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Apr 20, 2024
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WTNG 270 - Travel Writing
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course familiarizes students with some of the typical genres that make up the field of travel writing. Students will gain experience adapting to various professional and public writing situations as they focus on the rhetorical distinctions between these genres and on the challenges of writing about a place responsibly. The course emphasizes the ways in which effective travel writing depends on the study of rhetoric. Students will learn how to assess the rhetorical situation and to make genre decisions based on issues of exigence, purpose, audience, and kairos. Bristol, RI will serve as the site of exploration and inspiration for travel pieces that inform, persuade, and reflect. Students will become fluent in genre analysis and writing with clarity for different purposes to different audiences.
3 credits
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