Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing
Earn it Online, On Campus or Both
The Arcadia Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing provides the opportunity for learning about forms of business writing in a comfortable academic setting. Three course options are available—fully online, hybrid formats with some online components, or traditional on-campus classrooms. Teachers with professional experience instruct classes, highlighting types of writing dominant in the business world today, emphasizing writing strategies that serve as a foundation for writing in a great variety of professional settings and mediums. Students in the Professional Writing Graduate Certificate program complete a total of 15 to 18 credits that focus on an area of professional interest. Students can easily apply to matriculate to Arcadia University’s Master of Arts in English program following the completion of the Certificate (30 credits).
Develop the Writing Skills Businesses and Industries Need
- Learn the dominant rhetorical styles of professional writing.
- Use current professional writing examples to explore structures and forms of writing for professional arenas.
- Design and write portfolio-quality samples of various types of professional writing.
- Gain insight into writing for technical industries, businesses, the health industry, corporations, non-profit organizations, public relations and the Web.
- EN 414 Writing for Magazines
- EN 415 Technical Writing
- EN 416 Writing for the Health Industry
- EN 418 Journalism
- EN 472.1 Corporate Writing
- EN 472.2 Grant Writing
- EN 472.3 Writing for Law
- EN 472.4 Grammar and Editing
- EN 472.5 Writing for New Media
- CM 317 Public Relations
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