This course offers a rhetorical introduction to closed-form academic writing.
The course focuses on the rhetorical
considerations that distinguish different kinds of academic writing, explores
its formal and generic features, and outlines ways of making it more
persuasive.
Students will learn to examine the rhetorical choices that underlie academic writing, and practice composing persuasive arguments. Students will become familiar with the range of formal and generic features of academic writing, from document design to incorporating sources critically and effectively. Students will practice planning, composing, revising and editing their own work and that of their classmates.
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