Course Description
This course provides students with the foundational skills in reading, writing and editing, suitable to a business-related environment. Students will learn fundamentals of summarizing, sentence and paragraph structure, research methods, comparative and analytical writing and basic reporting styles. Furthermore, students will learn to ethically incorporate emerging technologies to enhance their writing and research abilities.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Read analytically and efficiently, distinguishing between main ideas and demonstrate an understanding of audience, situation, and purpose in writing contexts appropriate for a business environment
- Conduct, identify and evaluate reliable secondary research
- Effectively write summaries, memos, emails and reports appropriate for a professional workplace
- Recognize the ethical integration of AI tools into the drafting and editing process
- Apply APA documentation and citation style to formal business documents
- Read analytically and efficiently, distinguishing between main ideas and supporting details
- Identify and use effective English grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure.
- Examine and infer concepts of plagiarism as they apply to workplace-oriented writing.
Readings
There is no textbook for this course. Course readings will be available online, through our class Moodle page, or at the library. Location of each reading will be specified in the course schedule.
It is your responsibility to access these readings as required before the date we will cover them in class.
Please ensure that you have access to the readings in either print or electronic format for the classes in which they are scheduled (i.e. print them off and bring them to class or have a laptop/tablet with the reading saved to its hard drive).
This course provides students with the foundational skills in reading, writing and editing, suitable to a business-related environment. Students will learn fundamentals of summarizing, sentence and paragraph structure, research methods, comparative and analytical writing and basic reporting styles. Furthermore, students will learn to ethically incorporate emerging technologies to enhance their writing and research abilities.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Read analytically and efficiently, distinguishing between main ideas and demonstrate an understanding of audience, situation, and purpose in writing contexts appropriate for a business environment
- Conduct, identify and evaluate reliable secondary research
- Effectively write summaries, memos, emails and reports appropriate for a professional workplace
- Recognize the ethical integration of AI tools into the drafting and editing process
- Apply APA documentation and citation style to formal business documents
- Read analytically and efficiently, distinguishing between main ideas and supporting details
- Identify and use effective English grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure.
- Examine and infer concepts of plagiarism as they apply to workplace-oriented writing.
Readings
There is no textbook for this course. Course readings will be available online, through our class Moodle page, or at the library. Location of each reading will be specified in the course schedule.
It is your responsibility to access these readings as required before the date we will cover them in class.
Please ensure that you have access to the readings in either print or electronic format for the classes in which they are scheduled (i.e. print them off and bring them to class or have a laptop/tablet with the reading saved to its hard drive).
- Instructor: Heather Allen
- Instructor: Sally Contenta
- Instructor: Jillian Garrett
- Instructor: Ellen Gregory
- Instructor: Michael Saad