During your first-year in the Professional Writing and English & Professional Writing programs, you’ll become part of a community of writers who learn to recognize and communicate in a variety of genres and styles appropriate to their audience.

Our first-year courses introduce you to university culture and provide you with a foundation that prepares you for assignments in the next level of the program. In small tutorials, you’ll have an opportunity to get to know other students in your program.

PRWR 1003 6.00
Professional Writing: An Introduction

Course Director (2024-2025): Professor Andrea McKenzie

Professional Writing: An Introduction introduces you to the exciting world of writing in different media and genres for different audiences. Writing is power, and learning to analyze a variety of texts, images, and multi-media productions enables you to craft your own pieces reflectively, with critical thinking and creative design. Whether you’re looking to enhance your skills in academic writing or for private industry and organizations, we’ll help you do just that. This course introduces the Professional Writing programs’ special areas, from personal essays and non-fiction to digital writing and videos. Along the way, you’ll learn how to read and incorporate other people’s writing and cite it, how to use reflection to deepen your own ideas, and how to use text, image, and sound in multi-media pieces. Writing is learning for life, and this course opens up the world of writing to you.

PRWR 1004 3.00
Research for Professional Writers

Course Director (2024-2025): Professor Stevie Bell

Professional writers have got to be on their toes when it comes to the quality and accuracy of their work. In this course, you’ll learn how to be original and create intellectual property you can be proud of! Together, we’ll experiment with strategies for: finding, evaluating, and engaging with sources; categorizing and using types of sources and research methods; and fact checking information, including images and videos. Get ready for generative AI to take centre stage in this course as the newest research tool (and challenge) for professional writers. Assignments will be challenging, fun, and experimental.

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Why Professional Writing?

Our students go on to excel in a variety of exciting professional positions. Professional Writing alumni have the following titles:

• Digital Marketing Coordinator
• Learning Experience Designer
• Operations Specialist
• Content Management & Development
• Web Designer
• Social Media Manager
• Digital Project Manager
• Scientific Writer
• Technical Writer
• Brand Ambassador
• Creative Copywriter
• Story Coordinator

Many students also pursue post-graduate degrees and diplomas. Recent graduates have gone into the following programs:

• Publishing
• Professional Writing
• Rhetoric and Communications Design
• Communications Studies
• Marketing and Advertising
• Creative & Digital Public Relations Strategy
• Education
• Library and Information Studies
• Technical and Scientific Communications
• Screenwriting

Programs & Degree Pathways

Our Community

A note from our faculty:

We're so excited to work and learn with you! We're committed to your success in the program and beyond.

We're always thinking of new ways to design courses that are as fun and interesting as they are challenging.

We love the ingenuity and dedication of Professional Writing students! Many of our students have won writing awards, received grants, and gained research assistantships - you can too!

See you in class!

A note from our staff:

We are always here ready to support you! We've got the answers to all of your questions, and we're only a phone call or email away.

We're always refining our communications to make sure you have precisely what you need to successfully navigate the program.

See you in South Ross!

A note from our students:

Join us! We're living it up in the program. We're super active in the Professional Writing Students' Association. Our student webzine, , is an amazing space to get your work published. A lot of us are also working hard on Existere, a literary journal we run with faculty advisors. There's so much for you to do (along with studying). There's never a dull moment!

We're always here for each other, which makes such a big difference at a big school like 91��ɫ.

See you on !

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“Many individuals have had to give up certain aspects of their careers or alter future plans. This conscious decision to give up career goals or to reshape and accommodate for work-life realities is defined as career sacrifice,” Zikic says, in the article.

Read the article in .

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“There are different ways to be pet-friendly. It might not involve dogs at work, but having more flexible hours so owners can take their dogs for walks or maybe having a doggy daycare on site,” Ezzedeen explained, in the article.

Read the in The Toronto Star.

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The talk, facilitated by the International Labour Organization, Office For the United States & Canada and the Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington D.C., will bring together policymakers, representatives of inter-government organizations, and academics to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of working condition challenges in supply chains. The seminar also creates the opportunity to discuss effective solutions and policy options.

