Course Description
This course offers students practice and training in writing for the health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Recognizing the importance of analyzing audience and understanding the rhetorical situation, this course places emphasis on the entire writing process: from planning and drafting through revising and editing. Students will complete a series of assignments that offer them guided practice in the genres most common to the healthcare professions. Beginning with professional development documents (resumes, letters of application and request, and project narratives), students will learn to adapt their writing skills to the demands of a healthcare audience. The course will then direct students’ attention to scholarly and public health documents (abstracts, articles, and reviews) common to the health professions.
In this course, students will learn to:
- > Analyze the needs of specific audiences for healthcare documents
- > Evaluate the contexts and goals for a variety of healthcare documents
- > Write and revise documents common to the health professions
- > Adapt their own writing to varied rhetorical situations and audiences
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