Professional Writing Certificate

Learning Outcomes

• 1: Write effectively across multiple genres and media, using a variety of modalities
• 2: Communicate across diverse audiences, contexts, and cultures, enabling you to compose effectively on behalf of an organization or cause
• 3: Understand concepts central to professional writing such as, but not limited to, rhetoric, genre, ethics, and user-centered design
• 4: Recognize the different conventions, forms, and genres of writing that are appropriate for different professional settings
• 5: Understand writing as a form of creative and critical inquiry central to a variety of professions, industries, and vocations, including professional and technical writing, editing and publishing, mass media, journalism, social work, and nonprofit/advocacy work
• 6: Exhibit your professional ethos through a digital portfolio of professional writing