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WRTC 434. Advanced Popular Writing


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013092 Grading Basis GRD

Advanced focus on a particular genre in popular writing, such as reviews, commentaries, opinion pieces, profiles, blogs, or ads. Students will engage with a specific genre to acquire both a critical understanding of its rhetorical aims and practices as well as the skills to practice writing within that genre. Students in this course have the opportunity to develop several professional portfolio pieces. Prerequisite(s): WRTC 200  and WRTC 201  or permission of instructor