Eng 414 Composing Research

This course aims to teach students how to apply the fundamentals of rhetoric to the research process. It teaches methods of research; the rhetorical nature of research; elements, strategies, and conventions common to research writing, including multi-modal presentations of new knowledge. It puts research skills into practice by engaging students in composition of publishable-quality research, going through the processes of narrowing down a topic, finding resources through secondary research, conducting primary research, coding and evaluating data, reporting, and writing a researched argument following proper citation practices.