Visual Rhetoric and Professional Texts: Designing Professional and Technical Texts at Purdue University

This page is designed to be a resource for instructors of business and technical writing courses at Purdue University. Its goal is to provide examples of documents that incorporate successful visual elements. On the page, you will find examples of memos, resumes, cover letters, white papers, reports, and proposals. Additionally, we are offering brief tutorials for Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher. Click on the appropriate link to find examples of each of these resources.

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Professional Writing
Dept. of English
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Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907

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Fax: 765.494.3780
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Director: Dr. David Blakesley
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ENGL 505M Professor: Dr. Patricia Sullivan
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