Department of Linguistics
Communication in Professions and Organisations Programs
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LING 895: Writing in Professions and Organisations - Not offered in 2010
The unit explores the inner world of the writer and analyses the structures and strategies used by successful writers, showing how to identify and manage the constraints and opportunities that shape professional writing.
LING 947: Discourse in professional and organisational contexts
The unit explores key concepts, issues and practices in professional and organisational communication, drawing on studies in linguistics, discourse analysis, social theory, and the sociology of work and organisations.
LING 948: Evaluating communication systems, processes and products
This unit explores the principles and methods for evaluating communication.
LING 960: Organisational Communication
This unit explores organisational structure in particular patterns of discourse and language use.
LING 956: Acquiring professional communicative expertise
This unit explores the relationship of expertise per se, in a given profession or discipline, with communicative expertise.