Writing With Data    3 s.h

Catalog description

This graduate-level class provides an introduction to writing effectively with data in different types of professional and academic documents. Students examine various forms of qualitative and quantitative data, focusing on how to use data rhetorically to advance research-based arguments for lay and specialized audiences. Students collect, write about, and cite qualitative and quantitative data, including methods such as interviews, surveys, focus groups, online community analysis, and quasi and true experiments. Students also learn how professional and academic writers incorporate data-driven arguments into different written genres and represent those arguments using data-visualization tools. No knowledge of statistics is required. Prereq.: Graduate Standing.