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The Major Core
The four course core is required of all Writing and Rhetoric Majors.
WRT 255: Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing (3 credits)Anchor 255 255
Catalog Description: Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors and Minors
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WRT 302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing (3 credits) Anchor 302 302
Catalog Description: Practice in writing in digital environments. May include document and web design, multimedia, digital video, weblogs. Introduction to a range of issues, theories, and software applications relevant to such writing. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors
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Catalog Description: Introduction to theories and methods of writing consultation. Topics include: social dynamics, grammar, ESL, LD, argumentation, critical reading, writing process. Practices: observations, role playing, peer groups, one-on-one. Writing intensive. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices
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The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery? (Lois Agnew, Fall 2009; regularized as WRT 413)
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Catalog Description: Builds on technical writing fundamentals, focusing on practical techniques and extensive practice designing and writing technical product/process documents. Includes audience assessment, task analyses, use-case scenarios, usability testing, and end-use documentation.Additional work required of graduate students (WRT 617). 3 credits :: Double Numbered with WRT 617 :: Genres and Practices
Outcomes
Students will understand varied definitions of usability and user-centered design principles. They will design and conduct usability testing of digital texts and navigation processes.
Students will develop technical documentation for real artifacts and processes in use by clients.
Students will investigate and use a variety of usability research methods including usability testing, heuristic evaluation, interviewing, and observation.
Students will work with transferrable approaches to audience analysis and strategic revision of extant multi-part texts.
Students will develop a broad vocabulary and understanding of the ways that user-centered design rhetorically impacts texts.
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Catalog Description: Particular topics in the analysis and practice of creative nonfiction. Attention to cultural contexts and authorship. Possible genres include memoir, travel writing, nature writing, experimental or hybrid writing, and the personal essay. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Genres and Practices
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate an understanding of creative nonfiction as a genre within specific historical and cultural contexts.
Students will study, explore, and practice varied techniques and strategies of creative nonfiction
Students will explore one or more creative nonfiction subgenres in depth.
Students will have articulated individual ethical guidelines relating to the concept and use of creative nonfiction.
Thorley Syllabus and Materials
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