Goals:

• To gain experience writing for the sorts of audiences encountered in business and professional contexts.
• To gain familiarity with the basic written formats used in business and professional contexts.
• To gain experience developing a major written report, from initial proposal to final draft.
• To gain experience with formal oral presentations.
• To gain mastery of the basic stylistic techniques of business and professional discourse and to refine editing and revising skills.
• To gain experience with the use of figures, illustrations and layout for reports.
• To gain familiarity with the basics of at least one form of electronic document design.
    

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Policies

Editing: All work must meet professional standards of editing for grammar and mechanics in order to receive a passing grade.

Revisions: Students are encouraged to review drafts of their work with the professor; each student will be required to submit a preliminary draft of the final project for review with the professor. In addition, each student may choose to revise and submit for re-grading one piece of finished work, not including the final project report; the revision grade and the original grade will be averaged.

Late Papers: Work is due on the assigned date. Late work will incur a penalty of one letter grade per day late.

Attendance: Any unexcused absences in excess of three will result in a lowered final grade.

Schedule of Assignments