303083 (v.5) Professional Writing and Publishing 396 - Professional Practice

Area:	Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits:	50.0
Contact Hours:	192.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Other:	1 x 192 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	301019 (v.5) Writing and the Zeitgeist 210 or any previous version AND 301020 (v.6) Writing, Deception and Authenticity 220 or any previous version AND 301022 (v.4) Writing and Research for Professional Contexts 311 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Open to students in the Professional Writing Major who are in their final semester of study or have made satisfactory progress towards the completion of the Major. Provides an opportunity for students to gain intensive industry experience at the point where their professional writing and publishing skills should be close to the peak of their student abilities. Students are placed 2 days a week over 12 weeks or 3 days a week over 8 weeks. The unit is assessed jointly by the workplace supervisor and the academic supervisor. As part of their assessment, students are required to use their skills to organise the placement in consultation with the unit coordinator.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Area External
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2		Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External