| source University of Toronto, Mississauga (X) |
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department Professional Writing and Communication (X) |
Examines theory and offers practice in expressive narrative, the most basic prose mode and the foundation for other prose modes. Students explore ideas about product and process, form and meaning. Students will experiment with syntactic structures to explore how the form of language serves, or fails to serve, intention and the expression of meaning that may be understood and interpreted by others. The course draws on theorists including Aristotle, Chomsky, Elbow, Kinneavy, Britton, Bakhtin. [
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This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See
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Examines theory and offers practice in nonfiction prose with a range of specialized purposes. Students will explore conceptions of genre and the way genre shapes, and is shaped by, the social context of communications. The course considers rhetorical devices and figures of speech, such as metaphor and irony, and the way these formal elements influence meaning and the way their application depends on a community of understanding. The course draws from a range of theorists from Aristotle to Rorty, Bazerman, and Fish [
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Examines science as rhetoric and the way this rhetoric mixes with other rhetorics from an interdisciplinary perspective appropriate for science students and for humanities and social science students. The course examines scientific writing and journalistic writing about science. Through theory and applied research and writing, students consider the special features of science rhetoric including protocols for research and documentation. This course draws from a range of theorists including Kuhn, Popper, Hempel, Hacking. [
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Examines language by approaching it through its social users -- ethnic groups, genders, and social classes -- and its contextualized usages -- the languages of publishing, advertising, law, technical communications, academe and the electronic media. The course explores the functions of these languages and the roles of such forces as dictionaries, social change, and new communications technologies in the evolution of these languages. [
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Examines written history as rhetoric and considers various conceptions of history and procedures for historical research and writing with reference to a range for models from Thucydides to contemporary writers of specialized and local histories. Students will conceptualize, design, and carry out primary source historical research to produce original history using locally available sources and materials. [
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Examines writing/communication as a social act that both shapes and is shaped by the discourse community where it takes place. Students will explore genre as part of a social system with reference to theories by Fairclough, Kuhn, Lemke, Rorty, Geertz, Swales, Bakhtin. Students will design and carry out primary research that explores the social character of communication. [
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Examines the rhetoric of speech drawing on theorists from Plato to Havelock to Ong, and considers implications of "great leap models" that present orality and literacy on a continuum. This course considers a range of oral practices from informal to formal, and from spontaneous to research-based and examines a range of rhetorical modes: dialogue, storytelling, "street-talk," reporting, debate and presentational address. Significant course time will be devoted to students' oral performance, both individual and team-based.[
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Examines the role and responsibility of the communicator across a range of rhetorical settings extending from the private to the public sphere. Drawing on theorists such as Bordieu, Bakhtin, Eco, Fairclough, Foucault, Habermas, Lacan and Lemke for principles of discourse analysis, students learn to recognize, analyze and question the social, political, cultural, ethical and economic dynamics of "text" in order to become critical interpreters of rhetoric across a range of multi-modal, multi-medial forms. [
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Examines organizational discourse with special attention to financial analysis and financial documents as rhetorical elements. Students will design and carry out primary research into organizations such as publicly listed companies and non-profit organizations and will examine different modes for reporting research findings. Principles of discourse analysis and genre theory provide a conceptual framework. Students do not need backgrounds in accounting or finance to manage this course. [
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Examines writing about geographic places and the multiple rhetorics --- scientific, historical, geographical, social, political, economic --- that come into play. Students will design and carry out original primary research to develop their writing projects. [
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Examines the evolving rhetoric of scientific, journalistic, legal and political writing about environmental issues. The course will consider eco-linguistic theory and eco-critical discourse analysis. Through theory and applied research, including primary research, and writing, students will consider protocols, research standards, and ethics in writing about environment and appraise current issues around the emerging language of sustainability. [
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Examines theories and research and production techniques for texts meant for electronic media. Students will design and carry out original primary research to script, edit and produce texts for podcasts. [
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A research/writing project designed by the student in consultation with a faculty member. Independent Study students will produce a substantial body of writing at a high professional standard submitted in weekly installments and will develop their drafts in editing sessions with other Independent Studies students. Students will also design and carry out a reading program. The Project Supervisor will be chosen in consultation with the Program Coordinator. Students may not take
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A research/writing project designed by the student in consultation with a faculty member. Independent Study students will produce a substantial body of writing at a high professional standard submitted in weekly installments and will develop their drafts in editing sessions with other Independent Studies students. Students will also design and carry out a reading program. The Project Supervisor will be chosen in consultation with the Program Coordinator. Students may not take
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Examines principles, procedures and practice of original research that culminate in writing and terms that accompany the discourse of research: evidence, results, validity, theory, data, significance with reference to theorists such as Eisner, Geertz, Bogden and Biklen, Clifford and Marcus, Glesne and Peshkin, Strauss and Corbin. Students will design and carry out limited qualitative research projects and will consider criteria for evaluating communications values in research-based writing. [
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Explores the issues beyond translation that bi- or multilingual writers face when they relanguage experiences in one culture and language into another. Students will consider humour, stereotypes, cultural representations, identities, rhetorical and narrative norms through the theoretical lenses of Bhabha, Bakhtin, Halliday, Lemke, Hall, Trinh and others. [
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This course is a practical internship and is available only upon application from PWC Majors. Through a placement, students will apply their expertise in writing, editing and communications. Students must plan well in advance for their placement and work closely with CCIT/PWC placement officer to determine eligibility and suitability. A report of the placement, samples of work completed on the placement and a presentation about it will be required at the end of the placement. These, and the employer's assessment, will determine the course mark.
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This course is a practical internship and is available only upon application from PWC Majors who have completed
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Examines principles, procedures and practices in book publishing. Students, working collaboratively, will collect material for, design, edit, typeset, print and assemble books. Students will consider philosophical, aesthetic, and economic factors that guide publishing, editing and design decisions. Students must apply using the on-line application form on the PWC website to take this course. Students who do not receive formal permission may not take this course. [
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Examines principles, practices, and rhetorical issues in journalistic investigation and writing. The course will consider various models. Students will design and carry out investigative projects that culminate in a series of journalistic articles. [
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Examines the principles, procedures, practices and sites of collaborative writing. Students carry out collaborative writing projects and consider theories by Bazerman, Bruffee, Gere, and Ede and Lunsford that seek to understand the process and the product of collaborative design and composition of texts. [
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An in-depth examination of topics in writing and text production. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. [
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