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Hello everyone! My name is Shelby Shelton and I am exactly 17 days away from graduating beautiful Longwood University. It seems like yesterday I was signing up for my first communication studies and English courses. I was privileged to recently intern for Longwood University’s Office of Institutional Advancement and Development my senior year. Through this internship and courses within my major of Communication Studies and minor in English, I have developed a true interest in professional writing and the different areas associated within the discipline.

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Within this blog you will find a collection of my personal, professional documents created for my ENGL 470 ~ Professional Writing course. I believe that I have close to mastered the art of participating both productively and efficiently within collaborative projects. Along with accomplishing Course Learning Outcome – #5, relating directly to Course Learning Outcomes – #2 and #4, I feel that I have also enhanced my skills in creating professional documents using plain language while also creating designs within those documents that use complex format and professional graphics such as graphs, statistical figures, etc.  

Course Learning Outcomes (to address in your reflective essay):

  1. Analyze and produce writing genres commonly found in the professional world (e.g., business, gov., media);
  2. Create professional documents that use plain English (clear, concise, and grammatically correct);
  3. Conduct research to create content for a variety of professional documents (memos, letters, reports, etc.);
  4. Create professional documents that uses design—standard formats, layout, use of graphics, etc.
  5. Practice oral communication skills to present content effectively (enhanced with multimedia tools);
  6. Participate productively in collaborative projects.