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Professional writing - Faculty of ArtsOffered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies Professional writing focuses on non-fiction writing applied to a number of contexts, particularly that of the workplace. It begins by establishing a firm foundation in grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, readability and plain English, building upon structuring and argumentation skills acquired in the study of the genre of academic writing. It uses the foundation of language mechanics to develop expertise in the planning, design, drafting and editing of workplace documents, such as letters, memos, emails, reports, resumes, and online writing. One of the advanced subjects builds on this foundation to explore writing in three applied genres- technical writing, public communication writing, and the writing of grants, submissions, proposals and tenders (with this writing process reinforced by presenting and pitching the same informative and persuasive message). The other advanced subject focuses on the relationship of grammar to writing, exploring such questions as whether knowledge of grammar (and punctuation and style) helps or hinders writers. It considers major models of grammar or syntax and morphology (traditional, generative/transformational, and functional), punctuation, lexis or vocabulary, historical development, geographical and social variation, registers, genres, rhetoric, corpus linguistics, text types or discourse styles, and will then link these theoretical bases to practical expressive techniques. There are three groups of students who find the sequence valuable: (i) those who want to undertake a career as full-time professional writers, particularly in non-fiction genres in corporate, technical, non-profit, public-sector or publishing/editing/journalism/public communication roles (ii) those students from outside the Arts faculty who perhaps see that the skills and knowledge acquired in some or all subjects will give them some of the employability, graduate or transferable skills so prized by employers (iii) those who are contemplating a career in English teaching, and seek a technical foundation in language facility- combined with a study of and love of literature subjects- that few, if any other institutions can offer. For information on the units required for a minor in Professional writing, refer to the `Areas of study' section on the Arts faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study-areas/. Relevant courses
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