Core Skills for Actionable Professional Communication

Abstract

These five modules teach core professional communication concepts, writing strategies, and social media literacy through professionally produced interactive content and activities developed using a course authoring platform. This content also includes a variety of business communication case studies to meet the specialized needs of business, technical, and other professional communication courses at the post-secondary level. Materials are provided in SCORM format, and each module can be integrated with course shells in any major LMS. The modules are entitled: 1) Guiding the Reader; 2) Strategies and Patterns; 3) Rhetoric and Persuasion; 4) Presentations and Collaboration; and 5) Research Skills and Media Literacies. Topics covered often form part of the core curriculum for introductory applied communication courses taught to students in various programs at Ontario colleges and universities. Materials are provided as OERs under a CC BY-NC licence.