HU6062

This course is designed to help students from all majors to examine and analyze their own writing styles and to adapt those styles to suit a variety of audiences, particularly audiences within their own disciplines. Whether preparing for degrees in engineering, emergency management, environmental science, or business, students will become familiar with ways to write effectively and persuasively for their own majors and beyond. Through readings, research, writing, discussions, and presentations, students will explore the conventions and purposes of their own discourse communities and will become familiar with the rhetorical strategies needed for persuasive writing within these communities. This course satisfies the additional writing course requirement for the Writing Proficiency Examination (WPE) support. (Minimum C- grade required to receive course credit). Does not fulfill HU Group II.