Professional Writing

ENGL 307-006 Business (Professional) Writing

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30-1:45 in CCIT 319

Instructor: Jim Bowman, jbowman@email.arizona.edu

Office Hours: Mondays & Tuesdays 2-3 and by appt

Office: CCIT 236, C Pod; Office Phone: 626-4871

Course listserve: bowman307@listserv.arizona.edu

Opening thought...

Many arguments…rest on the claim that they are self-evidently true or that they are consonant with the natural order or that they transcend history and culture. This claim is both false and dangerous…The truth is not found but made; it is never unassailable; its genesis is to be investigated in the arguments that have established it, in the purposes it serves, in the power it confers. This, I believe, is the strongest and most valuable form that the social view of communication can take. The rhetorical view of knowledge that underlies the social perspective in communication is, finally, a critique of the ways that knowledge is created and the purposes for which it is used.

Bruce Herzberg, from Professional Communication: The Social Perspective

 

 

 

 

 

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