3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Written CommunicationInformation LiteracyUpper Division
Designed for students who wish additional training in composition beyond the basic requirements. Extensive practice in the writing of mature expository, critical, and argumentative prose. (The course satisfies the Indiana certification requirement of three hours of advanced composition.)
Learning Outcomes1Produce over 8,000 words of polished, rhetorically effective writing, fit for the academy, work, and civic life.
2Use strategies of close reading and sound research methods for depth of understanding, expansion of knowledge, and honing critical acumen.
3Apply rhetorical principles and techniques to a variety of writing tasks.
4Read primary texts on rhetorical history and theory in order to understand them and use them.
5Expand your knowledge of how persuasion permeates all aspects of life - verbal, visual, and material and increased your ability to discern better and worse forms of influence and argument.
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