Adaptable Writing Skills

WRITCOM X 403

Learn how to adapt your approach to writing for a variety of situations and audiences in this course designed for folks who want to improve their written communication skills.

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What you can learn.

  • Learn to identify how to approach writing based on audience, purpose, and context
  • Practice writing syntheses, analyses, paraphrases, and synopses
  • Get experience writing collaboratively with other people
  • Develop written works you can adapt for a variety of personal and professional situations

About this course:

This course will focus on adaptable writing skills that can be used to produce writing for various practical purposes in everyday life, both business and personal. Students will learn how to synthesize material into summaries, analyze written material for discussions and overviews, paraphrase accurately, distill material for synopses, clarify content for lay audiences, and write in collaboration with others. Students will learn and practice these techniques in class and complete several written works that can be applied to business or personal use.

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