This piece helped me position my speculations within, beyond, and perhaps against the rhetorical traditions and theories we had explored through the course. This piece let me explore the topic of feminism, a topic that I am extremely interested in in collaboration with the topic of technology, another interest of mine.
Topics in Writing
WRIT 2500
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Dr. Pauline Reid
This course will address how writing and rhetoric responds to – and potentially creates conditions of – political crisis, as well as how these moments of crisis transform and challenge our theories of expression. This course will build from rhetorical history and traditions that contend with the main problem of rhetoric’s ethical imperative: what are the relationships or obligations, if any, of rhetoric/writing to a larger sense of ethics? This broad question will guide us through investigations of rhetoric’s role in the civic sphere, problems of truthfulness and/or post-truth, and demagoguery, and introduce us to alternative frameworks involving inclusivity, invitationality, and listening.