- INSDSG614 Writing for the Business Professional
- Course Description
- This course is designed to help participants develop writing. It provides both analysis of written documents and a theoretical review of professional writing techniques. Assignments emphasize the writing tasks typically required of training and development specialists in any organization. They include the design, assessment, marketing, and evaluation of instruction. Participants develop the skills for effective communication with those outside the organization, and those at all levels within it.
Prerequisite: INSDSG 601 and Graduate Degree Student. - Academic Information
- Units: 3
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None. - Schedule & Fee
- Dates: May 27-Aug 21
Class #: 2528
Course Fee: $1390
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $1390 - Instructor
- Lynn Andrews
lynn.andrews@umb.edu - Book Information
- Wellesley R. Foshay, Kenneth H. Silberl Michael B. Stelnicki. Writing Training Materials That Work. Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer. ISBN: 0-7879-6411-5
- Marilyn Haight. The Instruction Writer’s Guide. Publisher: Infinity Publishing. ISBN: 0-7414-2668-4
- Nancy Stimson. How To Write & Prepare Training Materials 2nd edition. Publisher: Stylus Publishing, Inc.. ISBN: 0-74-94-3723-5
- William Strunk, E.B. White. Elements of Style 4th edition. Publisher: Macmillan. ISBN: 0 -205-30902-X
- Wimba Requirement
- UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.