COMPOSITION II: RESEARCHING THE PUBLIC EXPERIENCE
CRN: 25933
Instructor: Brianne Radke
Location: Pray-Harrold 414
Time: 11 AM - 12:15 PM,
Monday & Wedneday
Instructor: Brianne Radke
Location: Pray-Harrold 414
Time: 11 AM - 12:15 PM,
Monday & Wedneday
Course Description |
Focuses on academic writing and inquiry. Students use multiple modes of research to develop literacy used in academic and other public contexts. Through extended reading and writing, students engage in the process of writing researched essays that reflect conventions of standard written English and standard documentation styles.
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Course Overview
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Welcome to WRTG121! This semester you will gain grounded, practical experience with researched academic writing. The primary subject of the course is writing: how effective writers write in all variety of situations, in and beyond college, what successful writing looks like, and how specific practices, strategies, and concepts will aid you in becoming a more flexible, adaptive, and skillful communicator. WRTG121 is a small, studio-based course, which means you will spend considerable time writing, workshopping drafts, and discussing writing and related concepts with your peers and your instructor. The course progresses through a series of “projects.” We refer to them as projects because they involve a gradual build-up among many different components, much of which will be assembled into a portfolio at the end of the semester.
The four major projects for the course are Project One: Worknets and Invention Portfolio Project Two: Controversy Mapping and Invention Portfolio Project Three: Research Inquiry And Invention Portfolio Project Four: CSW Presentation Each project will accompany an Invention Portfolio--a collection of in-class writing and shorter pieces you prepared as you developed the project. The course portfolio will include a reflective essay that introduces its contents, recounts striking moments of learning and insight, and draws explicit connections between the work of the course and course outcomes. For more information about these projects, click on the links above or in the Schedule tab. |
Course Outcomes |
Rhetorical performance
You will have enacted rhetoric by consciously constructing persuasive texts. Research process You will have practiced different research methods, which includes analyzing and using sources and developing primary research. Style conventions You will have developed awareness of conventions of academic research processes, including documentation systems and their purposes. Multimodal design You will have composed using digital technologies, gaining awareness of the possibilities and constraints of electronic environments. Reflective interaction You will have shared your work with your instructor, peers, and/or the university community and accounted for the impact of such interaction on composition. |
Losh, Alexander, Cannon, and Cannon. Understanding Rhetoric (EMU Custom Edition). Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2014. ISBN 978-1-319-00314-2.
Lunsford, Andrea A. Writing in Action. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2014. ISBN 978-1-319-00314-2. These books are available as a bundle from the EMU bookstore. |