WRTG 214: Arguing Across Contexts

WRTG 214 is a new spin on the 200 level writing course. While the other 200 level writing courses are designed for specific contexts, such as writing for the sciences, WRTG 214 was created to practice argumentative writing across a variety of contexts and genres.

To teach a WRTG 214 course, an instructor must first propose the course. Each 214 course is centered around a specific topic or theme which is then used as a lens to investigate rhetorical strategies and argumentative writing across contexts and genres.

Course Catalog Description: Instruction and practice in written research-supported arguments for a variety of audiences, with an emphasis on rhetorical strategies across a variety of public and academic contexts.

Course Specific Outcomes

– Reading: Students will be able to analyze and interpret arguments based on their rhetoric, method, context, design, and relationship to other texts.
– Writing: Students will be able to demonstrate consistent use of a broad range of conventions specific to a discipline or writing task across a variety of public and academic contexts.
– Thinking: Students will be able to question the quality, consequences, and assumptions among competing ideas in an argument in order to synthesize and reformulate a position.
– Community Mindedness: Students will develop knowledge, skills, and values that contribute to their roles within their communities and be able to reflect on their community identity and contributions.
– Instructor Specific Outcome: Each instructor should designate an outcome specific to their own course.

Course Theme

Each WRTG 214 course is unique to the instructor and has a specific theme. Below are some of the past 214 courses.
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