WRT-610 Professional Writing and Rhetoric (3)

In a technologized world that has become increasingly complex to navigate, professional writing and rhetoric are essential tools in interpreting this world for its users. Whether users are visiting websites, viewing videos, or reading manuals, these tools crucially shape users’ experiences. Through collaboration with stakeholders and practitioners, professional communicators must address issues of agency, ethics, usability, and accessibility using a variety of technologies. This interactive, open-ended course provides the strategies and skills necessary to produce effective, high-quality professional multi-modal and digital documents. Students engage and experiment, as both scholars and communicators, and produce texts for professional contexts. Calling on the evolution of professional communication theory, the course reconciles diverse perspectives and needs, and looks toward the future of the field in an age of ever-changing technology and emergent users. Crosslist: WRT-410.