About IUPUI’s  Professional Writing Skills Class (W231)

This class is offered by IUPUI’s School of Liberal Arts that focuses and is based on a student-community client partnership. Students in W231 reach out and connect to clients around the community in order to provide hundreds of hours of research for free to the clients.

 

This class includes independent writing projects throughout the semester as well as a team project that spans over 10 weeks. Independent writing projects include:

• Connecting and interviewing local professionals

• Practices with a variety of different types of professional writing genres (resumes, emails, memos, personal statements, etc)

The ten-week team project, which is the recommendation report on this website, condenses and summarizes over 500 hours of research on an in-house challenged provided by a client in the community. Some of the community organizations who have worked with the W231 class for the team project includes:

• Indiana NBA Pacers

• Eskenazi Hospital

• Boys and Girls Club

• Creekside Counseling

• IUPUI CAPS

• Luthern Church

• Ronald McDonald House

• Bru Burger

 

Notable Statistics and Achievements of W231

W231: Professional Writing Skills includes:

• 44 sections (in which 25 are face-to-face and 19 are hybrid or online)

• over 1,070 students enrolled

Each team is made up of 4-5 students that:

• Partners with over 175 community clients every year

• Creates and distributes a local study that contains at least 50 respondents

• Invests about 200 volunteer hours for each client (100 hours on research and 100 hours on analysis and writing the report)

This means that for all 175 clients, over 35,000 volunteer hours are devoted and invested by the W231 students each year.

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To learn more about the class W231: Professional Writing Skills visit: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/english/pages/writing-program-folder/courses.php#rtab5