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The Role of a Professional Writer: Navigating Communication and Collaboration

Professional writers serve as essential communicators within organizations, acting as document publishers, journalists, and mediators. They harness their rhetorical skills to produce impactful content, ensuring that documents meet expected standards and contextual requirements. Their value lies in their inside knowledge, the ability to weave together different departmental perspectives, and their commitment to continuous development. Adapting to diverse audiences and promoting informed decision-making are critical for future writers. By mastering these roles, they become invaluable assets in any professional setting.

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The Role of a Professional Writer: Navigating Communication and Collaboration

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  1. Professional Writers: Rhetorical Engineers Brad Fawaz

  2. Roles of a Writer: • Document Publishing • Communicator • Journalist • Department Mediator

  3. Report Findings • Common Conclusions: • Value of inside knowledge • Meeting expected structure/detail (developing proper context) • Weaver (Working between Departments/Academia) • Collaborative foundation for action

  4. What is a Professional Writer? • Brain to the organizational body • User of rhetorical tools to produce anticipated response/outcome (engineering opinion) • Primary ennobler of information, understanding, and perspective

  5. Development as a PW • Continuous progression • Not “how to write that report, but will be able to figure out how to write it” from academia (Gee) • “…more a matter of developing strategies for social and intellectual adaptations to different professional communities than acquiring a set of generic skills” (Forsberg)

  6. Challenges for the Future Writer • Expected to understand context from reader’s perspective • Develop context around audience(s) via experience in and out of the classroom • “To promote action and to inform decision making” (MacKinnon)

  7. A Rhetorical Engineer’s Toolbox • As the essential guider of professional action, you must keep proper implementation of the following in mind:

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