The written word is the basic currency of both the academic and industrial economies. Not only must professionals write reports and proposals for communities of their peers, but they must also communicate often with non-specialist audiences. This course equips students with classical and contemporary rhetorical principles in order to help them appreciate the purpose, audience, and constraints of the rhetorical situation. It then provides them with various contexts for practicing descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive elements of academic, professional, and technical writing, all of which types they may expect to encounter during the course of their careers as students and professionals. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): RCM 200 or 60 credit units of university level courses. Note:Students cannot receive credit for RCM 408 and RCM 808; those courses have overlapping content.
The written word is the basic currency of both the academic and industrial economies. Not only must professionals write reports and proposals for communities of their peers, but they must also communicate often with non-specialist audiences. This course equips students with classical and contemporary rhetorical principles in order to help them appreciate the purpose, audience, and constraints of the rhetorical situation. It then provides them with various contexts for practicing descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive elements of academic, professional, and technical writing, all of which types they may expect to encounter during the course of their careers as students and professionals. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): RCM 200 or 60 credit units of university level courses. Note:Students cannot receive credit for RCM 408 and RCM 808; those courses have overlapping content.
