Proposal to initiate a new instructional program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Professional Writing. The students' motives and professions will vary, but the emphasis on writing will attract students who want to make professional writing the center of their careers – a new population of students for Oregon Tech.
Bachelor of Science in Professional Writing (PWR), Curriculum
Relationship to Mission and Goals
It merges six main areas of the institution's primary focus: communication, writing, technologies, engineering, health and science. Connection of the proposed program to the institution's strategic priorities and signature focus areas.
Accreditation
All of this will be part of the training that students majoring in professional writing at OT will receive. Professional writing jobs range from entry-level writing and editing roles with the potential for advancement to senior technical writers and editors.
Program integration and collaboration
A degree in professional writing will recruit its own student population and should not affect enrollment in a communication major. The following resources are currently used by the communications department and would be used by the proposed BS in professional writing.
Financial Sustainability
Video Equipment - Undergraduate Communication Studies students currently use video recording equipment purchased by the Communication Department. Recruitment efforts will also include visits by faculty representatives to high schools, industry groups, conferences and career fairs.
External Review
Program faculty can participate in recruitment efforts through professional development and engagement with social and mass media.
OIT Catalog Requirements for New Academic Programs
- Curriculum Proposal Cover Sheet
- New Course Proposals and Change Course Requests
PWR 102 Introduction to Web Writing 3 Technical Elective (from list) 3 of 4. PWR 216 Writing in the Public Interest 3. COM 237 Introduction to Visual Communication 3. COM 301/COM 305 Rhetorical Theory/Contemporary. PWR 355 Project Management for Writers 3. COM 358 Communications and Law 3. Upper Division Writing Elective OR.
PWR 101: Introduction to Professional Writing
PWR 102: Introduction to Web Authoring
Tentative Schedule
PWR 330: User Research
PWR 355 - Project Management for Writers
WRITING 425: Advanced Composition
Practical steps, techniques and best practices aimed at integrating social media and digital programs into business, personal and artistic communication. Week Five: Interaction Planning, Building Relationships, Events and Connections Week Six: Measurement and Value on Social Media.
Course Title, Prerequisites, Description
Course Objectives
Course Outline
PWR 220 Writing for Interactive Media
Analyze a variety of texts for rhetorical strategy and effectiveness as determined by audience, purpose, context, and genre. Create texts from multiple genres in response to a single issue in the health professions, according to the needs of the audience, situation and stakeholders. Weeks 1-3: Issue and Audience—Identify and analyze issues in the health professions and/or specialized audience affected by a particular issue, for needs, opportunities, barriers, stakeholders, and possible writing goals.
Weeks 3-6: Writing in Context – Identify the needs of a specific audience or stakeholder and meet those needs through targeted writing and revision. Focuses on analyzing and understanding specific international contexts, revising documents based on rhetorical needs, and implementing strategies for creating original documents to appeal to international audiences. Implement a variety of techniques to produce texts that adapt the writing style to the specific needs of an international audience.
Analyze and revise the given documents according to the needs of that context and the particular international audience. Develop the student-selected and researched case study portfolio, including description of the simulated scenario, analysis of the selected international context, and professional writing samples suited to the needs of that context.
PWR 315: Advanced Web Authoring
PWR 320: Structured Authoring
This course focuses on moving beyond understanding the role of a public relations practitioner to learning how to do the writing required in the public relations profession. The course helps students practice writing in a variety of formats and for a number of audiences. After a review of the writing process (drafting, preparation, and editing), students practice writing public relations documents for various media.
Text: Strategic Writing: Media Writing for Public Relations, Advertising, Sales and Marketing, and Business Communication by Charles Marsh, David W. Learning and Performance Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will acquire the following knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Class Requirements: Over the course of the semester, students will write 10-15 announcements, PSAs, and other short PR pieces and one (optional) longer piece that, with final edits, will make up a final project -- a portfolio to be produced at the end of the term.
The only reading required is to read at least one Chicago newspaper each day, and other reading as assigned. Week Four: Memo with important ideas, activities for the organization Week Five: Rewritten story newsletter and traditional press release Week Six: Broadcast news release.
WRI 225: Writing Nonfiction (3-0-3)
You will collect all your assignments, online work and your final paper and display these things in a readable online portfolio. Focus on developing strategies for diagnosing, analyzing and revising for clarity using the technical vocabulary of style. Revise extracts from professional writing using these principles and skills and explain revisions to a lay audience.
Revision tasks require students to analyze the stylistic problems in a text using the technical vocabulary of style and revise the text to improve it. The texts they will analyze and revise are real-world policy statements, articles, documentation, or other forms of published professional writing. Weeks 8-10: Styletics: Motivational and global context; theories about and issues in style Assignment: Revision 3 (of the student's own academic writing) and/or Issue Paper.
In Issuepaper, students apply theoretical insights into style by analyzing texts of their own choice. In doing so, they will explain how style is a rhetorical concern, how their chosen issue poses a dilemma for professional writers, and apply the principles of style in their own writing.
