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3.00 Credits
COMP 280 focuses on instruction and practice in composing and designing business documents, including abstracts, memos, email, letters, reports, resumes, proposals, and slide presentations. Students study the rhetorical problems facing business professionals and learn practical strategies for analyzing business information and communicating with professional and non-professional audiences. Such strategies include those related to the use of electronic resources, peer-review and revision. This course fulfills the Composition II requirement for pre-business students.
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Students learn to identify, understand and use the techniques of fiction in the service of nonfiction material. While studying the texts as literature, students are also encouraged to view them as models for writing. Assignments include the writing and revising of articles, based on research and interviews, and writing in story form, drawing on literary techniques. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
A study of rhetorical theory and its application to various types of expository essays. Writing assignments will reflect the types of essays studied. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Course introduces the technical, social, legal and ethical practice of online research, focusing specifically on reporting (i.e. research and interview) skills required by journalists and others. Students use new media technology to generate ideas, to research subjects, and to develop general-audience writing projects in their areas of interest. Course covers the use of Web search engines, directories and databases; finding sources and interviewing people online; evaluating the credibility of online sources and information; using Lexis-Nexis to access archives and public records; and using spreadsheet and database programs.
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3.00 Credits
In Writing for Civic Literacy, students will study how politicians, the media and critical citizens use language to engage with the broader community. Students themselves will learn to use language to become more active, well-informed citizens. They will study rhetorical awareness, audience analysis and persuasive writing techniques and put those lessons to use in community settings. They will perform community service at agencies of their choosing and use those experiences as objects of analysis, researching the social context in which those agencies operate and writing analytically about the agencies. Further, students will synthesize classroom lessons and real-world experience by executing writing tasks for and with the agencies (these tasks might include editorials for the local press, informational webpages and fundraising materials).
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3.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of rhetoric and composition. Title as listed in Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topic differs. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Topic: Teaching Writing: Theory & Practice. This course will help prepare students for success as teachers and tutors of writing through sustained focus on the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching of composition as the postsecondary level. The course also will help students make explicit connections between the teaching and learning of writing in various classroom contexts and other sites of literacy work. A range of writing projects will provide students with opportunities to develop as reflective and critical writers.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A significant writing project in non-fiction or fiction prose developed in accordance with the needs and interest of those enrolled and agreed upon by the instructor. Participants may also study texts of published authors. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
A course in narrative non-fiction that focuses on memoir and travel writing. Reading involves several books as well as classic essay-length examples. Assignments include both short analytical papers and the writing and revising of three original articles, based on research, interviews, memory, and observation, and drawing on literary techniques. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
An examination of contemporary rhetorical theories through study of representative practitioners and related developments in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, communication, and composition and rhetoric. Students may not receive credit for both COMP 464 and COMP 564.
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