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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
Outcomes
Students will read and analyze texts on rhetorical theories and practices of effective argumentation.
Students will study arguments from a variety of genres and sources.
Students will analyze central aspects of arguments[KK1] , including authority, context, audience, visual design, and interfaces.
Students will engage in analytical research from interdisciplinary or public perspectives to develop effective arguments in a variety of genres and modalities.
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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
Outcomes
Students will acquire experience composing in multiple modes and genres associated with digital writing.
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Catalog Description: Professional communication through the study of audience, purpose, and ethics. Rhetorical problem-solving principles applied to diverse professional writing tasks and situations. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors
Outcomes
Students will use rhetorical analysis and effective persuasion practices to produce user-centered documents in situated workplace genres for organizational ecologies.
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Catalog Description: Introduces historical conversations concerning rhetoric’s ethical responsibilities and explores complications that emerge as assumed historic connections between language and truth, justice, community, and personal character are deployed in various social, political, cultural, national, and transnational contexts. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors
Outcomes
Students will investigate historical and contemporary arguments about the relationship between rhetoric, language, and ethics.
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Catalog Description: Practical skills necessary for effective civic or advocacy writing. Examines the nature of public(s) and applies theoretical understandings to practical communication scenarios. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices
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Catalog Description: Sustained research and writing project in a student's field of study or area of interest. Analysis of the rhetorics and methodologies of research. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices
Outcomes
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WRT 308: Advanced Writing Studio: Style
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Catalog Description: Study and experiment with contemporary writing styles,designs,and editing conventions. Practice writing in multiple genres for different audiences, purposes, and effects. Explore rhetorical, aesthetic, social, and political dimensions of style. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate a growing command of linguistic resources (lexical, syntactic, cohesive, etc.) for rhetorical use.
Students will develop strategies of reading that include close attention to the writer’s stylistic choices and use these strategies to analyze their own work.
Students will acquire stylistic control and flexibility.
Students will determine how particular stylistic choices facilitate an effective response to specific rhetorical situations.
Students will recognize the importance of revision in the work that writers do, including their own.
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