PHY 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adam Curtis, Jtc Corporation, Euronews

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Physics
• Course: PHY 158
• Professor: Alcala Luis

Document Summary

An introduction to research, writing, and rhetorical practices employed in academic and professional contexts. The course examines the operation of genres, the audiences they address, and the purposes they serve. The course focuses on the analysis and development of student writing and rhetorical practice. To this end we will be encountering, in addition to the longer readings, a great variety of shorter, paragraph-long genre samples, which will give us numerous opportunities to speculate about the interplay of audience, purpose, and genre. At the same time, we will be writing many shorter, experimental texts in class that participate in the same rhetorical interplay: for example, we will be reading a variety of tweets as well as composing a variety of tweets. The tools of writing are also tools of analysis, and overall the goal of the course is to give you practice in employing these tools to construct texts as well as ideas.