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Mar 28, 2024
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ENG 301 - Rhetoric for Professional Writers Description: Study and practice in rhetorically effective workplace writing. Includes rhetorical theory, ethics, organizational contexts, and the study and practice of professional writing genres.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Students will identify and apply the rhetorical conventions of a variety of professional genres, including professional/business letters, memos, proposals, and emails.
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Individual writing assignments representing a variety of professional genres.
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Students will be able to identify a variety of perspectives related to workplace writing. These perspectives include rhetorical, social, ethical, technological, and professional aspects of texts, documents, and other workplace writing contexts.
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Quizzes and/or exams.
Writing assignments that ask students to consider extra-textual (i.e., external to the text or document) aspects of workplace writing.
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Students will develop skills to deploy rhetoric in professional contexts that involve persuasion and knowledge-making. They practice applying these skills to “real world” problems.
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Writing projects that involve rhetorical argument or arguing towards building organizational knowledge or determining appropriate courses of action in the workplace (fore example, technical reports, assessments or proposals).
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Students will develop and demonstrate research strategies appropriate to workplace writing.
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Major research-supported writing projects that provide opportunities to study and assess the complexities of writing within organizations.
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Students will demonstrate presentation skills appropriate to workplace contexts.
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One writing assignment involving visual rhetoric and professional presentations to be delivered orally to the class, either in person or online.
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Students will define and analyze examples of professional writing according to the theoretical foundations of the discipline.
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Major and minor writing assignments and/or in-class activities.
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Students will demonstrate their understanding of the theoretical foundations of rhetoric and professional writing.
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Quizzes, exams, writing projects.
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Students will demonstrate their ability to adjust style and voice for rhetorical effectiveness in professional writing genres.
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Major writing assignments covering a variety of genres, audiences, and contexts.
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