In the spring of 2000, Professor Tom Deans guided Kansas State University Expository Writing III students in writing brochures for local non-profit agencies with pressing writing or research needs. Students first developed client relationships with the agencies and followed up with professional quality writing, such as newsletter articles, research reports, web pages, press releases, and so on, that meets the criteria established by the community partner.

Course Description
ENGL 300 Expository Writing 3
Section A: MWF 9:30–D. Smit

??? We will explore how writing depends on different contexts and genre conventions by investigating the writing done in four major communities: the generally literate public, an academic community, a professional or workplace community, and what I call a public forum. We will study the organization and discourse practices of these communities and write up the results of this field work. For each community we will also do some basic stylistic, rhetorical, and critical analyses of the genres these communities use. And finally we will write in one genre used by each of these communities.