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Writing Studies Strand
Writing studies is for students mostinterested in studying writing as adiscipline within the academy. Its flexibleplan for exploring writing is an excellentbackground for students consideringgraduate work in writing and rhetoric.
Students take these three courses:
ENGL 328: Writing, Style, and TechnologyENGL 417: Rhetoric and the Written WordENGL 484: Seminar in WrittenCommunication
Students take one of the following:
ENGL 310: Writing and Civic LiteracyENGL 354: Critical Digital Literacies
 Students take one of the following:
ENGL 424: Technical WritingENGL 427: Technical EditingENGL 444: Writing for the World Wide Web
 
Students take one of the following:
 JRNL 306: Feature WritingCRTW 335: Creative Writing
 
Restricted Elective Courses
:12 Credit hours from the list of restrictedelectives
not
required for this strand.
Professional Writing Strand
The professional writing strand reflects thevariety of career options in writing taughtwithin the Department of English Languageand Literature. It combines study intechnical communications, journalism, andpublic relations.
Students take all five of these courses:
 JRNL 215: News Writing and Reporting JRNL 312: Introduction to Public RelationsENGL 323: Writing in the Professional WorldENGL 424: Technical Writing (to be revised)ENGL 484: Seminar in WrittenCommunication
Students take one of the followingcourses:
ENGL 354: Critical Digital LiteraciesENGL 427: Technical EditingENGL 428: Writing ComputerDocumentationENGL 444: Writing for the World Wide Web
 
Restricted Elective Courses
:12 Credit hours from the list of restrictedelectives
not
required for this strand.
Technical CommunicationsStrand
The technical communications strand isdesigned for students interested in careersin the ever-expanding fields needingtechnical communicators: documentdesigners, web developers, technicaleditors, project managers, and proposalwriters, just to name a few.
Students take all six of these courses:
ENGL 324: Intro to Technical WritingENGL 424: Technical WritingENGL 427: Technical EditingENGL 428: Writing ComputerDocumentationENGL 444: Writing for the World Wide WebENGL 484: Seminar in WrittenCommunication 
Restricted Elective Courses
:12 Credit hours from the list of restrictedelectives
not
required for this strand.
Restricted Electives
Students in all strands can pick three courses from the following list, but they cannot double count courses required in their specific strand:
ENGL 310: Writing and Civic LiteracyENGL 323: Writing in the Professional WorldENGL 324: Intro to Technical WritingENGL 326: Research WritingENGL 328: Writing, Style, and TechnologyENGL 354: Critical Digital LiteraciesENGL387 Cooperative Education in EnglishENGL 417: Rhetoric and the Written WordENGL 424: Technical WritingENGL 427: Technical EditingENGL 428: Writing Computer DocumentationENGL 444: Writing for the World Wide WebENGL488/489/490 Internship in Technical Writing(1/2/3 hrs) JRNL 215: News Writing and Reporting JRNL 306: Feature Writing JRNL 312: Introduction to Public RelationsCRTW 335: Creative Writing
 
Written Communication at Eastern Michigan University: The Strands
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