Professional Writing Certificate

Improve your written, oral and digital communications skills.
Degree Type Certificate
Careers & Salaries Certificate Outcomes
Delivery On Campus

The Professional Writing Certificate offers a career-focused educational experience that prepares you to solve communication problems in the real world. As a graduate of this 15-credit certificate, you will be able to rhetorically assess communication situations, design visually compelling documents, and clarify technical concepts for a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences.

With a focus on generating polished, user-centered deliverables, this certificate will enable you to help address an area of critical importance in business, nonprofit, governmental and community workplaces – clearly communicating information.

Learning Outcomes 

  • Understand and implement basic professional writing concepts
  • Understand and apply editing strategies, rhetorical theory, usability research, and visual rhetoric to create professional deliverables
  • Develop strategies for effectively responding to communication situations in professional contexts to complete a significant, collaborative client-based project
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Certificate Requirements

The certificate is an alternative credential for individuals seeking to obtain new knowledge and skills.

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Students in the B.S. Professional Communication and Emerging Media will be eligible to complete the certificate through their courses. All courses are currently being offered as part of that degree.