LANG 2061

Professional Writing for the Workplace

Course Description

LANG2061 equips students with essential workplace writing skills by emphasizing strategic approaches to craft clear, persuasive, and contextually appropriate messages for a variety of professional settings.

Highlights

  • Combines theory and practice in workplace communication
  • Focuses on real-world authenticity, reflecting workplace communication dynamics and challenges
  • Includes checkpoints to support steady progress

Assessments

  • Individual Workplace Scenario Project: Create professional documents for a hypothetical startup, explaining writing choices for audience, purpose, and context. (spoken and written components)
  • Group Genre Analysis Project: Analyze a chosen workplace genre, applying strategies to build transferable skills for future professional contexts. (spoken and written components)

Target Students

  • BBA or BSc students admitted in 2023-24
  • Prerequisite(s): LANG1403 or LANG1404
  • Exclusion(s): LANG2063

Learning Experience

Student Testimonial

“I have learned to differentiate my writing according to my audience. Coming from a country where English is, at best, my 4th language, I learned only one writing style. But this course has helped me in consciously choosing medium, mode, vocab and some writing techniques. Thank you.”

Course outcomes

  • Practical workplace writing skills that are adaptable across industries, enabling you to craft professional workplace communication with clarity and impact
  • Confidence in analyzing and producing audience-focused messages by applying communication theories and strategies to real-world scenarios