Special problems. Department consent required

Special problems. Department consent required

In this course, students will learn skills related to literary programming, editing, and publishing. Topics will include strategies for and approaches to running a successful reading series, managing, and producing a literary journal, book publishing, and others. Students will have the opportunity to study and learn about the English Dept. journal Jabberwocky and to intern for the MFA's Visiting Writers Series. Students may also take the course to support their work on professional literary internships they have secured themselves.

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This course helps English majors find their way to the post-graduate life they want. Students practice important job search skills, learn to articulate the worth of their major, and leave the course with a better sense of their vocational direction. In addition to receiving individualized guidance in creating cover letters and resumes of immediate use, students work on multiple other assignments: attendance at career events, interviews with professionals from fields of interest, a professional presentation, a short paper researching professions, and participation in a mock interview.

This course is an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric, defined here as the art of persuasion. For nearly 2,500 years, rhetoric has been the central academic discipline for thinking about the adaptation of discourse to purpose, audience, occasion, and subject matter. The earliest rhetorical arts were focused on public speaking in direct democracies; later rhetorics treated eloquence more broadly, including written discourse and its role in not only political and legal affairs but also religion, science, commerce, art, and education.

Introduces principles of software technical writing and documentation. Simulates the writing/editing process used in the computer industry. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 379.

Presents skills required in technical editing and technical writing, and the forms required by scientific, industrial, and corporate communication. Emphasizes appropriate style, graphics, and diagrams. Open only to seniors and juniors with a GPA of 3.0 or better.

Presents skills required in technical editing and technical writing, and the forms required by scientific, industrial, and corporate communication. Emphasizes appropriate style, graphics, and diagrams. Open only to seniors and juniors with a GPA of 3.0 or better.

This course will ask how African American writers sustain and manipulate a culturally specific literary tradition at various historical moments, ranging from the Colonial period to the post-Civil Rights era.