Micro-Course | No Credit or CE | Estimated 3-Hour Workload
Professional Development
All Level
No Credit or CE
Estimated 3-Hour Workload
Self-Paced
180 Days
This micro-course will introduce you to the foundations of professional writing, a necessity in modern work environments. By focusing on Audience, Medium, and Purpose, this micro-course explores how to AMPlify your professional writing and meet the expectations of your workplace writing contexts.
Upon successful completion of this micro-course, you will be able to:
You will have seven days to request a full refund after purchase. No hidden fees. All books and materials are included with purchase.
Beth Nastachowski has taught writing since 2011, both as a writing instructor and contributing faculty member at Walden University. She has also served as a subject matter expert for Walden’s writing courses. In addition to her academic writing experience, Beth has taught workshops on professional writing for businesses, helping workers to improve their communication skills across many different forms of writing in the workplace. You can learn more about Beth’s professional writing background and offerings at https://www.writingintheworkplace.com/.
Sarah Prince has been working with student and college level writers since 2002 and has been a writing instructor at Walden University since 2011. She currently teaches and has worked as a subject matter expert for writing courses and doctoral workshops for Walden’s Academic Skills Center and School of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Studies. Sarah earned her BA at Presbyterian College and her MA and PhD from Emory University. Working with a range of student and professional writers has cemented Sarah’s passion for helping individuals develop their unique academic and professional voices.
Identify the key characteristics of effective professional writing, specifically, the four common types of writing in the workplace: correspondence writing, policy or procedural writing, job-seeking writing, and strategy writing.
AMPlify your own professional writing by considering the unique audience, medium, and purpose of each of your professional writing contexts. Discover and practice asking yourself key questions that will ensure you meet professional writing context expectations.
Through hands-on exercises, you will practice in determining audience, medium, and purpose in a range of correspondence, policy and procedure, job-seeking, and strategy documents. This practice will help you quickly identify effective professional writing and prepare you to integrate key audience, medium, and purpose considerations in your own writing.
Explore how to incorporate considerations of audience, medium, and purpose into a successful prewriting, drafting, revision, and proofreading process. Using these tools to build a sound writing process, ensure your professional writing always meets college-level writing standards, addresses reader expectations, and reflects well on you and your employer.
Build a professional writing process that you can use apply in any workplace context.
Printable checklists to take with you and apply to future professional writing.
Easily consumable segments to adapt around your busy life
Certificate of Completion in AMPlify Your Professional Writing
Professional Development
All Level
No Credit or CE
Estimated 3-Hour Workload
Self-Paced
180 Days
