Put writing to work in your career!
Think critically. Write professionally. Get hired. Be promoted.
Minor in Professional Writing!
The Professional Writing minor is:
- only 18 credits
- designed for students in campus four-year degree programs including
- Business
- Engineering
- Information Sciences and Technology
- Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Psychology
Spring 2012 courses include:
- ENGL 420 - Writing for the Web: This course helps students explore the unique opportunities and challenges of writing for the Web and electronic media. Students learn to compose and construct texts based on principles of audience awareness and persuasive appeal.
- ENGL 473 - Discourse Analysis: In this course, students study language as a social interaction, how different communities use rhetoric in different situations. Specifically, students will work with local community groups, listen to and identify issues of concern, and then use their writing skills to assist those community groups in accomplishing their goals.
Learn more!
See your adviser to discuss the value of writing in your profession or contact English Coordinator James Manis at jdm12@psu.edu or 570-450-3189.
Professional Writing is...
- Business plans
- Grant applications
- Strategic plans
- Literature reviews
- Statements of work
- Annual reports
- Performance reviews
- Legal briefs
- Advertising copy
- Journal articles
- Contracts
- Web sites
- Speeches and presentations
- and so much more!