Professional Writing
Workshop
Paola Carbone – paola.carbone@iulm.it
Students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) should
communicate their requirements to the teacher so that
compensatory and dispensatory measures can be
evaluated.
Lesson #1
- Course Overview
- The email
- ChatPT for professional writing
Community
https://community.iulm.it/
Professional Writing Workshop
2023-2024
Password: PW2024
Groups and Syllabus
Group 1 A-L – Paola Carbone
Monday 10.30 -13-30
Group 2 – Paola Carbone
Thursday 15.00 - 18.00
Group1 A Prof. Caterina Bocchi (room 141) - Group 1B Prof. Dr
Silvia Velardi (room 144)
Group2 A Prof. Caterina Bocchi (room 142)- Group 2B Prof. Roberta
Bogni (room 532)
Check
Groups-syllabus.xlt in the Community for subgroups A and B and
syllabus
Prof. Carbone: new topics + how to use ChatGPT for professional writing
Prof. Bocchi, Velardi, Bogni: written text + ChatGPT to improve your writing
skills
You are required to upload in the community your classworks, including the
tests verified by ChatGPT. To be classified as an attending student, it is
essential to have an attendance rate of at least 80%, which requires the
completion of a minimum of 3 class papers and 2 interim tests.
All attending students will be allowed to take a test at the end of each class
cycle (November and December), which will be assessed. The average of
the marks will count as the final grade.
Non-attending students will take a three-hour computer-based examination
without the use of the Internet, during which they will have to produce two
texts covered in class.
Certainly, during the first test, you will
not have access to the internet.
If you require a monolingual dictionary,
you may utilize a physical, paper-based
dictionary.
see pdf of the book index
in the community
Released Oct 13th
Bibliography
In addition to all the material (handouts, Power Points presentations, etc.)
made available during the course:
MacRAE Paul, Business and Professional Writing. A Basic Guide,
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario 2019.
CARBONE, Paola and Pellicanò, Antonia, ChatGPT for Professional
Writing: Prompts, Theory and Practice, Dino Audino editore, Roma, 2023.
STRUNK, William, WHITE, EB, The Elements of Style, fourth edition, Allyn
& Bacon, Boston, 2000 (also available online:
http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf).
The written works will be assessed according to the following criteria:
Task Completion: Evaluation based on the relevance of the response to the given
question, content quality, and argumentation.
Coherence and Cohesion: Assessment of clarity in conveying information, text
organization, adherence to the appropriate format, effective paragraphing, the use
of linking/transition words, and proper referencing.
Vocabulary and Grammar: Evaluation of the range, flexibility, and accuracy of
language use, including spelling, punctuation, syntax, collocations, and register.
Bonus: An additional consideration for the overall impression.
These marking criteria align with the standards used in the IELTS (International English
Language Testing System) scoring.
The question is why taking an exam in
professional writing?
?
Because, professionally, we cannot
do without writing
3 opportunities:
- to improve the skills acquired
- to deal with different types of texts
- to improve your awareness of professional writing
Which texts?

Email

Company profile – About us

Press Release

Persuasive letter

Speech writing
+ Artificial Intelligence
+ Documents design
Goal. Promote health for all through a healthy environment.
Overview. Humans interact with the environment constantly. These interactions
affect quality of life, years of healthy life lived, and health disparities. The
World Health Organization (WHO) defines environment, as it relates to health, as
“all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all
the related behaviors.”1 Environmental health consists of preventing or
controlling disease, injury, and disability related to the interactions between
people and their environment.
The Healthy People 2020 Environmental Health objectives focus on 6 themes,
each of which highlights an element of environmental health: Outdoor air
quality; Surface and ground water quality; Toxic substances and hazardous
wastes; Homes and communities; Infrastructure and surveillance; Global
environmental health.
Creating healthy environments can be complex and relies on continuing research
to better understand the effects of exposure to environmental hazards on
people’s health.
Why Is Environmental Health Important? Maintaining a healthy environment is
central to increasing quality of life and years of healthy life. Globally, 23% of all
deaths and 26% of deaths among children under age 5 are due to preventable
environmental factors.1 Environmental factors are diverse and far reaching.
They include: Exposure to hazardous substances in the air, water, soil, and food;
Natural and technological disasters; Climate change; Occupational hazards; The
built environment.
I. GOAL 1st level heading
Goal 2nd level heading
Promote health for all through a healthy environment.
Overview 2nd level heading
Humans interact with the environment constantly. These interactions affect quality of life, years of
healthy life lived, and health disparities. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines
environment, as it relates to health, as “all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external
to a person, and all the related behaviors.”1 Environmental health consists of preventing or
controlling disease, injury, and disability related to the interactions between people and their
environment.
The Healthy People 2020 Environmental Health objectives focus on 6 themes, each of which highlights
an element of environmental health:
1.Outdoor air quality
2.Surface and ground water quality
3.Toxic substances and hazardous wastes
4.Homes and communities
5.Infrastructure and surveillance
6.Global environmental health
Creating healthy environments can be complex and relies on continuing research to better understand
the effects of exposure to environmental hazards on people’s health.
Why Is Environmental Health Important? 2nd level heading
Maintaining a healthy environment is central to increasing quality of life and years of healthy life.
Globally, 23% of all deaths and 26% of deaths among children under age 5 are due to preventable
environmental factors.1 Environmental factors are diverse and far reaching. They include:
•Exposure to hazardous substances in the air, water, soil, and food
•Natural and technological disasters
•Climate change
The Mantra
Choose the right information,
write with insight,
communicate successfully!