Overview

By correspondence, we mean the strategies and contexts writers engage in when writing for various audiences (See Chapter 2 for more about audience). One space writers tend to write is in a public context. Public writing contexts tend to exist where writers study and engage in meaningful social action through written texts. Writers enter public conversations for a number of reasons: to inform a public audience about communal issues, to prompt others to act or effect change, to educate audiences about public policy, to advance the work of the nonprofit sector. Closely related to public writing concepts for more formalization within systems within workplace contexts is professional writing.

Recall from Chapter 1: what is Professional Writing, that professional writing consists of myriad contexts where writers study and engage in problems closely related to the workplace. Writers enter professional conversations for a number of reasons: to inform a professional audience about product or workplace issues, to prompt employers to act or effect change, to educate users about products, to advance the work of the professional sector.