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3.00 Credits
Fall-Spring Semesters This course provides students with guided practice in the types of analytical reading necessary for mature academic writing and for success in upper-division courses in all disciplines. Students will learn strategies for summarizing and analyzing complex reading materials, and for incorporating reading material into their own writing. They will also analyze similarities and differences in various academic styles, develop processes for producing thoughtfully revised prose, and practice standard conventions of the academic writing. 3 credit hours.
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Fall-Spring Semesters Building upon the reading skills learned in WRT102, this course provides students with guided practice in writing academic papers. Students will learn techniques crucial to the writing required in upper division courses: limiting and focusing a topic and line of inquiry; developing and following a research plan; incorporating researched materials into a scholarly argument; developing a consistent and appropriate style; and revising carefully toward a polished product. Prerequisite: WRT102 with a grade of 2 or better. 3 credit hours.
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This course offers students further expertise beyond that offered in WRT102 and WRT202 in applying rhetorical techniques and problem-solving skills to the types of writing done in professional sites. Students will create professional documents (letters, memos, reports, cover letter/resume, electronic communication) appropriate to each case or scenario. They will also learn about effective document design and presentation used in business and industry and about copyright and other ethical issues associated with professional writing. Prerequisite: WRT102 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester This course provides guided experience in reading and writing across a range of academic disciplines, including the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and business-related fields. Students will analyze the modes of reasoning, rhetorical techniques, and forms of writing that are currently accepted in each of these fields with the goal of becoming more versatile writers. This course is required for Professional Writing majors and minors, but is open to students from all fields who wish to improve their writing skills. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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This course introduces students to the principles of playwriting. Students read a number of monologues and short plays, explore different theories of playwriting, and write a monologue, a short scene, and a one-act play. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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This course provides students with guided experience in methods for teaching writing in both classroom settings and in tutoring sessions. Students will learn about current methodologies for the teaching and tutoring of writing and will work with experienced teachers and tutors towards practical application of those methods. Students will read and discuss current articles on writing pedagogy, observe composition classrooms, and shadow tutoring sessions with experienced teachers of writing. Students who successfully complete WRT 290 are eligible to become writing tutors in the Learning Resource Center. Prerequisite: WRT102 3 credit hours.
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Crucial to the study of professional writing is rhetoric, the art of composing effective discourse. Students will be introduced to significant issues and figures in the academic discipline of rhetoric. Students will be asked to develop a working definition of rhetoric and to study significant texts from the history of rhetoric, including those written by the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, St. Augustine, and Virginia Woolf. Questions concerning whether or not language shapes/defines reality and creates knowledge will be considered. Students will also be introduced to non-Western rhetorics. Prerequisite: WRT102 3 credit hours.
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This course is a writing seminar for students interested in developing their imaginative writing powers. Students will read the work of published authors, write in a number of genres, and critique their own and others' writing using a workshop method. Prerequisite: WRT102 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course provides instruction and practice aimed at helping students to further develop their expository writing skills, to examine their writing processes, and to critique their own and others' papers. This course focuses especially upon the development of advanced stylistic techniques. Prerequisite: WRT102 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the field of webpage design within the context of professional writing. Students will study online publications such as electronic newsletters and magazines and online help files, and learn to produce documents suitable for electronic publication. The course emphasizes principles in designing, writing, and producing publications using such current authoring tools as the hypertext mark-up language (HTML). Prerequisites: WRT102, WRT210, WRT225, or permission of instructor. 3 credit hours.
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