Introduction

Welcome to Professional Writing Today: A Functional Approach! This book was written for CMNS 1115: Business Writing at Douglas College, but could also be a valuable textbook for many other undergraduate professional writing courses (and CMNS 1115 transfers as equivalent to many other post-secondary institutions, especially in British Columbia).

This book is available free of charge to any who wish to read it. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Thanks and acknowledgements need to be given to Rebekah Bennetch, Corey Owen, and Zachary Keesey, authors of Effective Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Approach, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Much of Professional Writing Today: A Functional Approach was adapted from their OER textbook.

Bennetch, Owen, and Keesey also acknowledge other works from which they have adapted, as well.

Readers of this text are encouraged to make use of it for their studies and beyond—and to report any typos they find by emailing the author at schechters@douglascollege.ca. Thank you!