WRTG 2090: Document Design
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We live in an era in which documents exceed the form and the parameters of the printed page. They can be printed or electronic, image or sound - in short, they are now governed by new concepts and aesthetics. Document Design will study theories from traditional visual art (balance, positive and negative space, perspective); rhetoric (audience, purpose, context); graphic design (color, typography, layout), and learning theory (the construction of knowledge) to improve our use of technology. The successful students should leave the class with a battery of tools that they might apply to whichever design programs they ultimately encounter. The course will begin with the printed page and move to beginning web design. Throughout the course, students will experiment with the ways in which the visual and the verbal combine to make meaning by analyzing and creating a variety of persuasive documents.

WRTG 2090: Interdisciplinary Research and Writing
Section: 001
Instructor: Dr. Jay Ellis
This workshop will teach you how to write to develop a research project you care about, how to find the best source for a given point in your writing, and how that source might be presented (and cited) differently for various situations. We will explore various standards for "evidence" in writing, and we will work with more than one definition of "interdisciplinary" scholarship. When do you quote and when should you paraphrase? What do you do with a source quoted by another source? How can the Internet help you work smarter, but without the pitfalls of unintentional plagiarism, or of citing something that turns out to be a questionable source? By the end of Interdisciplinary Research and Writing, you will also have refined your skills in computer composition, revision, online research, and incorporation of evidence into your writing - so that you can accomplish more than a mere book report, or an essay of your own guesses with "some quotes stuck in." No previous knowledge of computer composition and research techniques is required, as these will be our focus.

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WRTG 2090: Writer's Workshop: Pedagogy and Practice of the Writing Center
Section: 001
Instructor: Eric Klinger
It’s often said that to truly understand something one must be able to teach it.  With this philosophy in mind, students in this course will learn to become more proficient writers by engaging in hands-on tutoring with peers and studying collegiate writing center practice.  Students will read articles from a broad theoretical and disciplinary pallet and participate in peer tutoring sessions about their own papers to better understand how one teaches and learns about writing. Class topics will include theories of learning, composition and rhetoric, document design, and grammar and style.  Students will write several response papers, occasionally lead class discussions and write a term paper.

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