Engl 507. Writing and Analyzing Professional Documents

Introduction to the theory and practice of planning, preparing, and presenting information in written, oral, and visual forms prepared for business, science, industry, and government. Guided readings. Team projects. Individual projects.

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of writing and analyzing documents prepared in business, science, industry, and government. This semester we will survey genres from professional contexts, reviewing examples of communication products, read case studies and discussions of how the genre functions in practice, and students will produce instances of each in individual and small-group collaborations.