Lecture Notes

 Note: There are no lecture notes for Week 4 as student genre analysis presentations took place during this period.

SES # TOPICS
Week One
1 Genre, Rhetorical Situations, Abstracts, and Stasis Theory (PDF)
2 Reasoning with Sources: Evaluating, Managing, Integrating, and Citing the Work of Others (PDF - 1.5MB)
Week Two
3 Source Synthesis: Revealing Patterns and Trends (PDF)
4 Generating Texts: How Understanding Genre and Generic Language Patterns Helps Us Compose (PDF)
Week Three
5 Revision (PDF)