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Spring 2010 (click a title to learn more) [pdf flyer] |
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Advanced Argumentative Writing—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing
MW 12:45-2:05 (40354, sec M001)
Tricia Serviss
Angry mobs packing town hall meetings about health care demonstrate how argumentation is often (mis)understood in the public sphere. We are surrounded by depictions of “argument” as disagreement: insidious, angry opponents work to win. This course complicates simplistic notions of argument and engages argumentation as invention, inquiry, ethics, and negotiation of relationships. Using rhetorical concepts from various eras and cultures, we will enrich the idea of argument. We will apply and adapt these concepts to arguments across contexts, audiences, and media to generate powerful and persuasive argumentative writing of our own.
3 credits
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Research Noir—WRT 303: Writing & Research
TTH 2:00-3:20 (52258, sec M001)
Jeff Simmons
Join a community of fearless writers expanding their research writing skills in pursuit of mystery. Collaborate with the living and dead, as we uncover dusty documents in special collections, reveal the dark underbelly of data bases and electronic archives, and develop expertise as interviewers. The semester will culminate in a sustained research project.
3 credits—Genres & Practices Category
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Style—WRT 308: Style
TTH 12:30-1:50 (38607, sec M001)
Instructor TBA
WRT 308 provides a writing workshop focused on issues of style, so that you can work on advanced techniques for writing and editing your prose. We will study the components of style, analyze the stylistic choices writers make in response to specific rhetorical situations, and discover how applying different writing styles can support particular rhetorical purposes. We will also consider the social and political implications that surround judgments about style.
3 credits—Genres & Practices Category
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WRT 307: Professional Writing
WRT 307 is taught by multiple instructors at various times. The following is the 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—Genres & Practices Category
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Writing With Video—WRT 400: Special Topics
TTH 5:00-6:20 (52267, M001)
George Rhinehart
This course will explore the intersection of text and video. We will examine theories that define and challenge the relationships among and boundaries between text, image, sound, and video—from the rhetorical canons to new media theory. We will produce work that demonstrates that intersection in a number of ways, engaging in the creation of digital video products—from storyboarding to editing—as composing processes. Prior experience with digital video technologies is neither required nor expected, but creativity and willingness to think outside the conventional rectangles—page and screen—are.
3 credits—Histories & Theories Category
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Vision and Voice—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction
MW 2:15–3:35 (41848, sec M001)
John Colasacco
Creative Nonfiction (CNF): artistically ambitious writing based in reality. In this class students will read and write under the premise that CNF must deliver the diverse truths of reality while maintaining authentic vision and voice. We’ll operate in three phases: Invention (short creative nonfiction assignments, reading and discussing craft/technique), Reading and Research (a range of anthologized/unique creative nonfiction examples or manifestoes, writing/discussion bent toward our favorites), and Expansion (writing to grow, collaboration, reading/discussing peer work, in-class and student-prompted assignments).
3 credits—Genres & Practices Category
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Rhetorics of Resistance—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity
TTH 9:30-10:50 (39846, sec M001)
Laurie Gries
This course explores how writing, rhetoric, and identities emerge in various contact zones—social spaces where cultures meet, collide, and grapple in contexts of highly uneven power. Throughout the course, students will investigate rhetorics that oppress and rhetorics that resist. Focusing heavily on colonial contexts in the Americas, students will study how words, images, artifacts, and the body are employed to achieve personal, cultural, and political survival. Students will be encouraged to explore acts of resistance in their own communities, engage in historical research, and create multimedia presentations.
3 credits—Histories & Theories Category
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Rhetoric and/as Design—WRT426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology
MW 3:45–5:05 (41852, sec M001)
Collin Gifford Brooke
Much like rhetoric, the term “design” cuts across many disciplines and fields of endeavor. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the impact that design has on our everyday lives. This course will look carefully at the connections between rhetoric and design, paying special attention to more recent fields where the two intersect: web design, visual and multimedia rhetorics, and the idea of transmedia, to name but a few. We will consider what it means to research and write about design, and how rhetoric might help us to approach design critically, socially, and historically. Depending upon the experience and interests of the class, we may also spend some time working on digital projects.
