Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Sydney/WRIT2002 Advanced Writing and Research (1)/Course description

This course introduces students to advanced rhetorical theory, research and textual analysis. They examine the rhetorical strategies by authors/creators of successful and influential texts (including poems, songs, films, speeches, artworks and religious doctrine) and the contexts in which they were produced and are encouraged to think critically about various text types and modes of delivery. Students are challenged to apply what they learn from these analyses to debate current issues in individual and collaborative activities. The course also cultivates intensive and effective research and reporting practices, through which students develop their own discipline-based inquiry questions to effectively discover, produce, and deliver their arguments. They conduct independent research to seek connections between arguments and contexts, and to develop their own effective oral, visual and written arguments.

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