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You Can't Say That! : Controversial Language


Welcome to WR121, section 9 (Spring 2010).


Our theme is controversial language, exploring topics from prescriptive grammar to book banning and other censorship to subversive genres such as manifestos


This class is designed to get you thinking about the language we use - both in your own writing and in reading work by others. We will analyze texts by professional writers for their rhetorical moves, and you will critique each other's work through the peer review process.


My goal is to prepare you to participate in a community of college writers and also give you skills you can use in many other writing communities you may join both during school and after you graduate.

We will be exploring these topics through informal responses and writing researched pieces in multiple genres - academic papers, news articles, editorials, and manifestos.

 

Digication is an online portfolio system, where you can share your own work and read and comment on what your classmates have written as well. Click on one of the four units at the top, or one of the page links to the left, to get started.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.