COMMS 200

Writing in the Workplace

Description

Addresses written communication in the workplace across a range of discourses, environments, strategies and audiences. Focusing on different kinds of writing used in contexts such as government, community organisations, consultancy, professions, NGOs and private business, students will analyse and produce key workplace text-types within a critical framework of workplace analysis and scholarship on labour and organisations.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline. for COMMS 200
 
Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December.

Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Reading/Texts

Sky Marsen, Professional Writing, 3rd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire: New York, 2013)

Assessment

Coursework only

Points

COMMS 200: 15 points

Prerequisites

60 points at Stage I in BA courses