The Professional Writing Program at UNI

At UNI, students taking the Professional Writing Minor gain experience in designing a variety of professional documents (such as Web sites, manuals, and reports), writing in scientific and technical contexts, editing in a professional capacity, and creating digital documentation. The minor is rhetorically focused, reflecting the professional communication field's humanistic roots (as appropriate for a program housed in the Department of English), yet it also addresses the needs of today's workplace.

The UNI Professional Writing Program keeps pace with today’s exponentially growing professional communication field. The past decade alone has seen this field rapidly expand and its identity coalesce, as an increasing number of industries and organizations recognize the crucial role of communication in professional contexts.

The professional communication field dovetails with but is distinct from business communication, journalism, and communication studies fields. Specifically, while students in these fields often learn to communicate as a component of their work, students taking the Professional Writing Minor learn to communicate as their work.