ENGL4200 - Professional Writing Capstone

This course serves as the culmination of the Professional Writing major and minor and the Creative Writing minor. Students finalize a professional portfolio that demonstrates the skills they have acquired in their writing program. The course provides Professional Writing majors and minors with the opportunity to research specific jobs and organizations as audiences for their portfolios, to explore those organizations? writing-related tasks and standards, and to edit their portfolios to ensure that they meet and exceed expectations. Creative Writing minors have the opportunity to complete a substantial writing project, to conduct research on venues for disseminating their work and the standards required for acceptance, and to edit their work and prepare submission materials to meet and exceed those standards. Students are expected to bring substantial amounts of written material developed in previous courses that are worthy of inclusion in the portfolio. Rather than focus on the work of other writers, this course will encourage students to read, write, and revise their own work in a manner that addresses the rhetorical situation of their professional field.
Prerequisites: Permission of department head.
3 Credits