ENGL 23202 - Introduction To Business Writing

Designed for students pursuing business careers. Practice in clarity, correctness, organization, and audience adaptation in business letters, interoffice memos, and informal and formal reports. Some emphasis on business research methods, research design, collaborative writing, and oral communication.

Preparation for Course
P: ENGL 13100 or 14000 with a Grade of C or Better.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Acquire rhetorical knowledge including the ability to focus on purposes and develop strategies to persuade and inform audiences in workplace and civic settings; to use audience analysis and usability testing to develop appropriate responses to different rhetorical situations; to adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality; to write in business and organizational genres.
2. Acquire critical thinking, reading, and writing including the ability to use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking and communicating; to manage a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources; to understand the relationships among language knowledge and power within academic, workplace and civic settings and to articulate a statement of their identities as organizational writers in such settings; and to recognize the importance of professional organizations.
3. Acquire Writing Processes knowledge including the use of multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text; the development of flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading; learning to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility of doing one’s own work in group settings; participate in collaborative and social processes and genres that require the ability to critique one’s own and other’s works; and using a variety of technologies to address a range of rhetorical situations, producing texts in a variety of media.
4. Acquire knowledge of Conventions including the ability to follow and adapt the conventions and formats for different kinds of business and organizational genres; to write with the clarity, concision, and correctness of syntax, grammar, punctuation and spelling expected by business and organizational audiences; to follow and adapt the conventions of organizing, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics; and to practice appropriate means of documenting work according to workplace and professional standards.