ENGL 314 Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
Overview of various foundational rhetorical theories and their historical applications. Study and practice of advanced expository writing and research writing and strategies.
English education majors please note: ENGL 314 and ENGL 414 do not need to be taken sequentially.
Prerequisite
ENGL 102 or permission of instructor
Offered
Spring, odd years
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify and analyze the rhetorical situation of a single text
- Rhetorically analyze both textual and multimodal media
- Identify the key actors, events, and exigencies of various social movements
- Employ various expository modes to describe the rhetorical situation and context surrounding a social movement and its rhetoric
- Design a multimodal object for public use
- Integrate and document both primary and secondary sources into a multimodal project using an accepted citation style (APA or MLA)