PRWR 6000: Intro to Professional Writing

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.
This course introduces students to the three MAPW concentrations, focusing on key issues, theories, stylistic conventions, and research methods specific to each field and those that cut across all three concentrations. Students engage in reading and discussion, practice with rhetorical grammar and style, critique and application of research methodologies, and writing and revision strategies essential to professional writers’ work. Students build foundations for completing program requirements and course work within their concentration and support areas.