At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Refine the writing and research skills established in ENGL 1613
- Demonstrate audience awareness when making rhetorical choices, including choices related to style, tone, and diction
- Demonstrate an awareness of rhetorical appeals in students' own texts
- Analyze the values and writing conventions of their discipline
- Create multiple pieces of formal writing which contribute to a final academic research text
- Create and share a multimodal presentation
1. Rhetoric: Style, strategies, devices, tools, and appeals; relationship to audience
2. Research: Credibility, integration, citation and documentation, research as inquiry, types of sources, role of research librarian
3. Composition: Focus, coherence, development, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions
4. Reading: Engagement with texts: annotation, outlining, vocabulary; critical analysis of texts including non-fiction, academic writing
5. Criticality: Intellectual empathy, originality in thought, context of social and cultural contexts, diverse viewpoints
6. Multimodality: Integration of visual, textual, and oral elements; methods of engaging audience; rhetorical awareness