Courses Offered
ENGL 203: Introduction To Research For Professional Writers
Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, including electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing, surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting research.
Introduction to Research for Professional Writers is offered every fall and spring semester.
ENGL 306: Introduction To Professional Writing
Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in the arts and industry.
Introduction to Professional Writing is offered every fall and spring semester.
ENGL 309: Digital Design and Publishing
The development of the ability to write and design documents using electronic publishing technologies. Students will receive instruction in writing, graphics, and publishing software and will write, design, produce, and critique a number of publications.
Digital Design and Publishing is offered every fall and spring semester.
ENGL 406: Review Writing
Intensive practice in the writing of book, film, and theatre criticism, as well as reviews of musical programs and art exhibits. Readings in critics to serve as possible models. Audience analysis of newspapers and periodicals that would be potential markets.
Review Writing is offered on every other spring semester.
ENGL 419: Multimedia Writing
Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Typical genres include Web sites, interactive media, digital video, visual presentations, visual argument, and user documentation.
Multimedia Writing is offered every fall and spring semester.
ENGL 420: Business Writing
Workplace writing in networked environments for management contexts. Emphasizes organizational context, project planning, document management, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include management memos, reports, letters, e-mail, resumes (print and online), oral presentations.
Business Writing is offered every fall, spring, and summer semester.
ENGL 421: Technical Writing
Workplace writing in networked environments for technical contexts. Emphasizes context and user analysis, data analysis/display, project planning, document management, usability, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include technical reports, memos, documentation, and websites.
Technical Writing is offered every fall, spring, and summer semester.
ENGL 422: Writing For The Health And Human Sciences
This course applies rhetorical principles to writing in health, hospitality, nutrition, nursing and related fields in the Health and Human Sciences.
Writing for the Health and Human Sciences is offered every fall and spring semester.
ENGL 424: Writing For High Technology Industries
English 424 introduces students to the planning, production, and evaluation of software documentation and other writing tasks common to high tech environments. With a focus on user experience and usability testing, students will be able to study and implement writing solutions for users of an array of technological products and services.
Writing for High Technology Industries is offered every other fall semester.
ENGL 43201: Editing and Publishing
Editing and Publishing is a professional writing workshop that teaches students how to proofread, copyedit, substantive edit, and global edit documents. Students will learn how to navigate the publishing industry and work with authors on print, electronic, online, and multimedia documents.
Editing and Publishing is offered every other spring semester.
ENGL 433: Writing Proposals and Grants
Writing Proposals and Grants is a professional writing workshop that teaches students to write workplace proposals and grants in for-profit and not-for-profit companies and organizations. Students will also learn how to write business plans, a specialized form of proposal.
Writing Proposals and Grants is offered every spring semester.
ENGL 434: Science and Medical Writing
Science and Medical Writing is a professional writing workshop that teaches students how to write in medical and scientific fields. Students will learn the genres and conventions that are used by medical writers and science writers, as well as editors in these fields.
Science and Medical Writing is offered every other fall semester.
ENGL 488: Internship in Professional Writing
This course provides on-the-job experience in various kinds of professional writing, combined with a seminar in applied rhetoric. Students work in selected internship settings, participate in seminar discussions of their work, and read selections appropriate to their internship. Permission of instructor required.
Internship in Professional Writing is offered every spring semester.
ENGL 515: Advanced Professional Writing
A special topics course in advanced concepts for professional writing. Past course topics have included project management, crisis communications, digital production, and more.
Advanced Professional Writing is offered every fall semester.