Environmental Writing & Rhetoric

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In this advanced writing course, students apply threshold concepts of writing and rhetoric to examine writing and rhetoric about the environment. Students are invited to engage in academic writing and research as emerging scholars, exploring how concepts like “genre” and “discourse community” manifest in the writing they encounter within public and professional discussions about the environment. The course offers practice in effective library research, techniques of documentation (e.g. MLA, APA), and the sharing of research findings through multiple means (e.g. research paper, video, speech, social media).