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3.00 Credits
Study of the various grammars and the controversies surrounding them. Attention will be given to the history and growth of language, the artistic language of literature, and the basic vocabulary of language arts (e.g., style, rhetoric, linguistics, semantics, and technical versus artistic language).
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the creative possibilities of language. Through both a theoretical discussion and practical application, we will examine how basic elements of writing, such as diction - including figurative language - syntax, structure, and rhetorical style,express and modulate meaning in a variety of writing forms. Students will analyze, create, and critique imaginative pieces, including advertising copy, written speeches, song lyrics, technical articles, short fiction poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of research, writing the thesis/ project proposal, and initial thesis/project drafting. The course explores primary and secondary research methods. Course content includes in-depth and formal interviewing techniques, principles of field observation, content analysis, literature reviews, electronic data searches, historical analysis, focus groups, case studies, questionnaire design, use and abuse of statistical inquiry, fundamentals of logic and causation, and philosophical inquiry into qualitative and quantitative research perspectives. The course places major emphasis on how to write a proposal and thesis/project aimed at eventual publication.
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3.00 Credits
Theory and practice of teaching secondary English in its three dominant areas of reading, writing, and rhetorical analysis of literary works. Special focus will be on how students acquire language and theoretical skills within the complex milieu of classrooms and how teachers can enhance that learning by translating sound theory into a broad range of learning activities and classroom strategies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Approval of instructor and graduate program director Course number for graduate students, under special circumstances, to take a maximum of two 300-400 level undergraduate courses for graduate credit. Students cannot do “independent study”; they must take a course, and arrange with the instructor to do more writing than required of the undergraduates to justify the graduate level credit. This option is not intended for students needing to make up deficiencies in order to perform at an appropriate level in graduate courses, but as an opportunity for students to explore specialized areas of interest. Before registering, students must write a proposal that clearly delineates the writing projects they will undertake. May be repeated once with change of content.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the many purposes, audiences, forms, and formats of technical documents and professional correspondence. They will receive practice in writing and designing a variety of documents to achieve worthwhile content, sensible organization, and readable style. Focus will be on techniques of audience-and-use analysis to adjust a message’s level of technicality to the needs and background of its audience. Focus throughout is on writing as a deliberate process of deliberate decisions.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive research into funding sources, analysis and interpretation of guidelines and writing several drafts of grant proposals. This specialized rhetorical form involves analyzing complex audiences and learning persuasive techniques unique to grants writing.
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3.00 Credits
The theory and practice of style as a writer’s “way of seeing.” By analyzing and emulating outstanding contemporary prose, we develop a style vocabulary, and we explore possible “voices” for expressive, explanatory, or persuasive writing. Reading, writing, and editing assignments focus on the enduring qualities of forceful, readable, and emphatic style: clarity, conciseness, fluency, exactness, and engaging tone, among a wide array of syntactic and semantic elements that help make writing make a difference.
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3.00 Credits
The proliferation of computers has led to the rampant growth of documentation requirements and an increased demand for writers capable of addressing various audiences with clarity and precision. In this course, we will concentrate on documentation standards and guidelines, documentation management and control and document preparation. Among the topics covered will be documentation requirements in the design, development and life cycle of a system; forms management and design considerations; software documentation requirements and the techniques used to prepare effective and efficient documents.
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3.00 Credits
Problems, issues, and rhetorical strategies in authoring effective Web pages and content. The primary focus of the course is in authoring hypertext and hypermedia documents for the World Wide Web. In the process, students grapple with a host of problems related to effective non-linear writing, efficient and user-friendly interface design, and inventive mixing of text, graphics, video, sound, animation, and navigational components to achieve the most dynamic messages possible within the many constraints of hardware and software.
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