Engaging the Public is a first-year writing course designed to ethically engage students with the local public through rhetorically aware communication. This class believes that productive and reflective citizenship is important to democratic life and that ethical communication is a cornerstone of such engaged citizenship. This course asks students to use language in all its forms to critically examine and ethically engage in public discourse for the purpose of shaping community.
Visual Document Drafts
CORRECTION: EMAIL ME YOUR VISUAL DOCUMENT IN ADDITION TO BRINGING TWO HARD COPIES TO CLASS.
Please add a comment to this blog wherein you attach a draft of your visual document. Do be sure to bring in two hard copies as well. We are in SC 289 Wednesday, December 3.
Facebook Page Status Check
Create a comment below wherein you post a link to your Facebook Group Page. Do so in-class Monday, November 10.
Research Question
On your blog, do four things in response to Chapter 6 reading:
- Provide a research question for your advocacy project similar to the research questions described in the chapter (it may be one or two related questions).
- Tell us what type of question(s) your research question falls under.
- Tell us what you need to research about your audience.
- Tell us what you need to research to answer your question.
Call the blog "Research Question."
Instructor Introduction
My name is Nathaniel Rivers. I am a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition with an interest in Professional and Technical Writing and Public Rhetorics. I am the Assistant Director of Professional Writing here at Purdue University.
I hail from Evansville, Indiana, where I earned my BA in English and Psychology at the University of Southern Indiana. I received my Master of Arts in English from Purdue in 2005. Other Info:
- Office: Heavilon Hall 414
- Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:30 - 11:20
- Email: nrivers@purdue.edu
- Homepage: web.ics.purdue.edu/~nrivers
