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• WRH 365: Writing for the Health Professions

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Practice and training in writing for the health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, healthcare advocacy). Students complete assignments that offer practice in writing, revising, and critiquing common genres in the healthcare professions, including graduate school application materials, literature reviews, and public health campaigns.
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• WRH 370: Science Writing

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will investigate the principles and practices of effective science writing for a diverse public. Specifically, students will learn about science writing genres, theories of scientific rhetoric, and the role new media technologies play in making science accessible to an audience of non-experts. Course texts, online discussions, and in-class activities will help students understand how rhetoric not only helps to communicate scientific findings but also shapes its production, distribution, and circulation across public and professional contexts. Students will put this knowledge into practice through hands-on projects that ask them to produce a range of science writing genres. Prerequisite:    WRH 370 requires prerequisites of WRT 120; and WRT 200 or WRT 204 or WRT 205 or WRT 206 or WRT 208 or WRT 220.
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• WRH 405: Topics in Professional and Technical Writing

  3.00 - 6.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A topic of current interest in professional and technical writing. The topic will be announced before registration. Prerequisite:    WRH 405 requires a prerequisite of WRT 200 or WRT 204 or WRT 205 or WRT 206 or WRT 208 or WRT 220.
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• WRT 120: Effective Writing I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An intensive course in writing that emphasizes skill in organization and awareness of styles of writing and levels of usage as ways of expressing and communicating experiences. Prerequisite:    WRT 120 requires placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 123: Effective Writing with Supplemental Writing Workshop

  4.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  In addition to the intensive writing work of WRT 120, this course requires added instructor workshop sessions and mandatory tutoring assistance to support enrolled student writers' growth and development. Open to First-Year Students. Prerequisite:    WRT 123 requires placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 200: Critical Writing and Research

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Continues the expository writing experience offered in Effective Writing I, and explores techniques of gathering, evaluating, and selecting materials to be used in writing research papers. Prerequisite:    WRT 200 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123 or placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 204: Critical Writing: Approaches to Popular Culture

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The strategies of critical theory and critical writing will be used to examine and explain popular culture. The course will explore multiple media - such as print, television, film, music, and various visual and electronic formats - as representations of humanities, arts, and sciences, about which students will write researched, critical cultural analyses. Prerequisite:    WRT 204 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123 or placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 205: Critical Writing: Investigating Experience

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Exploration of the student's personal history and attitudes through carefully structured compositions, including autobiographical narrative, memoir, and introspective analysis. Prerequisite:    WRT 205 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123 or placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 206: Critical Writing: Multidisciplinary Imagination

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Imagination becomes a vehicle for students to explore a variety of disciplinary and social perspectives on issues of relevance to society. Assignments cover writerly issues, such as genre, style, and language, and related issues, such as the role of imagination, innovations, and discovery in the sciences, arts, social sciences, and humanities, through documented research. Prerequisite:    WRT 206 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123 or placement via the WRITE survey.
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• WRT 208: Critical Writing: Entering Public Sphere

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Publication is a goal for many writers. Reporters, scientists, poets, academics, and others write for publication. This class will require students to write for professional and/or class-produced print forums appropriate for humanities, arts, social sciences, and scientific fields, examining those forums in order to analyze and critique their discourse conventions. The course will provide opportunities for students to submit their work to such forums for publication. The class may also produce its own publication about writing-related news and events that students will learn about by conducting documented research projects. Prerequisite:    WRT 208 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123 or placement via the WRITE survey.
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