Writing for International Affairs

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students write at an expert level in the field of International Relations and is required for all M.A. in IR students. This course enhances and refines students’ critical writing and reading skills for the study, and practice, of International Relations. Students will extend their abilities to write clearly, coherently, and fluently by incorporating analysis into their writing. Vocabulary, outlining, summary/synthesis, and critiquing skills will be reinforced. Students will apply college standards of proper rhetoric by choosing subjects and modes appropriate for the intended audience and purpose. Each student will choose a topic for a major research paper that will require careful analysis of readings and implementation of documentation techniques. Students will demonstrate basic principles of unity, coherence and support in essay writing with applied principles of revision through prewriting, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.