Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Writing Program
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-164390 WRTG 262-2 What Do You Mean I Can't Do That? Learning to Write Like an "Insider" in Your Discipline(s) Spring 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 450 PM 605 PM Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/17/2024 05/11/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 274W-3, WRTG 262-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Restrictions: Pre-requisite: Successful Completion of one of the following with a C or better: WRTG 104 WRTG 105 WRTG 105B WRTG 105E FWS 121
Description: Drawing on the concepts of discourse community and rhetorical genre analysis (e.g., Bazerman, Berkenhotter & Huckin, Swales), this course investigates ways of understanding the choices writers make when communicating about the natural, social, or applied sciences, with the goal of better understanding how to read and write as an insider in your chosen discipline. You will develop a technical vocabulary and set of skills that allow you to describe recurring patterns and writer choices within those patterns. Using these tools, and talking to experts in your chosen discipline(s), you will investigate disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, how writers convey meaning in different situations, and why they make the writing choices they do. Through a final research project of your choice, you will practice using what you have learned to communicate the results of your own research. This course is especially suitable for dual-major students, or those heading to graduate or health professions schools.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement

Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-144694 WRTG 262-2 What Do You Mean I Can't Do That? Learning to Write Like an "Insider" in Your Discipline(s) Spring 2023 4.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 450 PM 605 PM Rush Rhees Library Room G108 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
15
Co-Located: BIOL 274W-3, WRTG 262-2 (P)
Instructors: Katherine Schaefer
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Drawing on the concepts of discourse community and rhetorical genre analysis (e.g., Bazerman, Berkenhotter & Huckin, Swales), this course investigates ways of understanding the choices writers make when communicating about the natural, social, or applied sciences, with the goal of better understanding how to read and write as an insider in your chosen discipline. You will develop a technical vocabulary and set of skills that allow you to describe recurring patterns and writer choices within those patterns. Using these tools, and talking to experts in your chosen discipline(s), you will investigate disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, how writers convey meaning in different situations, and why they make the writing choices they do. Through a final research project of your choice, you will practice using what you have learned to communicate the results of your own research. This course is especially suitable for dual-major students, or those heading to graduate or health professions schools.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement

Offered: Fall Spring Summer