This course prepares students extensively for persuasive writing in the workplace, enabling them to become effective writers and communicators in a digitally interconnected world. It provides students with a wide exposure to various workplace genres and how these are influenced by the audience, purpose and context. Students learn to write workplace texts and to develop a sensitivity to choose the most appropriate mode and medium to achieve communication goals. The course also offers students a strong linguistic and communication grounding, enabling them to critically analyze various workplace genres and develop the transferable skills and strategies needed to approach any unfamiliar texts. Using rhetorical moves, students learn to organize their writing effectively. This course emphasizes writing as a social process and writing as also team based. Students will equip themselves with strategies to give, receive and respond to feedback, and to collaborate effectively with others.