Introduction to important past and present issues in the field of writing and rhetoric. Provides a theoretical and historical foundation for understanding current issues, changes, and challenges for the discipline. Satisfies the university general education requirement for a writing intensive course in general education or the major, not both. Prerequisite for writing intensive: completion of the university writing foundation requirement.
Students in WRT 340 will:
- Analyze contemporary issues within the larger field of composition-rhetoric and its various subfields (pedagogy, professional writing, and digital media)
- Analyze rhetorical situations (writer, text, context, purpose, audience) and contexts for research and writing within the field and its subfields (pedagogy, professional writing, and digital media);
- Study and apply research methods within the field and its subfields (qualitative and quantitative);
- Identify controversies within the field and its subfields, research those controversies, and locate their own disciplinary position relative to those controversies.
- Effective Communication
- Critical Thinking