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Course description
'''Writing and Rhetoric II- Composing in the Digital Age: New Texts, New Literacies ''' While it's primary aim is centered on writing and persuasion, this course contextualizes that aim within the technological milieu of the 21st century. Accordingly, writing assignments are situated in online spaces in order to maximize rhetorical constituents of purpose and audience. Furthermore, while this course seeks to improve writing skills, there's also a heavy emphasis on writing studies, and the theoretical advancements of the second half of the twentieth-century which characterize the discipline. To this end, the course emphasizes four specific content areas: 1)texts as dynamic rhetorical constructs, created and given meaning by multiple authors and readers who bring multiple subjectivities or viewpoints to the act of interpretation and composition; 2)the rhetoric of new media, visual arguments-their analysis and composition; 3)the existence of multiple "literacies" rather than a single conception of literacy, and the various social, economic, and technological forces that influence those literacies; 4)discourse communities and the effect of social forces on the interpretation and composition of language/texts. Investigation of these core concepts will inform student writing and class content, providing opportunities to practice traditional academic writing skills within a writing-studies specific context.

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