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Welcome to Advanced Professional Communication. This open online course was written for Thompson Rivers University CMNS 3241 and made available to all learners and educators around the world. The course contains learning resources and ungraded activities.

Registered TRU CMNS 3241 students can access graded assessments through TRU Moodle.

In this course, we explore a variety of advanced, strategically orientated forms of professional writing, using theories of rhetoric, analysis of communities of interest, and multimodal design. The course is framed as a progressive project in knowledge mobilization. Students are given a selection of topics to choose from, and then are guided to develop a proposal, a policy brief, and finally a communications package with unique visual communications materials. These documents are tools used to produce and share knowledge of the topic. You will be supported through this progression by the unit content, tasks, and assignments.