty in the U.S. are required by their institutions to develop their classes in course management systems such as Blackboard or Canvas. And, we recognize there are some advantages to course management tools. However, these systems undermine ...
Workplace Writing
Workplace Writing refers to the texts and composing processes employees produce in workplace contexts a syllabus, a course of study, a curriculum, commonly required of undergraduate students in the U.S. higher education system a style of writing that focuses on concision, design, and visual language: Technical Writing Prose Style* *Alternative Titles: Workplace Writing may also ...
Fake News: An Undergraduate Composition Course
Fake News is a themed undergraduate English composition course on research writing. This course aims to help students develop an understanding and practice of empathetic information literacy—a method for sorting out truths and falsehoods while taking into account both intellect and affect, thoughts and feelings. This annotated syllabus presents assignment instructions, teaching notes, and unit ...
Professional & Technical Writing Course
This course has four major projects: Project 1: Tailoring a Document for a Specific Audience You will work individually to develop a document for a specific audience, purpose, and rhetorical context. For this project, you may be asked to: This project emphasizes: Along with your documents, you’ll submit a project completion memo that reflects on ...
“Get It In Writing”: New Survey Reveals Paradoxes About Workplace Writers
“Get It In Writing”:
New Survey Reveals Paradoxes About Workplace Writers
by Wilma Davidson and Thorold (Tod) Roberts
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How relevant are strong writing skills on the job? What can college students do -- in and outside the classroom -- to become better writers? And what can aspiring professional and technical writers do to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace?
Cognitive, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Competencies
Cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal competencies, according to learning scientists, From this perspective, a writer’s cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies determine how well a writer thinks and communicates with others. Synonyms: 21st century literacy; Workforce Competency; Deeper Learning Literacy, as defined by the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) community is an amalgam of many competencies, ...
Professional and Technical Communication: An Overview
Learning Outcomes:
- distinguish between technical and professional communication and writing
- understand the role of a technical communicator
- know how ethics, collaboration, context awareness, research, writing, and design connect in the creation of documentation
- Identify three artifacts of technical communication in the room. What do they have in common? What differs?
- Do a job search on a popular outlet (monster.com, local newspaper sites, stc.org, etc.) for technical writers. Trade out the term “technical” for
Georgia Tech MOOC
First-Year Composition 2.0
https://www.coursera.org/course/gtcomp
First-Year Composition 2.0 will help you to develop a better process and gain confidence in written, visual, and oral communication and to create and critique documents and presentations in college, in the workplace, and in your community. You will draft and revise the following assignments: a personal essay, an image, and an oral presentation.
