English - Professional Writing

Overview

The English - Professional Writing degree is offered by Northern Arizona University.

Student Learning Outcomes

• The rhetorical demands inherent in business, industry, and government settings.
• Ability to analyze the context of any document and write that document to fit the demands of its specific context
• Ability to plan a process to develop and complete any document and to carry out that plan, resulting in a successful document in its actual context
• Understanding of the writing and editing skills necessary to create and write documents with the characteristics demanded in professional settings: clarity, conciseness, coherence, and correctness.
• Ability to edit the documents of self and others, to bring those documents to a professional and/or publishable level, in terms of such things as clear sentences; logical and effective organization; powerful supporting graphics; and effective documentation.
• Ability to analyze problems in a business, industry, or government setting and design and conduct the research necessary to solve that problem and write an appropriate document detailing those results, such as a proposal or a set of procedures.
• Detailed understanding of specific types of documents required in business, industry, non-profits, and government, and the ability to generate those documents, either by one’s self or as a part of a team effort.
• Ability to write and edit professional content, such as proposals, specifications, reports, procedures, policies, white papers, training manuals, user documentation, and technical documentation
• Ability to write any of these for appropriate workplace publication media.