3 credits—Histories & Theories Category
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Emerging Technologies in Prof. & Technical Communication—WRT427/627: Wrt in Design & Development Environments
W 5:15–6:35 & online (427: 52259, M001/627: 52260, M001)
Krista Kennedy
This hybrid course explores the impact of social media in technical communication and the workplace. Our locally-focused class project will incorporate wikis, tagging, GoogleDocs, Flickr, WriteMaps, and other applications. Participants will also use blogs, IM, LinkedIn, and Twitter during the collaborative process. Students will gain a broad vocabulary and understanding of how different workplace environments are coping with the challenges of producing technical communication in a period of complex factors, multiple audiences, geographical distances, and fast-changing tools. The class will meet both in the classroom & online.
3 credits—Genres & Practices Category
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Prior Semesters |
Fall 2009
Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Faith Plvan
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Writing, Publics, and Power—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Adam Banks
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Writing as Rebellion—WRT301: Civic Writing |
Janell Haynes
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Otherwords—WRT302: Digital Writing |
Collin Gifford Brooke
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Writers Beyond the Classroom—WRT331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum |
Jason Luther
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The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery?—WRT400: Special Topics |
Lois Agnew
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Studies in Narrative and Post Memoir—WRT422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction |
Donna Marsh-O'Connor
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e-Merging Identities—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity |
Ty O'Bryan
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2008-2009
Spring 2009 |
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Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Louise Wetherbee Phelps
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Writing, Publics, and Power—WRT 301:Advanced Writing Studio: Civic Writing |
Kelly Rawson
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WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors
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Wild and Whirling Words—WRT308: Style |
Jeremiah Thompson
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Versions of Reality—WRT422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction |
Gael Sweeney
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African American Rhetoric—WRT423: African American Rhetoric |
Gwendolyn Pough
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Queer Writing—WRT424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity
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Margaret Himley |
Digital Underground: Black Music & Technology—WRT426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology |
Adam Banks
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Fall 2008
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Arguing Publicly, Arguing Personally—WRT 255 :
Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Eileen E. Schell
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Writing the Election—WRT 301:
Civic Writing |
Lois Agnew |
Writing in Digital
Spaces—WRT 302: Digital Writing |
George Rhinehart |
The Rhetorics of Research—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Tricia Serviss |
WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors |
Writers Beyond the Classroom—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum |
Jason Luther |
Stranger than Fiction—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction |
Minnie Bruce Pratt |
Writing in the City—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy |
Steve Parks |
Rhetoric and Politics of the Black Sermon—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing |
Adam Banks |
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2007-2008
Spring 2008 |
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Argument and Community—WRT 255 :
Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Lois Agnew
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Civic Space in New City—WRT 301:
Civic Writing |
Christina Feikes
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Scholarship in Action—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Madeline Yonker
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WRT 307: Professional Writing
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Multiple Instructors |
It's All About How You Say It—WRT 308: Style |
Molly Voorheis
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Life, Love, and Liberation —WRT 423: African American Rhetoric |
Adam Banks
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Rap, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity
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Gwendolyn Pough
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Writing the Digital Divide—WRT 426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology |
Iswari Pandey
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Fall 2007 |
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Writing for Local and Global Audiences—WRT 255 :
Advanced Argumentative Writing |
Iswari Pandey
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Engagement Through Writing—WRT 301:
Civic Writing |
Adam Banks
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Writing the Digital Zeitgeist—WRT 302:
Digital Writing |
Ty O'Bryan
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Writing for Enthusiasts—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Henry Jankiewicz
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WRT 307: Professional Writing
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Multiple Instructors |
Writing Beyond the Classroom—WRT 331: Peer
Writing Consultant Practicum |
Jason Luther
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Stranger Than Fiction—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Writing in Schools and Communities—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy |
Jonna Gilfus
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Writing About The Media—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing |
Steve Thorley
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2006-2007