If you are interested in attending this event, you can register for the seminar and browse the full agenda below.

Agenda

Session 1

Current Challenges and Responses

Moderator:  Ms. Gabriela Inchauste –&�Բ�����;Lead Economist, Poverty, and Equity Global Practice, World Bank

Professor Raymond Robertson&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Director, Mosbacher Institute, The Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University

Professor Kelly Pike&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;School of Human Resource Management, 91��ɫ 

Ms. Gale Raj Reichardt - Research Fellow, WZB

Ms. Fabiola Mieres - Technical Officer, Labour Migration, ILO

Conversation with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai

Advancing Equitable Economic Growth and Worker Voice

Moderator:  Professor Raymond Robertson&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Director, Mosbacher Institute, The Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University   

Ambassador Katherine Tai&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;United States Trade Representative (in-person)

Mr. Kevin Cassidy&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the United States and Canada

Session 2

Looking Forward: New Approaches and Opportunities

Moderator:  Ms. Deborah Albers – Vice President of Operations, Responsible Business Alliance(invited);

Mr. Josh Kagan –&�Բ�����;Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor, Office of the United States Trade Representative

Mr. Peter Young&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Deputy Head of the Trade and Agriculture Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United States

Mr. Scott Nova&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Executive Director, Worker Rights Consortium

Professor Jodi Short&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Associate Dean for Research & Professor of Law, UC Hastings Law

Ms. Arianna Rossi&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����;Senior Research and Policy Specialist, Better Work, IL

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School of Human Resources Management alumna, (BHRM ’17), was named in this year’s batch of outstanding alumni. 

Durham is a senior recruiter, career coach, content creator and public speaker with a passion for making career education accessible. As a recruiter both in the finance and technology space, Emily connected with hundreds of candidates every week and noticed that people early in their careers often felt ill-equipped to answer common interview questions and struggled with the application process.

To help prepare candidates for their interviews, Emily began to produce and host The Straight Shooter Recruiter podcast, offering step-by-step support for job seekers. With the growth of the podcast, Emily expanded her mission of demystify all things careers to Instagram and TikTok with a reach of 3+ million. Most recently, Emily has been featured in The Financial Post, Bay Street Bull, Narcity and Canadian Business Magazine for her work around career education.  

Launched in 2021, 91��ɫ’s Top 30 Alumni Under 30 program seeks to highlight the success and diversity of the University’s alumni community, while inspiring the next generation of young alumni leaders to make a positive difference locally and globally.

For more information on the 2022 Top 30 Alumni Under 30, visit the website.

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“All this amount of commuting that we did pre-pandemic, for the most part (employees) assumed the cost thereof. Now there’s a greater likelihood that we’re going to renegotiate the cost of that commute,” she said, in the article.

Read the in The Toronto Star.

Professor Ezzedeen was also featured in the Toronto Star article, , that discussed the impact of a shortened work week.

Read the in The Toronto Star.

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Convery’s talk will equip you with knowledge on how to:

• Network effectively at events;
• Learn the dos and don’ts of successful networking and;
• Gain skills to be the best version of professional self.

Convery is a purpose-driven, people-centric executive with over three decades of experience. Join this talk to learn how to elevate your networking skills from an accomplished alumnus.

Students in HRM can register for the Network Node program and read Convery’s full biography on Network Node.

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The article explores how unionizing will affect Uber drivers and what the implications of unionizing could be down the line.

“It’s a bad look for a union to enter into a secret top-down agreement with a company for worker representation rights without disclosing the terms of the agreement to the very workers affected,” Doorey says in the article.

Read the on The Toronto Star website. Please note a subscription is required to view this content.

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In the article, titled, , Alam, Singh and Pike presented a qualitative analysis of the experience of multi-level labour regulation in Bangladesh’s ready-made garments (RMG) sector after the deadly disaster of Rana Plaza collapse.

Their work contributes to the debate among policy makers and scholars over how best to improve workers’ safety and rights in globally dispersed production networks.

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