Students use the writing process of prewrite, draft, revise, and edit to produce professionally written business documents. Students demonstrate effective reader-centered business communication through written paragraphs, memos, letters, and short reports. Students demonstrate ability to collect information, solve problems, and make decisions independently. Students consider the important effects of culture, workplace diversity, work teams, and technology on business communication. Students review grammar, punctuation, usage, and style for business communicators through the Language Lab requirement.
Students develop basic and advanced writing techniques.
Students adapt communication strategies and techniques to a range of communication applications that provide realistic workplace situations in which written documents will be required. Students continue to use the writing process of prewrite, draft, revise, and edit to produce professionally written and oral technical reports. Students will demonstrate ability to collect and analyze information, solve problems that demand a report, and make independent and collaborative decisions. Students consider the important effects of work teams and computer technology on technical reporting. Students develop advanced writing techniques and build upon those skills obtained through Written Communication.