Summer 2006: RHE 306 Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition

What This Course Is All About

RHE 306-Rhetoric and Composition (Summer) is a course in argumentation that is specifically intended to be a course for incoming freshmen. As a result, the paper assignments and readings are designed to help you “write your way” into the University environment, as well as to give you an idea of the kind of critical thinking and writing that you will be asked to do over the rest of your college career. What we do here will enhance your understanding of academic writing and give you practice in producing it. You will learn how to:
• identify, evaluate, construct, and organize effective arguments
• read critically
• conduct library and on-line research and document sources
• produce a clean, efficient style and adapt it to various rhetorical situations
• edit and proofread your own and others’ prose
In this course, you will gain practice in analyzing written, spoken, and visual rhetoric; evaluating arguments for and against contemporary social and political issues; and proposing a solution to a particular problem.

Finally, you will learn to work with one another in both classroom and electronic environments to produce more effective and powerful arguments. Welcome!