Description
write a reflective essay that addresses the following:
- What specific skills you’ve learned and practiced in the class to date; be specific and offer examples.
- Discuss the challenges you have faced in your education and in your career thus far and how the skills you have been studying and practicing in English 120 might help you further.
- offer your thought process about some of the following in terms of your writing and work life: your strengths and growth, what you’d still like to work on, where you want to be headed, how equipped you feel you are, what you want to pursue, and what you need next.
Course DescriptionHelps students develop the skills necessary for effective business writing. They will write, edit and format letters, memos, reports and a research paper. They will analyze business articles and other professionally oriented material.Course ObjectivesBy the end of this course, the student will demonstrate proficiency of the following skills:Write business documents (including memos, letters, instructions, reports).Create a job portfolio (including resume, cover letter, networking letter, profile).Participate in peer reviews.Utilize the drafting process.Edit and proofread documents- focusing on grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and sentence construction and variety.Develop presentation skills.Identify elements of business communication, and describe how messages are adapted to various audiences and purposes.Prepare and revise a variety of formal business communications, including letters, memos, instructions, reports, proposals, and summaries to make them unified and well detailed.Design effective visuals, and use electronic graphics to enhance business messages and documents.Write effective instructions that adapt the to the previous knowledge and needs of the target audience–includes an introduction, definitions, preparations, steps and commands.Write various types of summaries, including informative, explanatory, and analytic.Make vocabulary choices in terms of diction, level, and rhetorical purpose.Provide supporting details for rhetorical claims.Focus and develop ideas through prewriting exercises.Document external sources with in-citations and ‘references” lists using MLA or APA format.Apply a variety of patterns of development in writing such as cause/effect (complaint letter, instructions, proposal); compare/contrast (reading responses); persuasion (proposal, letters), summary (annotated bibliography); and analysis (report), etc.Read and assess articles, reports, letters, and other modes of business communication for effective organization, purpose, tone, and rhetorical strategies.Read and assess articles and online materials for main points, logic, supporting detail, and organization, visual elements, and strategy.Assess an author’s purpose, tone, and audience in a variety of modes of business communication.
