要求技术和专业作家将思想，技术，产品和服务与需要了解这些发展或使用它们的人们联系起来。技术和专业写作计划可以通过主要，次要和证书计划为学生做好担任关键沟通角色的准备。技术和专业作家几乎在工业和公共生活的各个领域工作，包括高科技产业，商业，政府，研究和非营利组织。这些职业作家不仅可以在不同的媒体上编写和编辑多种类型的文档，而且有时还可以设计出版物，管理和评估文档和交流项目，并监督开发，生产和发行过程。可选的跨学科课程通常包括应用写作或编辑，语言学，组织交流，图形设计和制作，多媒体或计算机工具，商务外语或与工
Technical and professional writers are in demand to link ideas, technologies, products, and services with people who need to understand those developments or to use them. The Technical and Professional Writing Program can prepare students for that critical communications role through major, minor, and certificate programs. Technical and professional writers work in almost every field of industry and public life, including high-technology industries, business, government, and research and non-profit organizations. These career writers not only write and edit many types of documents in different media, but also sometimes design publications, manage and evaluate documentation and communication projects, and oversee development, production, and distribution processes. Optional interdisciplinary course work typically would cover applied writing or editing, linguistics, organizational communication, graphic design and production, multimedia or computer tools, foreign language for business, or special topics related to workplace writing.