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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)
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)
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.
Students will develop rhetorical awareness of digital modes and genres, through relevant readings, analysis, and production.
Students will gain familiarity and experience with a range of software platforms for the production of digital materials.
Students will approach digital writing procedurally as well as expressively and rhetorically.
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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.
Students will produce work that successfully incorporates accessible media objects into print and digital texts.
Students will produce a sustained, multiple-product group project that incorporates varied workplace genres (e.g., emails, proposals, status updates, reports, etc.) and technologies.
Students will produce instructional documents that incorporate audience assessment, a basic usability assessment and report, and multi-level document principles.
Students will learn to recognize and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of professional writing, including consideration of such issues as professional codes and inclusive language.
Students will compose with an awareness of diverse global and transnational cultures.
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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.
Students will consider how perceptions of rhetoric’s ethical function shape and respond to specific cultural circumstances.
Students will explore how different contexts and technology pose ethical challenges for speakers, writers, and audiences.
Students will analyze strategies speakers and writers use to build credibility with their audiences.
Students will demonstrate an ability to take ethical considerations into account in producing arguments.
Syllabi and Assignments
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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
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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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WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum
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
Students will explore a range of Writing Center theory and pedagogy in order to understand how current practices have evolved and how Writing Centers are positioned within the university community.
Students will engage in observations, workshops, practice sessions, and other activities in order to develop effective consulting strategies and build confidence in their tutoring skills.
Students will draw connections between peer tutoring theory and practical application in tutoring sessions in various writing assignments in order to illustrate how their understanding of best practices evolves throughout the course.
Students will contribute to the ongoing academic conversation on peer tutoring issues.
Students will complete weekly reflective journals (covering readings and tutoring sessions, among other topics), discussion leading, practice sessions and observation analyses, a major research project, and writing WLN-style tutor columns.
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Catalog Description: Students will produce INTERTEXT, an anthology of student writing in the Writing Program. This extensive editorial project will include: processing manuscripts, production of the anthology, marketing, and public relations tasks. Permission of instructor. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices
Outcomes
Students will learn the steps involved in producing a high-quality print-based publication.
Students will analyze some of the ways in which print-based publishing intersects with digital
publishing.
Students will work effectively and collaboratively as a team member.
Students will gain insight from professionals in scholarly and academic publishing.
Students will acquire strategies for editing material and communicating with authors.
Students will develop basic design skills using programs such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and, to a lesser extent, Dreamweaver.
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Catalog Description: WRT 400 is an advanced undergraduate writing seminar on topics in composition or cultural rhetoric. 3 credits :: Repeatable
Examples of prior 400s:
Rhetorical Listening and Composition (Patrick Berry, Fall 2013)
Visual Rhetoric (Collin Brooke, Spring 2012)
Writing with Video (Partrick Berry, Fall 2011)
Global Rhetorics (Iswari Pandey, Spring 2011)
Information Design (Krista Kennedy, Fall 2010; regularized as WRT 437)
Writing with Video (George Rhinehart, Spring 2010)
The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery? (Lois Agnew, Fall 2009; regularized as WRT 413)