WRI 345 Science Writing
Formal and informal oral presentations 8 Data / Discussion (written) Presentation of scientific information for lay audiences 9 Data / Discussion (poster . presentation).
COM 415: Developing Multimedia
Program Narrative (as it shall appear in the OIT Course Catalog)
Students can choose one of three emphases: Scientific and Technical Writing, Digital Media, or Writing in Organizations. The PWR program begins with a foundation of writing and style along with communication theories and application. Graduates will gain competence in the areas of visual and text creation, audience analysis, rhetorical theory, research methods, statistics, and group and team communication.
The program is designed to integrate written skills with technical knowledge, and courses in technical specialties are required. This program is interdisciplinary and requires students to create a curriculum that fits a specific career.
Summary of General Education Requirements Current General Education Requirements
Consultation with other OIT departments
Faculty Curriculum Vitae
34; The Scavenger H u nt : A Team Building Exercise." Retrieved "revise and resubmit" from Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 34; Comics as Nest Hole." Abstract accepted for Echoes of Home: Bringing Home to Work, eds.
Comics and the Social Practice of Access." Summary is under review for Cripping the Computer: A Critical Moment in Composition Studies, eds. 34; The Comic Book as Literacy Technology: Revising and Rethinking Multimodality and Visual Rhetoric." Conference on college composition and. 34; The edge of the panel, the edge of the page." Panel with Katie Livingston, Casey Miles and Donnie Sackey.
34; Decolonizing Comics: Codex Legacy and Native Detribalized Rhetoric in Two Comic Books." Southern Popular Culture Associations. 34; Toward a New Model of Humanities Research: Interdisciplinarity at the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society." Co-hosted with Libby Anthony, Rachel Dinkins, Heidi Lawrence, Michelle Seref and Karen Spears.
Education
Academic Experience
Matthew Search
As instructor of record for all courses: select, develop and present all content, readings, assignments and syllabus; evaluate uate student work; conference with students in the classroom, small groups and one-on-one sessions. As an ISUComm program consultant, assist faculty from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems. As a workshop facilitator, you will select, develop and present a rhetoric-based approach to basic scientific and technical communication to an audience of undergraduate scientific researchers.
As a workshop facilitator, you will select, develop, and present a rhetorically based approach to basic business communication to an audience of municipal and county clerks, administrators, and officials.
Related Professional Experience
Design and edit business support materials, technical instructions and training materials for Tupperware distributors (France owners). Design and edit banking software user documentation (contributing author to a set of approximately 35,000 pages in over 50 volumes). Design and edit banking software user documentation (contributing author to a set of approximately 15,000 pages in 20+ volumes) and accompanying training materials.
Research Interests
Presentations and Publications
Professional Affiliations
KARI }. LUNDGREN
Timeline for Accreditation N/A
Professional Writing job listings in the Northwest
- Technical Writer (junior/intern), Provide support to our Global Technical
- Job Responsibilities
- Technical writer/copywriter—project manager
- Job Description
- Central Team Support Location
- Nintendo of America, Inc
- Ghostwriter needed to cover Business Expansion Strategies (Seattle)
- Senior Editor
- Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting company, is seeking a full- time Project Assistant/Technical Editor in its Seattle, WA office
- Function: Zonar has an exciting opportunity for the right candidate interested in creating
- Editorial Coordinator (contract job)
- Magazine Editor Position Available (Lynnwood)
- Contract, Technical Writer (Redmond)
- Designer and Editor, Microsoft
Demonstrated ability to work well in a collaborative environment with marketing clients/partners and graphic designers to deliver strategic, creative solutions. Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and compromise, and demonstrate patience and diplomacy in changing project deadlines and scopes. Demonstrate the ability to independently monitor projects, develop schedules and ask questions as needed to ensure timely completion of tasks.
Demonstrate the ability to work well in a collaborative environment with marketing clients/partners and graphic designers to deliver strategic, creative solutions. Demonstrate the ability to independently track projects, develop schedules and raise issues as appropriate to ensure timely delivery of assignments. Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
Excellent time management skills, attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple tasks with competing deadlines. Good understanding of graphic design Ability to interview people for articles Some knowledge of printing.
Letters of Support with review of research process
My name is Veronica Koehn and I am an assistant professor in the Communications Department at Oregon Tech. If you answer yes, I can then use your answer in the curriculum proposal package to demonstrate to the committee that there is a need for PWR graduates in your field. Part of the approval process involves showing the curriculum committee that students in the proposed major would enter with skills that employers need and want.
I write enthusiastically in support of the BS program in Profession al Writing at Oregon Tech's K lamath Fall s and Wilsonville campuses. When evaluating the program's curriculum, the strength of the Oregon Tech BS program in Professional Writing is its dual focus on technical writing and digital/social media. I write in enthusiastic support of the BS program in Professional Writing at Oregon Tech's Klamath Falls and Wilsonville campuses.
The Oregon Tech BS program in professional writing asks students to get technical training in addition to writing skills. We are looking for both entry-level and interns who are trained in professional and technical writing and who have a wide range of skills and abilities in research, text and visual creation, user analysis and other professional writing skills that can help communication reach out to different target groups.
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