Critical Writing Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing Studies

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This writing seminar focuses on a scholarly inquiry in the field of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, the study of how we use various tools--words, images, gestures, sounds, genres--to communicate with and persuade others. This seminar will introduce students to scholarly conversations on a specific topic in this discipline as a basis for understanding discipline- and profession-based writing. This includes types of reasoning, evidence, citation practices, and other means of creating, testing, and sharing knowledge with diverse audiences. Throughout, students are introduced to new writing situations as a means of sharpening their skills and learning how to be adaptive, effective writers.