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ENGLISH 365 - Special Topic in Writing Studies: Rhetoric, Public and Community
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ENGLISH 365
Special Topic in Writing Studies: Rhetoric, Public and Community
Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for ENGLISH 365.
Description
Considers issues related to writing for the public sphere, both global and local. This course examines modern efforts to define the public sphere in terms of a space for social communication and action, but also as a quasi-political structure. It also investigates, in theory and practice, the roles of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism in maintaining communities and publics, including counterpublics.
Availability 2012
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Roger Nicholson
Points
ENGLISH 365: 15.0 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in Writing Studies