Dr.
Beth S. Bennett
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This course is a
required course for all graduate students in Communication Studies and is designed
to meet two primary objectives:
- To introduce beginning
graduate students to the nature of scholarship in the area of contemporary
rhetorical theory and
- To help students
develop skills necessary to writing scholarship.
Consequently, students
will engage in various forms of scholarly writing, such as abstracts, book reviews,
a scholarly essay (journal submission), and become familiar with the guidelines
required for scholarly publication. Students will be expected to become competent
in MLA or APA bibliographic style and proper documentation.
Secondary objectives
of the course include --
- Examining how
the nature and scope of rhetorical theory have developed in the twentieth
century within the discipline of speech communication, especially in relation
to other fields of study, such as literary criticism, composition theory,
philosophy, history, speech acts, communication theory, and social science,
and
- Exploring various
theoretical and practical issues confronting rhetorical theory at the start
of the twenty-first century.
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Beth S. Bennett, bbennett@bama.ua.edu,
created 28 July 1998.