Style, Voice, Editing: Rhetorical Choices and The Art of Effective Writing

Approach style as a rhetorical art of selection influenced by audience, purpose, genre, and context. Analyze grammar and syntax through aesthetic and rhetorical lenses. Experiment with different writing styles from various literary works, rhetorical traditions, and disciplinary genres individually and collaboratively. Instruction and practice in methods of developmental editing and copyediting. Analyze values, judgments, preferences and epistemologies inherent in individual, generic, and disciplinary stylistic choices and standards.