This course teaches effective written communication for the world of business management in the form of such documents as case studies, collaborative proposals, and formal reports. Upper-level writing . Three nonfiction articles are researched, written, and revised. Students also read published examples of the form in magazines such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Sunday Magazine . Book-length examples of new nonfiction such as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff are also appropriate reading.
Class periods consist of discussion of the reading and critiques of student articles.
WRIT 0213 or WRIT 0214. Upper-level writing . Science Writing covers types of writing specific to the sciences, such as lab reports and research reports. The class will experiment with writing materials for professional and general audiences. Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Environmental Science, and Geology students will write works based on their own research in their own areas.