Have you ever wondered why you write the way that you do? Thought about your unique literacies and linguistic diversity?  Have you considered how texts are composed, and the strategies that authors employ to construct them? In this class, we will employ a writing about writing approach to discover, observe, and analyze our identities as writers, as well as to understand the ways in which professional authors in our discipline use specific rhetorical strategies to engage in academic conversations. We will have multiple opportunities to research and write collaboratively, as well as to write in different modalities (text, video, podcast, etc). Course projects include an Author Self-Portrait, Linguistic Observation & Analysis, as well as Rhetorical Reading Analysis of a scholarly article in your major field of study.