Writing in Management and Business
WRITING REQUIREMENT IN THE MAJOR: Written communication skills are an essential part of education in management and
business. The Management and Business Department is committed to helping students
enhance their writing skills in order to advance their ability to communicate in written
form and to prepare them for their professional careers. While business students are
expected to write at a high level of proficiency throughout the department’s curriculum
(in 100-, 200-, and 300-level courses), students will learn the conventions of writing
in the discipline through an array of assignments in the curriculum including case
study analyses, strategic business proposals, literature reviews, critical essays,
research papers, and financial forecasting and projections. The department provides
each student with an Assessment Criteria Rubric that outlines standards and expectations
for writing assignments in the discipline. While the successful completion of MB214,
MB224, MB306, and MB349 explicitly fulfills the writing requirement in management
and business, the department expects students to demonstrate writing competence in
all departmental courses.