The Rhetorical Tradition – Writing at the University: A Writing Studio for Transfer Students

This course is designed to help transfer students succeed in discipline-specific research and writing at UC Berkeley. To achieve this goal, the course focuses on developing the following skill sets:

• Students read and discuss scholarship in writing studies and rhetoric to develop a framework for understanding the conventions of advanced academic writing.

• Students identify exemplary writing and writers in their discipline, and research what it means to write successfully in their major.

• Students analyze the generic conventions for writing in their discipline to produce an essay that identifies challenges and opportunities specific to their major and to their experience as students.