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This course will develop students' capacity to produce professional writing according to a range of practices, within a variety of contexts and genres, and in response to the needs and expectations of diverse audience groups.
The first part of the course will be concerned with establishing core literacies common across many of these genres, including effective structure and signalling of purpose, appropriate register, and techniques for inclusion of support. Subsequent sessions will then examine the contexts and specific exemplary texts of a range of professional writing genres, including context-specific report-writing, policy writing, the construction of effective process narrative, collaborative writing, and new media writing practices. Students will then have the opportunity to apply what they learn from analysis of these genres to the production of their own assessed writing, including self-analysis of their choice of techniques and form, and the alignment of aims to specific writing effects.
At the end of this course you will be able toidentify, analyse, and write according to the main genres of professional writing;identify your audience and utilise the writing techniques and styles appropriate to that audience;deploy a wide range of editorial strategies, at an advanced level, in the revision and improvement of professional texts of various kinds;undertake research relevant to your writing tasks;provide advanced editorial advice for other writers;understand and articulate the implications of being a writer in Aotearoa New Zealand, especially in regard to te ao me te reo Māori and the Pasifika philosophy of teu le va.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Entry is subject to approval of the Head of Department. RP: A Bachelor's degree (with at least a B average in 300-level courses) in any subject in which writing comprises a significant part of the assessment
A Bachelor's degree (with at least a B average in 300-level courses) in any subject in which writing comprises a significant part of the assessment
For further information see Humanities Head of Department
Domestic fee $1,847.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .