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4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the social sciences. By exploring research literature and reflecting on their own experiences, class members identify issues of interest and analyze how texts make claims, invoke other social science literature, offer evidence, and deploy key terms. Through analysis and imitation, students are exposed to the challenges of the social science paper, including the collection of data on human subjects and the ethical presentation of evidence. After they have identified an issue, students plan, research, compose, and revise an extended writing project, modeling their writing on the work in their field. Operates as a workshop, with academic peer review and response modeled by students in the composition and revision of their projects.
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4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the humanities. By exploring critical literature and reflecting on their own experiences, class members identify issues of interest and analyze how texts make claims, invoke primary and secondary texts, offer evidence, and deploy key terms. Through analysis and imitation, students are exposed to the challenges of the humanities paper, including the framing of interpretive questions and the presentation of textual evidence. After they have identified an issue, students plan, research, compose, and revise an extended writing project, modeling their writing on the work in their field. Operates as a workshop, with the practices of academic peer review and response modeled by students in the composition and revision of their projects.
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4.00 Credits
Builds upon courses in the English major by focusing on "writing about literature" as a genre, a kind of writing that has its own history and set of styles and conventions. Students analyze a variety of strategies that readers, including published scholars, use in writing about literature. Students also examine how such strategies are shaped by different literary theories and approaches to texts, as well as by assumptions about what constitutes an argument and what is an appropriate persona or voice to adopt in literary studies. By concentrating on the critical reception of literary texts (that is, the ways in which literature has been read, interpreted, and evaluated over time), students may deepen their understanding of the genre. In a workshop setting, students are given opportunities to develop, write, and revise their own projects as they consider the traditions of, and alternative approaches to, writing about literature.
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4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in writing for students considering legal careers. Introduces students to legal reasoning and to the contexts, purposes, genres, audiences, and styles of legal writing. Emphasizes the role of writing and argument in American legal culture. Using strategies drawn from rhetorical theory and criticism, students examine briefs, memoranda, opinions, and other legal texts to identify and describe techniques of analysis and persuasion. Students produce their own arguments and analyses, attending to appropriateness of approach, genre, structure, evidence, and style. Does not duplicate the content of legal writing courses in law schools, most of which emphasize legal research as well as writing, but instead helps students develop the conceptual frameworks necessary for success in law school and legal careers.
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4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in writing for students considering careers in education. Focuses on representations of teachers and students and their work together as these are portrayed in narrative genres such as memoirs, classroom ethnographies, case studies, and biographies. Drawing on recent critiques of such genres in the humanities and social sciences and on their own academic histories, students analyze the textual and rhetorical choices by which such narratives produce, rather than merely reflect, the meaning of schooling and thus argue (explicitly or implicitly) for particular educational values, identities, practices, and purposes. In a writing workshop setting, students plan, write, critique, revise, and present accounts of their own independent critical research.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on student writing one long paper, often in conjunction with an assigned paper in another course, that is produced in a class booklet at the end of the term. Emphasizes the writing process: multiple drafts, revision, editing, and publication.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to strategies and forms for technical and scientific communication. Emphasizes the production of texts in relation to organizational, social, and cultural contexts.
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4.00 Credits
Explores strategies and forms for technical and scientific communication, with attention to theories of rhetoric and technical communication.
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4.00 Credits
Explores one of a range of topics in rhetorical theory or criticism, such as the rhetoric of science, visual rhetoric, rhetoric and cultural studies, or feminist rhetorical criticism.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on a specialized topic in technical communication, such as risk communication, usability, regulatory writing, or technology and literacy.
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