COMMS 200

Writing in the Workplace

Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for COMMS 200.

Description

Addresses written communication in the workplace across a range of discourses, environments, strategies and audiences. Focusing on different kinds of writing used in contexts such as government, community organisations, consultancy, professions, NGOs and private business, students will analyse and produce key workplace text-types within a critical framework of workplace analysis and scholarship on labour and organisations.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for COMMS 200.

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2022

Availability to be advised

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Reading/Texts

Sky Marsen, Professional Writing, 3rd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire: New York, 2013)

Points

COMMS 200: 15 points

Prerequisites

60 points at Stage I in BA courses