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Welcome to Writing About Gossip and Gender! This course is designed to provoke thought about gossip--its origins, its connotations, and its place in society--while examining the position of gender in society and how it is depicted. Gossip is everywhere and comes in all shapes and sizes
Throughout this course students will:
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Explore Gossip through different lenses such as feminism and queer theory
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Position their own perspectives on the topic
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See how Gossip is used in popular culture
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Incorporate Technology in their Writing Process
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Apply major rhetorical concepts of Ethos, Pathos, Logos and positions of purpose and audience, and see how they take shape across media
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Compose using multiple modes and multiple media to explore a full range of composing possibilities.
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Understand Logical Fallacies
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Use Research to establish a position/argument
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Approach Research as an Inquiry Based Process
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Establish a critical eye to media, representation and experience
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Become active producers of knowledge through media instead of passive consumers--"Prosumers."
Writing About Gossip and Gender
ENC1145-10
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