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