This course is a college/university composition and communications course designed to review grammar and rhetoric, and to introduce business administration students to the forms of writing essential to functioning in management and commerce, both in the public and private spheres. The course teaches basic reading and writing skills as a foundation for the mastery of the analysis and interpretation of business and technical materials. It covers basic grammar, vocabulary development, spelling and mechanics, the paragraph, and the essay, and initiates students into the primary business writing forms of the letter, memo, report, and proposal.