English 2010 serves as an introduction to Writing Studies and as the foundational course for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies minor. In this course, we will study and apply rhetoric and writing as: tools for knowledge-making and communication that respond to and shape the values and practices of discourse communities; a focus of research within a community of scholars; a set of practices and processes that are adaptable and recursive.

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 writers use specific rhetorical strategies to engage in ongoing public 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 a Linguistic Observation & Analysis, Public Rhetoric Analysis, and Discourse Community Ethnography.