Course Description
The course introduces students to the distinctive elements of writing in business, professional, and technical contexts, where it will provide students with opportunities to practice and perfect a series of shorter assignments and longer projects; as well as the strategies and techniques particular to writing in these contexts. Students are to engage with their classmates in an online discussion, peer review, and analysis of documents produced for business, professional, and technical contexts. This course also directs students to the considerable resources available to them through UBC’s Career Services unit. Furthermore, the involves students in developing and designing an online portfolio in two forms: a Linked profile with accompanying references and a professionally designed website that also presents one’s resume. Finally, reflecting on students’ writing and developing self-editing skills is encouraged.
The course is distributed into four units where students are to learn:
- The principles of technical and business writing
- Future mapping
- Resume writing
- How to write a report proposal
- Business correspondence
- How to write a job application packages
- Peer reviewing the writings of others
Goals
My goal in taking this course is pretty simple. To start off, I personally think this course is important in the sense that we are required to write abstracts, proposals, applications, reports, correspondence and online communications: emails, texts, Web Folio and networking in our professional career after graduating from UBC. For example, if we were to be working in a business, we are to design a project or an idea to improve our company, and a proposal must be submitted to our chair for approval. Similarly, like most graduate programs, you are required to submit a proposal for the research you are to do in graduate school. Also, there will be several emails be written in my professional career; therefore, this course will benefit me in the future.