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  WRTG 311
  In this course you’ll learn to write for both academic and mass audiences about the functions, meanings, values, and qualities of art and the humanities.
  
  Learning Outcomes (or what you will be able to do after taking this class):
  

  • Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including creating and/or finding ideas, evidence, and data to write about; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing or presenting a message so that it is successfully understood by a specified audience.
  • Use various methods of invention, organization, and style to adapt written and oral forms of communication to a specific rhetorical situation.
  • Utilize the library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess its reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it into their own writing by following an appropriate style of documentation.
  • Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
  • Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
  • Write and speak effectively about the arts to academic and general audiences and for a variety of purposes.
  • Critically read and evaluate different artistic mediums as well as scholarship in the humanities.

  
  Course Coordinator: Tyler Gardner
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  WRTG 312
  You will produce expository and persuasive writing focusing on practical reasons for evaluating audiences, generating and structuring an argument, and making stylistic decisions.
  
  Learning Outcomes (or what you will be able to do after taking this class):
  

  • Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including creating and/or finding ideas, evidence, and data to write about; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing or presenting a message so that it is successfully understood by a specified audience.
  • Use various methods of invention, organization, and style to adapt written and oral forms of communication to a specific rhetorical situation.
  • Utilize the library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess its reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it into their own writing by following an appropriate style of documentation.
  • Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
  • Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
  • Write coherent and unified texts, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, supporting details, transitions, and strong conclusions.
  • Create an appropriate ethos in both writing and speaking.
  • Analyze the parts of an argument; evaluate them in terms of the intended audience; and generate a reasonable argument for a specific audience. Anticipate and effectively respond to audience objections and counterarguments.

  
  Course Coordinator: David Stock
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  WRTG 313
  Writing 313 is an advanced course in composition with the purpose of teaching research, writing, and oral communication skills needed for careers in education and teaching.
  
  Learning Outcomes (or what you will be able to do after taking this class):
  

  • Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including creating or finding ideas, evidence, and data; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing and presenting a successful message for a specific rhetorical situation.
  • Write coherent and unified texts with a correct, clear, and graceful prose style, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, support, smooth transitions, and strong conclusions.
  • Utilize library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it to your writing using APA documentation.
  • Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
  • Write a well-argued, persuasive document on a focused, significant issue in K-12 instructional practices including appropriate counter-arguments and evidence.
  • Understand how strong written and oral communication skills will help educators provide vital leadership within the schools they serve and their communities at large.
    

  
  Course Coordinator: Jon Ostenson
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  WRTG 315
  You will learn to produce writing characteristic of disciplines that inquire into human behavior and institutions, including proposals, library paper, empirical research, reviews, and correspondence.
  
  Learning Outcomes (or what you will be able to do after taking this class):
  

  • Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including: creating and/or finding ideas about which to write; collecting evidence and data; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing or presenting a message so that it is successfully understood by a specified audience.
  • Write coherent and unified texts, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, supporting details, transitions, and strong conclusions.
  • Use various methods of invention, organization, and style to adapt written and oral forms of communication to specific rhetorical situations.
  • Utilize the library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess its reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it into their own writing by following an appropriate style of documentation.
  • Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
  • Successfully complete the library tour, tutorial, and tests (if not completed as part of the first-year writing requirement). Successfully complete a library mini-course taught for their major area and demonstrate the ability to use the library effectively.
  • Demonstrate the ability to create, number, and label tables and figures.
  • Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
    

  
  Course Coordinator: Jill Larsen
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  WRTG 316
  You will learn effective processes of written, oral, and visual technical communication, including collaborative processes. Writing for academic and professional audiences.
  
  Learning Outcomes (or what you will be able to do after taking this class):
  

  • Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including: creating and/or finding ideas about which to write; collecting evidence and data; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing or presenting a message so that it is successfully understood by a specified audience.
  • Write coherent and unified texts, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, supporting details, transitions, and strong conclusions.
  • Use various methods of invention, organization, and style to adapt written and oral forms of communication to a specific rhetorical situation.
  • Utilize the library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess its reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it into their own writing by following an appropriate style of documentation.
  • Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
  • Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
  • Analyze rhetorical aspects of audience, purpose, and context to communicate technical information effectively in written, oral, and visual media.
  • Recognize structures or genres typically used in science and engineering, understand the processes that produce them, and the organizational and stylistic conventions characteristic of them, and apply this knowledge to their own writing tasks.
    

  
  Course Coordinator: Sam Dunn