Professional Writing

At university, you’re not just developing your skills in writing for academic purposes. You’re developing your skills in writing for different audiences, for different purposes, in different ways, and with different kinds of outcome. These transferable skills may well stay with you longer after you leave university than the details of the nervous system, or how to build a hadron collider.

This section explores some of the main forms of writing you might encounter in or around universities, which may or may not form part of your assessment:

• Professional Letters
• Newsletters
• Emails

These all rely on the generic writing skills and draw on other skills sets and ways of behaving at university. It’s essential to engage with these skills throughout your studies, and think about how they relate to your development as a Sheffield graduate and lifelong learner. Where would you like to start?