PWR 1HR: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Fake News and the Rhetoric of "Truthiness"
Development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Critical analysis of the fake news phenomenon, considering its impact on the political process and how we discuss important issues of the day. See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1IY: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetorics of Travel and Tourism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Yamboliev, I. (PI)
PWR 1JA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Number One
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
PWR 1JD: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Frog Princes and Ugly Ducklings: The Rhetoric of Self-Transformation
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Davie-Kessler, J. (PI)
PWR 1JH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: Rhetoric and Deception
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of untruth, misrepresentation, and deception in journalistic and scientific rhetoric. See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JJ: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Language and Thought
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Johnson, J. (PI)
PWR 1JJJ: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Futility
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
PWR 1JL: Writing & Rhetoric 1: 'Saving Strangers': Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of how media representations of world crises are crafted to persuade us to action, appealing to our senses of justice, pragmatism, outrage, and compassion. See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Last offered: Winter 2015
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JM: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetoric of the Startups
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JP: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Consumer Culture
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students explore what consumerism says about the larger culture and the segmented groups within it, analyzing popular and scholarly texts as well as current trends in pop culture, to research how the activities of consumerism shape culture. See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Last offered: Winter 2011
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
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