WRITING FOR CONTEXT (ENG170)

Prerequisite: None. (Offered online as part of the IT Workforce Accelerator Good Jobs Grant)

This course will help students explore the complex act of writing to people from different areas of specialization, generations, and cultural backgrounds. Taking your (multiple) audiences’ assumptions and level of understanding into account is important to communicate in a precise and effective way. You want your reader or listener to focus on the content of your message and not be distracted by references, idioms, or structures that might be distracting. It will also explore the productive aspects of conflict, helping students to see conflict as something to be negotiated as opposed to simply be avoided. This course will combine exercises and concrete examples and scenarios to help students be clear, professional, and thoughtful in their communication. Communication Capability course.