Writing in Context

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How do we understand the ways in which people use written language to carry out work in professional, academic, social and/or personal contexts? How does our understanding of the ways writing is produced for an audience shift between and among these different contexts? More importantly, how do writers adapt their writing practices in order to facilitate audience understanding as well as cultivate an audience's capacity for action? Familiarize students with rhetorical practices that position them to read, assess and respond to the rhetorical demands of a wide range of writing contexts. Strengthens students' existing rhetorical skill sets and problem-setting capacities for producing and circulating work (widely defined across material, print and digital media) that responds to a range of problems in an applied manner. Assesses the rhetorical demands of writing contexts and in developing and producing tailored, audience-specific texts that forward work in complex, interdisciplinary environments.