Description

If you do any sort of writing in your professional context, you've come to the right place. While writing in the workplace often looks different based on your job position and workplace culture, in this micro-course we'll train you to identify, consider, and make decisions based on the three key aspects of professional writing: Audience, Medium, and Purpose. Your awareness and mastery of these key aspects of professional writing will empower you to navigate any workplace writing situation.

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this micro-course, you will be able to:

Define the key characteristics of effective professional written communication
Identify the Audience, Medium, and Purpose of professional written communication
Choose the appropriate Audience, Medium, and Purpose in different professional contexts.
Advance writing skills across various professional contexts

Eligibility

Must be 18 or older

Refund Policy

You will have 24 hours to request a full refund after purchase. A refund will not be issued if you have already earned the course badge or certificate, or if more than 25% of the course content has been completed.

Faculty Bios

Beth Nastachowski

Beth Nastachowski previously taught writing both as a writing instructor and contributing faculty member for Walden University. She has also served as a subject matter expert for Walden’s writing courses. In addition to her academic writing experience, Beth has taught workshops on professional writing for businesses, helping workers to improve their communication skills across many different forms of writing in the workplace.

Sarah Prince

Sarah Prince has been working with student and college level writers since 2002 and has been a writing instructor at Walden University since 2011. She currently teaches and has worked as a subject matter expert for writing courses and doctoral workshops for Walden’s Academic Skills Center and School of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Studies. Sarah earned her BA at Presbyterian College and her MA and PhD from Emory University. Working with a range of student and professional writers has cemented Sarah’s passion for helping individuals develop their unique academic and professional voices.

Curriculum

What is Professional Writing?
Identify the key characteristics of effective professional writing, specifically, the four common types of writing in the workplace: correspondence writing, policy or procedural writing, job-seeking writing, and strategy writing.
Introduction to AMPlifying Your Professional Writing
AMPlify your own professional writing by considering the unique audience, medium, and purpose of each of your professional writing contexts. Discover and practice asking yourself key questions that will ensure you meet professional writing context expectations.
Identify Audience, Medium, and Purpose
Through hands-on exercises, you will practice in determining audience, medium, and purpose in a range of correspondence, policy and procedure, job-seeking, and strategy documents. This practice will help you quickly identify effective professional writing and prepare you to integrate key audience, medium, and purpose considerations in your own writing.
Integrating Audience, Medium, and Purpose in the Professional Writing Process
Explore how to incorporate considerations of audience, medium, and purpose into a successful prewriting, drafting, revision, and proofreading process. Using these tools to build a sound writing process, ensure your professional writing always meets college-level writing standards, addresses reader expectations, and reflects well on you and your employer.