ENGL 335 - Business & Technical Writing

Institution:

King's College - Pennsylvania

Subject:

English

Description:

Business writing may be understood broadly as writing that persuades and enables decisions; technical writing may be understood broadly as writing that translates specialized knowledge for non-experts. Students in this course will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in business contexts, identify appropriate format models (letters, reports, etc.) for those situations, and adapt those models to the situation guided by study of rhetorical principles relating to audience analysis, visual communication, and ethics. Students will study internal communication contexts and models (memos, progress reports, internal proposals, evaluations, etc.) as well as external (white papers, press releases, instruction sets and manuals, etc.). Students will have opportunities to work in writing contexts specific to their majors and career aspirations.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Seminar

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Institution Website:

www.kings.edu

Phone Number:

(570) 208-5900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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