The Craft of Writing

Catalog description

Explores writing as a varied set of deliberate, artful choices in regard to designing and stylizing diverse persuasive texts, all crafted for specific audiences-emphasizing a mindful focus upon language for students at all levels of preparation. The course invites students to experience, in texts of all kinds, the interplay of argumentative structure and style that impacts readers: both rhetorical awareness and stylistic agility. As a topics course, ENGL 274 will permit instructors to select various genres of writing and styles to challenge students' practice. Prereq ENGL 110, repeatable up to 6 credits.