WCOM 550 Business and Professional Communication (3 credits)

Offered by: McGill Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

WCOM : Written and oral communication skills in English for business and professional purposes. Concepts and principles of effective written communication. Planning, composing, editing, and polishing documents of various lengths and formats; conventions of workplace correspondence; direct and indirect approaches to workplace messages; composing routine, persuasive, positive, and negative messages; planning and delivering effective presentations, including creating effective visuals.

Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CCOM 550 or CESL 525; not open to students who have taken or are taking WCOM 555. Open to graduate students, and to undergraduate students in third or fourth year.

  • WCOM 550 is designed for students with fluency in spoken and written English. Students for whom English is a second or additional language should take WCOM 555.

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