This course has four major projects: Project 1: Tailoring a Document for a Specific Audience You will work individually to develop a document for a specific audience, purpose, and rhetorical context. For this project, you may be asked to: This project emphasizes: Along with your documents, you’ll submit a project completion memo that reflects on ...
Communication Studies is a field of academic study that explores human communication processes. Communication theorists use a variety of research methods and theories to explore how communication is produced and interpreted by individuals (intrapersonal competencies) and by co-authors, teams, and institutions and organizations (interpersonal competencies). Common research themes are Semiotics: How do people use verbal, ...
Composition Studies is an academic discipline chiefly concerned with the study of composing a subdiscipline of Writing Studies. Scholars and researchers in Composition Studies (aka Compositionists) focus on investigating composing processes (also known as creative processes). Related: Composing, Writing, Drafting; The Writing Process In their introduction to Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, Perspectives, Kelly Ritter ...
Writing Studies, an interdisciplinary field, is chiefly composed of four major subdisciplines: Synonymous Terms Writing Studies may also be known as Related Concepts: Discourse Community, Community of Practice Literacy today is in the midst of a tectonic change. Even inside of school, never before have writing and composing generated such diversity in definition. (Yancey 2004, p. ...
Rhetoric & Technology, a subdiscipline of Rhetoric, is a field of study concerned with the impact of technologies on communication processes. The internet and new writing technologies are revolutionizing people’s relationship to information–both in its production, use, and dissemination. Fake news, information silos, and the outright rejection of logic based on emotion and tribalism–these sorts ...
Cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal competencies, according to learning scientists, From this perspective, a writer’s cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies determine how well a writer thinks and communicates with others. Synonyms: 21st century literacy; Workforce Competency; Deeper Learning Literacy, as defined by the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) community is an amalgam of many competencies, ...
Below is a summary of research on Mindset and Intrapersonal Competencies where Mindset concerns a person’s way of thinking. For instance, people could be described as having a growth or fixed mindset. Or someone could be said to have an optimistic or pessimistic mindset. Intrapersonal Competencies refers to “self-management and the ability to regulate one’s ...
Along with sound and witty advice about how to write well in the workplace, the Third Edition of Business Writing: What Works, What Won’t busts a few myths about social media . . .
MYTH: Social media (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) have contributed to the erosion of writing skills today—in schools and in the workplace.
Stephanie Vanderslice's most recent book is Rethinking Creative Writing. With Dr. Kelly Ritter, she has also published Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates and Can It Really Be Taught: Rethinking Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy. She publishes fiction, nonfiction and creative criticism and her work is represented by Pen and Ink Literary. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop at the University of Central Arkansas, her column, The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life appears regularly in the Huffington Post. In 2012 Dr. Vanderslice was named Carnegie Foundation/Case Association for the Support of Education US Professor of the Year for the state of Arkansas.
Trent Hergenrader is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches creative writing and literature. His research focuses on creative writing studies, digital writing, and game-based learning, which he brings together in courses where students collaboratively build vast fictional worlds using role-playing games as models for their writing. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Best Horror of the Year #1 and other fine places, and he is co-editor of Creative Writing in the Digital Age: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.
