Course Units

Our course features a culminating series of four major projects. While each project is graded individually, you will complete much of the research, reading, and other components with members of your group. Broadly, our course follows five major units. Please click the link for each unit to view readings, videos, and other materials corresponding to, and assigned for, a particular unit:

Unit 1: Introduction to Rhetoric & Academic Research

Unit 2: Secondary Research & Principles of Source Use

Unit 3: Primary Research

Unit 4: Critical Argument

Unit 5: Communicating Beyond the University