专业和技术写作硕士学位可让研究生在至少三个集中领域之一中发展深厚的专业知识：专业和学术编辑，非小说类写作和教学，技术写作。全日制学生通常在2.5年内完成该课程。兼读制学生通常会在3-4年内完成课程，具体取决于他们是否选择参加暑期班。可以分析各种修辞情况并创建在每种情况下均能发挥最佳作用的文档。有效地创建和提供具有说服力，信息量大，引人入胜的文本并探索技术作为修辞背景的技术。了解其专业的历史和主要理论，了解其工艺规则是如何形成的以及如何变化的。
The MA in Professional and Technical Writing enables graduate students to develop a deep expertise in at least one of three concentration areas: Professional and academic editing, Nonfiction writing and teaching, Technical writing.Students who are enrolled full time typically complete the program in 2.5 years. Students who are enrolled part-time typically complete the program in 3 - 4 years, depending on whether they choose to take summer classes.can analyze a wide range of rhetorical situations and create documents that will work best in each particular situation.use technology effectively to create and deliver persuasive, informative, engaging texts and explore technologies as rhetorical contexts.understand the history and major theories of their profession, know how the rules of their craft were shaped and how they are changing.