COMMS 200
Writing in the Workplace
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for COMMS 200.
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.
By the end of this course students will have developed the ability to distinguish between the main types of workplace writing and to determine their mode, function and role in workplace operations; to produce effective, appropriate and strategic writing across key workplace text-types; to relate the type and function of texts to the contexts of different kinds of work environments; to relate workplace writing to the aims and goals of different kinds of organisations; an understanding of the relation of writing and workplace, including the ability to reflect on writing as part of the work operation that it facilitates.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Stephen Turner
Points
COMMS 200: 15 points
Prerequisites
COMMS 100 or FTVMS 100, and 15 points from COMMS 104, FTVMS 110, ENGLISH 121
If you have 15 points from FTVMS 100, 101 or 110 you can apply for a concession to take this course as part of your Media, Film and Television or Screen Production major or minor.