As the senior capstone course for professional and technical writers, Advanced Professional And Technical Writing helps students make the transition from student writers to professionals who must balance the tension between theory and the needs and expectations of their audiences.This class will draw upon rhetorical theory in order to help students understand professional and technical writing as a process of problem-solving in a variety of contexts-- social, institutional, technical, ethical, and rhetorical. The course will emphasize the ethical dimensions of decision-making and information design in complex technical and rhetorical situations. Throughout the course, students are asked to think about the social and ethical consequences of their work as they write and design solutions to complex information design problems in the classroom. In the final project, students will write a series of related professional documents that will provide them with a portfolio they can take into the workplace.
