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in Writing-Heroism: Troy to Baghdad
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, short essays
of various types, and three 5-7 page critical essays. While
texts produced by the students will provide the focus of this
course, outside material on which we draw as starting points
for discussion and writing includes photographs, film, short
essays, literature, and such non-fiction works as Lt. Col. Dave
Grossman's On Killing. Much of this material is disturbing,
and will invite us to revise our understanding of the nature
and costs of female and male heroism across cultures. 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.
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