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Roslyn Petelin

Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland

About me

Honorary Associate Professor Roslyn Petelin designed and established the post-graduate Writing, Editing & Publishing Program in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland in 2000. Prior to this, she taught Literature and Film at the Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers’ College and Writing and Speech Communication in the Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology and in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University (USA). She is a past President and Honorary Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and has consulted extensively on writing, editing, and information design to public and private sector organisations in Australia, the UK, the USA, and S. E. Asia. In 2014, she developed and launched WRITE101x. Since then, close to 800,000 students have enrolled in the course. In 2016, she published her third book How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing , which explores the concepts covered in WRITE101x, as well as writing for social media, online publication, university, and the workplace. The second edition of How Writing Works was published by Routledge (UK) in 2022.

Courses and Programs taught by Roslyn Petelin