WRIT 502 Writing in the Disciplines

Today’s professions require specific types of effective written communication to best meet employer and stakeholder needs. By creating written documents, the student applies current professional writing standards appropriate for specific disciplines and considers purpose, audience, context, ethics, and legal concerns. This course will provide the student with advanced writing scenarios found in a range of professional disciplines.

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After reading the Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student must provide an original post of approximately 250-350 words in response to each Discussion prompt that demonstrates comprehension of and engagement in course content. Original posts must be well-reasoned responses to provided prompts, with supporting documentation from course readings, presentations, and other carefully evaluated sources. The student must cite and reference all borrowed words and ideas in threads and replies to peers. Follow-up replies to at least two classmates must be at least 150 words and demonstrate critical engagement with the ideas of others.

In each assigned Module: Week, the student will be provided a specific prompt for applying a professional writing workplace scenario within each discipline. Current and correct documentation style formatting appropriate for each discipline will be utilized. The student should reference the assignment instructions for each assignment for specific requirements.

The personal perspective or experience often informs the intellectual and academic issues within a discipline. Therefore, the student will locate scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles relating to the weekly topic/content for Writing in the Disciplines (WID). The first journal article has been provided. The student will write a reflection of at least 350 words in APA style.