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May 03, 2024
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ENGL 3866 - Introduction to Professional Writing (3) Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 ENGL 1101H ENGL 1102 ENGL 1102H This course provides an overview of a range of the possible professions in writing, supported by in-class presentations by invited speakers who will provide insight into their work and workplace through talk, examples, and class discussion. Assignments for the course will involve reflective and exploratory writing in and about the various genres presented, and emphasis will be placed on rhetorical variation. The writing professions explored in class may include activist writing, college teaching in rhetoric and composition, community writing, computers and writing, editing, environmental writing, free-lance writing, grant writing, literary journalism, magazine writing, new media writing, nonfiction writing, professional writing, marketing and advertising, publicity, publishing, medical writing, science writing, teaching English as a second language, screenwriting, teaching writing in public schools, technical writing, writing about technology, writing for nonprofits, and/or others.
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