Spring 2007 |
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Writing For Our Local and Global Communities: The Word, the Image, and the Screen—WRT 301:
Civic Writing |
Eileen Schell
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Research
Writing in an Online World—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Kurt Stavenhagen
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WRT 307: Professional Writing
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Multiple Instructors |
Stylin'—WRT 308: Style |
Jeff Simmons
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Writers Beyond Classrooms—WRT 331: Peer
Writing Consultant Practicum |
Jason Luther
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Public Intellectuals, Cultural Critics, and “Pop Culture”
Analysts: Writing Self and Society—WRT 422: Studies
in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity |
Gwendolyn Pough
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Troubling Bodies: Race, Gender, and Sexuality—WRT 424: Studies
in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity |
Elisa Norris
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Writing for Web 2.0 —WRT 426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology |
Collin Gifford Brooke
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Fall 2006 |
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The
Active Writer—WRT 301:
Civic Writing |
Lois Agnew
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The
Digital and Its Links—WRT 302: Digital
Writing |
Derek Mueller
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Radical
Syracuse—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Nance Hahn
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WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors |
Peer
Consultant Practicum—WRT 331: Peer
Writing Consultant Practicum |
Jason Luther
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Where Do We Go From Here? Contemporary African American Rhetoric—WRT 424: Studies
in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity |
Adam Banks
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Authors, Writers, Heroes—WRT 428: Studies
in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy |
Rebecca Moore Howard
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Class Warfare: Campus & Community—WRT 440: Studies
in the Politics of Language and Writing |
Steve Parks
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2005-2006
Spring 2006 |
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From Spray Paint to Blogs: Activist
Writing —WRT 301: Civic Writing |
Steve Park |
Research Noir—WRT 303: Research
Writing |
Jeff Simmons
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WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors |
Constructing Style—WRT 308: Style |
Lois Agnew |
Advanced Editing Studio—WRT 340: Advanced
Editing Studio |
Chris Madden-Feikes
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Writing a Sense of Place: A Creative
Nonfiction Workshop —WRT 422: Studies
in Creative Nonfiction |
Eileen Schell
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Race, Rhetoric, and Technology —WRT 426: Studies
in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology |
Adam Banks
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Fall 2005 |
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Writing for Change—WRT 301: Civic Writing |
Molly Voorheis
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Jacking the Frame (Technological
Remediation and Re-culturation)—WRT 302: Digital Writing
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Madeline Yonker |
Argument in the 21st Century—WRT 303: Research Writing |
Rebecca Moore Howard |
WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors |
WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant
Practicum
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Vivian Rice
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WRT 427/627: Writing in Design
and Development Environments (Online) |
George Rhinehart |
Sermons, Standups, and the Spoken
Word: Rhetoric in the African American Oral Tradition —WRT 424:
Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity
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Adam Banks
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Black Women and Literacy—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy
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Gwendolyn Pough |
Language and the Public—WRT 440 : Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing
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Lois Agnew
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2004-2005
Spring 2005 |
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</writing>—WRT 302: Digital Writing |
George Rhinehart |
WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors |
Experimenting With Styles—WRT 308: Style |
Rebecca Moore Howard
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WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio |
Eileen Moeller
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The Art of Creating Memoir—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Non-Fiction |
Maureen Puetzer
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Paul Robeson, the Black Left, and
the Movement Between the Movements—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity) |
Adam Banks
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WRT 430: Advanced Writing Consultation |
Vivian Rice
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Fall 2004 |
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Environmental Activism—WRT 301: Civic Writing |
David Nentwick
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Language, Culture, and Information —WRT 303: Research and Writing |
Tennyson O'Donnell
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WRT 307: Professional Writing |
Multiple Instructors
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Peer Writing Consultant Practicum—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum |
Vivian Rice
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Memoir and Public Voice —WRT 422: Studies in Creative Non-Fiction |
Amanda Brown
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Self-Presentation/Media Representation —WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity |
Burgess
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Writing, Schools, and Power —WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy |
Jonna Gilfus
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modified: October 28, 2009
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