Introduction to the Course

This course prepares students for workplace writings. Specific genres include: instructions, proposals, memos, reports, job letters and résumés, Web design, use of graphics, and document design.  Students also learn how to analyze audiences and use rhetorical strategies to target them. Communicating with cross-cultural audiences is also one of the focuses.  Other skills students will learn in the course are skills used throughout the writing process from invention to editing and research skills for academic purpose. The course is writing intensive but also teaches students oral presentation skills. Students have to participate in group discussion, web board response, online research, and in-class exercises.