The Professional Writing program allows students to become communication specialists with developed skills in the rhetorical elements of writing, combined with a broadened view of how writers negotiate the shared knowledge of their culture. Professional Writing students gain the skills necessary to become professional communicators who can affect change through writing. Students learn varied and creative approaches to writing portfolios, company reports, grant proposals, profiles, speeches, and résumés. Students acquire skills that relate to writing for the arts and new media, as well as for the corporate and not-for-profit sectors of society.

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