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 a Linguistic Observation & Analysis, Rhetorical Analysis, and Discourse Community Analysis.

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.