Oxford UP, 1990. The class will regard television as a textual and rhetorical issue that relates to the ways we speak and think. The class will also investigate the ways that television culture has influenced the ways in which we think. David Mair, Professor of English. This course uses theory and research to focus on instruction in writing.
Students explore versions of the writing process and construct units of material for use in class.
They try to define what the elements of various kinds of writing are and use these to examine how such descriptions can be used to make instruction more efficient. Students also analyze how they write and compare this with what other writers say both in professional and non-professional contexts. David Mair, Professor of English. An overview of contemporary research and theory in the study of written composition, with emphasis on rhetorical theory, the interrelationship of writing and reading, and the politics of defining literacy. The complexity of the overview provided by this course compelled graduate students to develop a possible topography of the field.