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Jan. 12

  • What do you think Professional Writing is? 
  • Workplace writing 
  • Unemotional 
    • Straight forward 
    • No opinions 
  • Invested in the business world 
    • Useful for making decisions 
  • Uses structures like bullets 
  • Letters, emails 
  • Challenges people to think critically 
  • Mechanics (Edited American English or EAE) 
  • Ethos or credibility is relevant 
  • Proposals 
    • Client 
    • Employer 
    • Granting agency 
  • Audience groups 
    • Shareholders 
    • Consumers 
    • Employers 
    • Coworkers 
    • Clients 
    • The media 
    • Competition 
    • Lawyers 
  • Differences from academic writing 
    • Mechanics, language choice 
    • Citation practices
      • Format (reference) differences 
    • Tone 
      • Academic may be more univocal 
    • Genre 
      • Manuals 
      • Memo/email 
      • PR 
  • What kind of professional and technical writing takes place in your field? (Identify specific examples if possible.) 
    • Accounting 
      • Explanatory reports 
    • Marketing 
      • Analysis 
      • Advertising 
    • EVS 
      • Permits 
      • Forms 
      • Grant proposals 
    • Criminology 
      • Incident reports 
    • Film 
      • Production documents 
      • Schedules 
      • Contracts 
    • MIS 
      • Technical documentation 
      • Meeting notes/minutes 
  • How does rhetoric fit in? 
    • Argumentation 
    • Persuasion 
    • Polemics