WRI 150 - Writing in the Workplace
Course Description
Successful communicators know that effective writing is essential in a variety of professions. You will develop your writing skills through working on correspondence, such as letters, memos, and email; as well as summaries, reports and/or proposals. Topics include: composition, writing clearly, grammar, sentence structure, writing across cultures, and ethical writing. Ample opportunity for writing is available through exercises and assignments, and feedback on your writing is provided by peers as well as by the instructor.
Course Details
Course Learning Outcomes
By completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Write a variety of workplace documents
- Apply basic grammar, sentence structure and punctuation in workplace writing
- Identify and demonstrate simple and clear writing
- Demonstrate concrete and direct written language
- Describe and apply ethical writing guidelines.
Notes
Previous course names/numbers: Business Writing Basics (BMC 113) and Professional Writing Basics (WRI 130)This is not an introductory writing course. Opportunities to practise grammar, punctuation and mechanics are provided; however, specific instruction in these basic skills is not the focus of the course.
Applies Towards the Following Program(s)
- Certificate in Change Management : Optional Courses
- Professional Writing Certificate specializing in Business and Technical Writing : Core Courses
- Professional Writing Certificate specializing in Marketing and Public Relations : Core Courses
I’ve been helping adult students learn a variety of business skills for many years as a teacher, program developer and administrator. Prior to becoming a teacher, I was a business specialist and working with several provincial government ministries, First Nations groups and private companies. I’ve been involved with online business education since 1999, most recently for Simon Fraser University and Northern Lights College in British Columbia as well as the University of Calgary in Alberta.
Carol Parchewsky, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan, and Certificates in Professional Management-PEG, e-Learning, Creative Writing from University of Calgary. Carol is past president of The Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She was fiction co-editor for QU Literary Magazine. Carol has been publishing flash fiction, short stories, and poetry since 2017. Topics of classes and sessions she’s taught include writing, ESL, and project management. She also provides mentoring, editing, and copy writing services for fiction, journals, and organizations.
