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Spring 2008 Junior Year Writing Core Syllabus

Our Mission

Business Communication courses in the Isenberg School of Management offer you opportunities to learn about leadership and management communication, as well as to practice critical thinking and business writing skills. To accomplish these goals, our courses encompass:

  • Interactive approaches that focus on developing leadership and management communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills

  • Exercises that promote practice in argument, persuasion, communication strategy, page design, and graphics

  • Assignments that result in at least 20+ final draft pages of quality writing by the end of the course, including business documents of varying values, lengths, and types

  • Engagement in key writing processes, including giving feedback, working with peer editors, self-editing, revising, and proof reading

  • Support to help you improve grammar and style points: face-to-face conferences, writing center tutoring, writing resources

  • Reading, writing, and discussion on issues and trends in management communication, including ethical and cross-cultural communication

  • Professional and career writing assignments aimed at helping you develop the kinds of writing-thinking skills that are expected in your major fields

  • Research writing focusing on information analysis, citing and listing information sources, and documenting sources.

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The information in this core syllabus applies to all SOM 310-390 courses.