For students with an interest in professional, academic, creative and technical writing, this new coursework-based master’s degree allows students to specialise and deepen their expertise. Students will apply skills of advanced textual analysis and written communication to a wide range of contexts, audiences, and styles, and also connect their studies to the community and the workplace. By bringing together a diverse range of writing modes, graduates of the new Master of Writing degree will be set up for diverse careers, from business to government. Students of this new highly versatile degree will study, produce, and be assessed on their professional, technical, and fiction and non-fiction writing.

Graduates of this new applied master’s degree will be able to: apply advanced skills in writing to a range of professional, technical, organisational, community, and creative contexts; write effectively within a range of registers and genres, and for a range of purposes; respond to the requirements of different audiences and media; engage the creative dimensions of professional writing and the professional dimensions of creative writing; undertake research relevant to their writing tasks; analyse critically the writing of others and apply what they discover to their own writing; provide editorial advice for other writers; understand and articulate the implications of being a writer in Aotearoa New Zealand/Niu Sila, especially in regard to te ao me te reo Māori and the Pasifika philosophy of teu le va.