ENGL 2609

This course surveys ways of life, professions, and callings that literally or figuratively profit from excellence in writing, allowing students to write in each corresponding genre. Encountering approximately 12 roles across creative, commercial and civic spheres, students learn how the art of writing adapts itself to each job, task, or mission while maintaining certain universal rhetorical principles. A range of contemporary and historic roles, both expected and unexpected, offer students a broad sense of what writitng and writers do in the world and why their craft matters in specific contexts.