By joining a school like Epitech, students begin high-level specialized training to become experts in computer science and new technologies. But in this field, recruiters now require good writing skills in addition to technical know-how. This requirement has become an inseparable priority from IT skills.
In companies, there are many written materials. A large part of the graduate's work will be to understand, help and express the needs of users through mock-ups, emails, memos..... With this module, Epitech gives everyone the opportunity to strengthen their writing skills. Far from the dictated schemes - literature - essays, these courses are designed to specialize students in writing professional documents.
A professional writing is linked to a need to inform about an idea, a project, an implementation, a meeting... It is useful to everyone: the company, teams, customers, partners, investors, and all stakeholders. It takes different forms (memo, email, report, slideshow, white paper...). It refers objectively to the past, it is effective in the present and it should serve as a reference for the future.
This seminar, which extends over the Bachelor's cycle (3 years), offers methods and know-how to improve the effectiveness of his professional writing. Knowing how to write concise and precise texts, in a controlled tone, well adapted to the interlocutor and the situation, structuring their texts, arguing, are all skills used by students. Flexibility exercises, diagnostics and personalized tutoring are the key to the success of this seminar led by Juliette Gibert (journalist and adult trainer). It includes 4 qualifying modules.
The objectives of the seminar are therefore to teach the future professional to be simple and punchy, to adapt to his interlocutor, to give as much importance to the content as to the form and to work well both but also to control the quality of a text before any transmission. At the end of the seminar, students must have a fluid, simple, readable and direct writing style.
The difficulty of projects and requirements is increasing throughout the 4 modules. The whole is designed as a journey where the skills acquired during a project are applied and developed during a subsequent project.
Each project presents a realistic professional situation similar to what students will encounter during their career. The realization of each project is supported by a lecture course and 2 TDs.
Each project is evaluated by peers during face-to-face sessions, led by the teaching team, on the basis of quality criteria: text structure, drafting quality and presentation quality. Spelling is an important requirement since beyond a certain number of errors, a malus is triggered.