Description
This course provides an intriduction to the theories and issues that inform the discipline commonly known as rhetoric and compostion, including writing-across-the-curriculum and professional communication. The course is intended to be a survey of movements and topics important to the discipline of Composition. Many-but not all- of these relate to writing instruction. Course topics include history of rhetoric and composition; writers, writing and revision; reading; genre theory; writing-across- the -curriculum; matters of identity and language. This course is appropiate for anyone who expects to teah writing and/or who is interested in the study of writing.