Writing Across the Disciplines

Catalog description

This course is designed to address the needs of students beginning to write or already writing within their major and to help them become more sophisticated readers and writers in their discipline. In addition, it will help them be more adept in any new situation that involves writing. Students will develop their own theory of writing, including the concepts of purpose, audience, context, genre, rhetorical situation, and discourse community, among others. Students will begin to understand the role of writing in a larger academic and professional discourse community as they explore how practitioners in their field use a variety of genres.