Professional Writing Emphasis

Strong organization, writing, and rhetorical skills are essential for business success. The professional writing emphasis is functional, practical, and useful for people working in business, industry, science, and government. Based on standard writing skills, this emphasis also involves designing and editing both print and Web documents.

Managers report spending a quarter of their time reading reports and another quarter of their time writing reports. Enhance your ability to create documents that are clear, easy to navigate, and effective in producing the results you want.

Students must complete the Core courses plus the following Professional Writing courses.

Core:

  • ADM 515 Principles of Leadership
  • ADM 540 Principles of Administration
  • POS 543 Organizational Management
  • ENG 526 Advanced Professional Writing

Choice of:

One of the courses below or approved course in the area of: Research Methods, Statistics or Evaluation approved by your advisor

  • ADM 530 Principles and Strategies of Program Evaluation
  • POS 501 Research Methods and Analysis

Choose six from the following courses:

  • ENG 502 Advanced Technical Writing
  • ENG 517 Professional Editing
  • ENG 522 Writing and Rhetoric in Professional Communities
  • ENG 549 Information Design and Usability Testing
  • ENG 569 Project Management and Documentation Development
  • ENG 605 Proposal Writing
  • ENG 606 Issues in Professional and Technical Writing

Capstone class:

  •  ADM 689 Capstone project

 

Emphasis Contact

Gregory Larkin 928-523-0251
Gregory.Larkin@nau.edu





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