About IUPUI’s W231 Professional Writing Skills
W231 Professional Writing Skills is offered by the Writing Program at IUPUI’s School of Liberal Arts. The course focuses on a student/community client partnership. Students in W231 reach out and connect with clients around Indianapolis then provide hundreds of hours of exploration, research, and analysis at no charge to community partners. The experience-based course combines academic rigor and community service; the curriculum challenges students to analyze and innovate then pitch practical recommendations to address workplace problems.
 
W231 includes independent writing projects throughout the semester as well as a team project that spans 10 weeks. Independent writing projects include:
Connecting with and interviewing local professionals
Practicing a variety of different types of professional writing genres (emails, memos, letters, recommendation reports, etc)
The ten-week team project, which is the recommendation report on this website, condenses and summarizes over 100 hours of research on an in-house challenge provided by our community client.