What is a story? How does fiction create or reflect the culture and historical moment in which they are written? Why do we (or why should we) read literature at all? In this class, we will build answers to these foundational questions. Using a critical lens, we will work to understand both the implied and stated meaning of short stories from the last two centuries, as well as developing our knowledge of the key elements of fiction.
Liz Delf
Instructor
Oregon State University
Moreland 204D
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1341
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Course Information
Available Spring Term
Writing is a social act. Through writing we preserve or change the attitudes and beliefs of others, build and maintain relationships, and persuade others to take specific actions. To communicate effectively in the workplace, it is essential to read contexts, think critically, and write clearly.This course focuses on the rhetorical nature of organizational communication and will help you develop a better understanding of audience, argument, convention, and expression. Your work in this course will help prepare you to engage with a wide range of institutions; however, you are encouraged to use coursework to develop a better understanding of workplaces within your major.
Available Spring Term
Technical Writing (WR 327) will prepare you to produce instructive, informative, and persuasive documents aimed at well-defined and achievable outcomes. Technical documents are precise, concise, logically organized, and based on factual information. The purpose and target audience of each document determine the style that an author chooses, including document layout, vocabulary, sentence and paragraph structure, and visuals. To this end, this course will teach processes for analyzing “writing contexts” and producing effective, clean, and reader-centered documents in an efficient manner. You can expect to gather, read, and present the technical content of your field to various audiences in attractive, error-free copy, as well as to learn strategies for presenting that content orally.
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