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Jan. 12

  • What do you think Professional Writing is? 
  • How does nonfiction, journalism fit in? 
  • PR, business writing 
  • Organization, concision 
  • Differences from academic writing 
    • Formatting 
      • Genre based 
    • Audience differences 
      • Academic audience is generally a particular reader or an invoked audience 
    • Depth 
      • Knowledge of subject 
      • Presentation 
    • Analytic vs. informative 
      • Informative = providing brief basic content 
      • Analytic = more prose detail 
    • Medium 
      • Online, print 
    • Purpose 
      • Selling, informing, workplace communication to accomplish tasks 
      • Persuasion 
    • Stakes 
    • Feedback 
  • What’s the role of rhetoric? 
    • Tact 
      • Strategies to accomplish something 
      • Arrangement 
      • Appeals 
  • What kind of professional and technical writing takes place in your field? (Identify specific examples if possible.) 
    • Accounting 
      • Email 
        • Clients 
        • Employees 
      • Auditing reports 
    • Com. 
      • Social media (branding and PR) 
      • Journalism 
    • Marketing 
      • Proposals 
    • Anthropology 
      • Field reports 
      • Funding reports 
        • With economic implications 
      • Scholarly dialogue 
      • Communications to the public 
    • Real estate 
      • Contracts 
      • Descriptions, agreements