First-Year
Writing and Rhetoric
Students will create texts that range in nature
from personal and expressionistic to argumentative. These texts
will take the form of ungraded, in-class "freewriting" on a
variety of topics, a 2-3 page "visual literacy" essay that describes
a photo of your choice and then "decodes" the photo's message,
and a 5-7 page "critical inquiry/research paper." This longer
essay will be based on Stephen Spielberg's film Minority Report,
film criticism in response to it, and other types of writing
about the film (e.g., an essay on the film as an indirect critique
of the Bush Doctrine). Alternatively, you can write on a film
or book, and related material, of your own choosing. You will
provide an annotated bibliography for this critical essay, and
also give an oral presentation on it. The overall, rhetorical
goal of the course is to help students to develop a firmer control
(than they might already have) over different types of writing,
and consequently to enjoy writing more than ever before. In
the process students also learn to conduct college-level research.
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First-Year Writing and Rhetoric Students will create texts that range in nature from personal and expressionistic to argumentative. These texts will take the form of ungraded, in-class "freewriting" on a variety of topics, a 2-3 page "visual literacy" essay that describes a photo of your choice and then "decodes" the photo's message, and a 5-7 page "critical inquiry/research paper." This longer essay will be based on Stephen Spielberg's film Minority Report, film criticism in response to it, and other types of writing about the film (e.g., an essay on the film as an indirect critique of the Bush Doctrine). Alternatively, you can write on a film or book, and related material, of your own choosing. You will provide an annotated bibliography for this critical essay, and also give an oral presentation on it. The overall, rhetorical goal of the course is to help students to develop a firmer control (than they might already have) over different types of writing, and consequently to enjoy writing more than ever before. In the process students also learn to conduct college-level research.
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