In Writing Seminar II: Multimedia Communication, students produce collaborative and individual projects to develop critical reading, writing, thinking and researching skills. Through analyses of professional communication, students consider the rhetorical framework and strategies for effective, ethical communication. Student projects include written, oral and visual presentations, with particular emphasis on project management and process as well as the final products of their work. In the Hallmarks Program, this course helps students develop their Collaboration competency, and it also serves as a Touchstone course in which each student's Hallmarks Folio is reviewed and assessed at its sophomore-level stage of development.
In the Honors-specific section of Writing Seminar II, Honors students are presented the opportunity to develop a rigorous, strategic intervention into a local issue of their choosing. Students will not only read about rhetoric as a form of engagement; students will also enact rhetoric as engagement. Further, students will document their interventions and present them to the class. Briefly, this Honors section makes engagement the central organizing principle of the course, and each course module and major project will act as a step toward students’ real-world application of the writing and communication strategies discussed throughout. Moreover, this Honors section incorporates readings in classical rhetoric to emphasize enduring rhetorical patterns that both constrain and offer opportunity to actors.
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Everybody Writes
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They Say I Say
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Workplace Writing: A Handbook for Common Workplace Genres and Professional Writing
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Effective Communication at Work
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