Intro to Professional Writing (undergraduate)
This course will introduce you to the discipline of professional writing. Be excited!
Technical Writing (undergraduate)
This course is for a variety of majors, including English, wildlife biology, building science, and nutrition and dietetics. Whatever your major, you’ll put writing into the context of your future and your discipline. You’ll develop a series of portfolio pieces that show that you can effectively communicate technical material in your discipline, and you’ll create the best résumé and cover letter you’ve ever written.
Technical Editing (undergraduate and graduate)
Editing is not only detail oriented but also about the vision of a document, the decisions that go into making it readable, clear, well organized, complete, and easy to use. This class will move you beyond the idea of proofreading as editing. You’ll learn about the multiple roles editors fill, the publication process, techniques (both electronic and on paper) for communicating with authors and production specialists, and more.
Web Development (usually graduate)
First, get over your fear of code. We’ll start with the basics, but by the time the class ends, you’ll know how to plan and design a site for real users, create it, control its appearance with style sheets, test it, make it accessible to users with disabilities, and prepare it for another person to maintain.
Note: If you want to stick with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface, such as Microsoft’s Web Expression, this class is not for you. But, if you want to learn how to design and develop properly, using any editor you want, this class is for you.
Proposal and Grant Writing (usually graduate)
Writing a proposal or grant is tricky. You’ll write both, and students in the graduate class will write a research paper and a request for proposals as well.
For grants, we’ll start with the basics:
- learning about the organization’s needs
- identifying foundations that are good matches
- writing to a foundation’s specific guidelines
- working with your client to develop a competitive but ethical grant proposal for a select foundation
- preparing your client for the remaining steps in the grant process (e.g., handling rejection/acceptance, meeting deadlines, reporting)