Prerequisite(s): WRIT 105 or HONP 100. This course is dedicated to intensive, advanced work on public, professional, and technical writing. The course provides sustained attention to achieving clarity of prose, with particular emphasis on editing, style, grammar, syntax, and mechanics. Students develop their skills as writers through drafting, revision,and peer review of original work, as well as through a collaborative editing project. Students analyze their strengths and weaknesses as writers, develop strategies for editing and polishing, and enhance their ability to analyze and construct arguments. The course addresses editing as a contextualized process contingent on modality and audience, and highlights recent trends in professional, scientific, and technical contexts toward plain communication.