WR 115W Introduction to College Writing: Workplace Emphasis

This course introduces students to the expectations of workplace reading, writing, and project management. Students will be introduced to rhetorical concepts and engage in a collaborative writing process to produce projects with a variety of purposes and audiences across multiple genres. Projects may include job letters, memos, technical reports, and other documents and multimodal projects drawn from students' chosen fields. Students will produce 2000-2500 words of revised, final draft copy or appropriate multimodal analogs for this amount of text; at least one of the projects will incorporate source material and practice attribution conventions. This course fulfills writing requirements for some Lane programs. Note: This three-credit writing course will count as a prerequisite for WR 121 at Lane only. Students who plan to transfer should be aware that most other colleges and universities in Oregon will not accept WR 115W as a prerequisite for WR 121.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Appropriate Lane Writing Placement or Pass or letter grade of C- or better in WR 093 or WR 097 or successful completion of ABSE Reading and Writing for College Success AND Bridge to College.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Writing Situations
a. Demonstrate the ability to create documents that meet the needs of different audiences, user contexts, and document purposes
b. Apply writing and research strategies to meet the needs of workplace genres, organizational needs, and user contexts
c. Make stylistic decisions appropriate to the genre, situation, and audience
2. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
a. Complete reading and writing activities tailored to specific workplace cultures and needs
b. Develop strategies for solving problems using appropriate reading and research strategies
c. Make writing and design choices that serve the needs of a specific audience, purpose, and context
3. The Writing Process
a. Apply flexible strategies to support planning, research, writing, and revision
b. Collaborate with classmates and stakeholders to provide feedback from a reader/user perspective and gain insight on writing tasks
c. Reflect on and apply previous knowledge and experience to meet personal, professional, and workplace communication needs