ENG 607D - Rhetoric and Public Policy Writing

(3 units)

This course takes policy writing as an object of study. Students will analyze the conventions of specific policy forms and learn to write in those genres. Students will learn how to research issues and write documents, but also how to construct an issue as a problem that needs public intervention. With attention to how problems are represented, students will produce documents including white paper, policy memo, data visualizations, and texts appropriate for public education campaigns.

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Other

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. perform historical, textual, and field-based research to determine problems of public concern.
2. analyze how authors engage the public to construct recognizable problems and viable solutions.
3. produce a white paper, aimed at a particular audience, on an issue of local concern.
4. identify and produce common public policy texts with attention to textual, visual, and sound strategies.
5. write a seminar paper on the relationship between rhetoric and public policy.

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