Students will have the opportunity, as well, to write about their own experiences with travel and to explore the role that travel will have in their lives. Several narrative and expository papers will be assigned throughout the quarter, as well as a longer, more focused, and developed research paper. Revision will be encouraged and required. Writing 1, Section 8. Students learn how to produce rewrites, interviews, news stories, cover public events, and news features.
Students also keep a weekly news journal.
Writing 1 as a prerequisite is strongly recommended. Writing 64 is required for entrance into the Journalism Minor. Greek Graffito A combination of informal lectures and discussion, Writing 101 provides an introduction to the history of the origins of Western rhetoric in Greece and to the central issues of rhetoric as they are articulated in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Plato's Phaedrus and as they reappear in contemporary discussions of communication, culture, advocacy, democracy, advertising, ethics, law, politics, religion, science, education - and so on. Students need have no special background in history, politics, or philosophy, but they do need to be willing to grapple with both the theory of rhetoric and the nuts and bolts of rhetorical practice. Satisfies requirements for the Communication and Rhetoric Minor and satisfies the W requirement.