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Associated Term: Fall 2015
Levels: Undergraduate Main Campus Campus Lecture (LECT) Schedule Type Hybrid: 50-85% Online Instructional Method Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, you, the student, will be able to: • Understand a theory of discourse communities; • Engage as a community of writers who dialogue across texts, argue, and build on each other’s work; • Draw on existing knowledge bases to create “new” or “transformed” knowledge; • Develop a knowledge of genres as they are defined and within discourse communities; • Address the specific, immediate rhetorical situations of individual communicative acts; • Develop procedural knowledge of the writing task in its various phases; and, • Engage in reflection about your own learning. You, the student, will also have the opportunity to strengthen skill sets in the following areas: • Think, read, and write critically; • Formulate research questions and perform primary and secondary research to answer those questions; • Become familiar with the contents of the UTEP Library, in a variety of forms and areas of professional study (e.g. the arts, humanities, sciences, nursing, social sciences, business, engineering, and education); • Analyze and synthesize material from outside sources; • Develop a sensitivity to the significance of data and how it can be rhetorically applied to various genres; and, • As part of a research process, apply research to various genres; receive instruction in the logic and form of documentation within a discipline (APA manual of style); learn writing strategies for integrating source material into your own prose (quoted, paraphrased, and summarized material); write analytical and argumentative papers appropriate to genres and larger discourse communities. Required Materials: Rhetoric and Writing Studies in English: Research and Critical Writing Course. 2014. Pearson Custom Library, English Mercury Reader. ISBN: 10:1-269-25983-0 ISBN: 13: 978-1-269-25983-5 The Student Guide to Undergraduate Rhetoric and Writing Studies, 17th ed. REVISED. 2014. Required Technical Requirements: View Catalog Entry
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