Overview of What I learned taking Advanced Writing (sciences)
Throughout the semester taking the Advance Writing (sciences) class the main goal the professor wanted us to learned was stated in the description of his syllabus saying, "the hypothesis that writing and rhetoric shape what counts as science, how it is practiced, and who pays attention to it." In our class we tested this hypothesis by looking at rhetorical studies such as the "Caesar's Last Breath" and "Chicago Guide to Communications Science" along with other rhetorical studies. I was able to learn the 6 different course outcomes, which were discourse community knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, genre knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, subject matter knowledge, and writing process knowledge. I also learned many different terms throughout the semester that help with analyzing the rhetorical studies in the minor assignments and major assignments we were assigned. Some of the genre terms I learned in this class were genre set, genre system, activity system discourse community, and social fact. We learned all the rhetorical appeals ethos, pathos, and logos. We learned how pathos is writing based on your values and beliefs, ethos is the credibility in which the writer has, and logos is simply the reasoning being what a writer is trying to define to the reader. In the course we learned all about the rhetorical canons as well. Some of the canons I learned were invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. I will go more in depth about the terminology I listed above and how I apply them to the rhetorical studies in the minor assignments and major assignments in the "Reflections" page.