This course should provide me with the essentials to be able to write effectively in a professional environment. The skills I will learn in this course will be almost invaluable as I’m certain I will write endless reports, proposals, and correspondence in my career.
I look forward to using and learning about all the online aspects of this course. In particular, I cannot wait to clean up my LinkedIn profile as that was something I have had on the back-burner for quite some time! Of course, making a professional website will show me a writing and web-style that I have never had to deal with before. Being online and having such effective ways to communicate with my peers and Erika will definitely help with my potential for learning during this course.
Perhaps the most important part of this course for me will be that of reflection and self-editing. In learning how to write for a professional environment I want to be as independent as I can because you won’t always have someone there to look over and check your work before it gets where it needs to be.
I am a strong believer that “practice makes perfect” and that the blog posting and comments will allow for all of us as students and instructors to edit and peer review and critique our work in an effective manner. I look forward to honing my professional writing expertise these coming months, and also I can’t wait to pick up tips and tricks about writing from reviewing everyone’s work.
Overall I can only assume that the writing style in all these professional documents will be confident, clear, and concise. I really look forward to this because I haven’t enjoyed the “filler” writing style that I have had to use when taking previous writing courses.