Goals include writing clearly, concisely and correctly, achieved through numerous writing exercises and by composing a variety of business memoranda and letters. Credit is granted for either LHC520 or LHC322 and passing exit assessment. Goals include developing a repertoire of writing strategies for effective management in a variety of business contexts. Students develop competencies in clear and concise writing through numerous writing projects, including abstracts, memoranda, letters, short reports, and a variety of problem-solving documents. Cases are used.
Students spend considerable time developing organizational and persuasive skills.
Collaborative writing strategies are also introduced. It is assumed that students know the fundamentals of managerial writing. Through a series of cases and writing tasks, participants learn to associate managerial goals and receiver responses with textual variations involving the organization and development of content, syntactic constructions, and document design. Also explored, in the second half of the course, are in-basket management, media selection, and message distribution and timing. The course ends with an exit assessment the results of which are then compared with each participant s MBA Writing Assessment data.