Open to masters students in rhetoric and technical communication. Credit varies according to the nature of the reading. May be repeated for a total of 9 credits. Students must receive approval from their supervising instructor before registering. Directed reading in a focused area under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty Open to doctoral students in rhetoric and technical communication.
Credit varies according to the nature of the reading.
May be repeated for a total of 9 credits. Students must receive approval from their supervising instructor before registering. Introduction to the linguistic analysis of both spoken conversation and written text. This course provides a forum for the close study of the way that meaning is played out in extended verbal interactions and of the tools we use for this analysis. Topics may include discourse communities,power,conversation in oral and textual forms, ethics and other problems in data collection, coding for discourse features, and ethnographic methods of discourse collection and analysis.