Coauthorship is enhanced by listening and respect.

Professional Writing: Workplace Communication, AI, and Career Readiness

This course is an introduction to the techniques and types of professional writing, including correspondence and reports. It is designed to help strengthen skills of effective business and professional communication in both oral and written modes. Students are introduced to the discourse conventions, genres….

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The image should be of a photorealistic image of a massive oak tree. The branches of the tree say "Creative Methods, Design Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Quantitative Research Methods, Mixed Research Methods, Scholarly Research Methods" The trunk of the tree should have a heart that says "Human Knowledge" underneath the tree you can see roots. And the roots say Research Genres Canonical Texts Scholarly Conversations

Research Methods for Professional and Academic Inquiry

Kenneth Bruffee (1984), drawing on philosopher Michael Oakeshott’s (1962) concept of “the conversation of mankind,” now “humankind,” likens learning the languages of academic and professional research to being a traveler dropped

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In The Coming Wave, Suleyman and Bhaskar (2023) argue that advanced technologies like AI and bioengineering are unleashing a “wave” of transformation that cannot be stopped or fully contained. The challenge, they say, is not to hold back the wave but to learn to steer and contain its most dangerous consequences. In writing studies, we worry about the coming wave—the coming tsunami. We worry that humans will lose agency as GenAI reduces the economic value of human writing. Because our catechism affirms that writing is thinking, that writing is a powerful way of learning, and because of longstanding scholarly conversations about the “law of less work” (Hull, 1943; David, Vassena, & Bijleveld, 2024), we fear this wave will diminish human agency. As Ong (2002) reminds us, without literacy, cultures revert to oral modes of communication. We can imagine superintelligent machines speaking in Neuralese and exploring the universe, while most of humankind—those who shirk the work of being knowledge workers—will be left huddled around campfires telling stories of days gone by.

Writing with AI

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This course invites you to explore how generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping creativity, authorship, composing, learning, copyright, and work—and what that means for human agency. We will study writing as a technology, from cuneiform tablets to typewriters, and how each tool’s affordances and constraints…

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Professional Writing — Introduction to the Course (ENC 2251)

Learn how professional communicators write, design, and present information with clarity and authority while developing the workplace competencies needed in an AI-infused economy. You will practice applying stylistic principles,

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Courses – Writing Commons

Professional Writing: Workplace Communication, AI, and Career Readiness

Research Methods for Professional and Academic Inquiry

Writing with AI

Professional Writing — Introduction to the Course (ENC 2251)

Academic Writing – How to Write for the Academic Community

Professional Writing – How to Write for the Professional World – Guide to Professional and Business Communication

Credibility and Authorial Authority – How to Develop Readers’ Trust and Respect

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