In Winter Quarter 2025, Dr. Antonio Ceraso taught WRD 508 Discourse & Style. In this class, students approached written style from a rhetorical perspective, examining how style on a micro and macro level can work to accomplish persuasive goals. By exploring methods and terminology for analyzing style and reading a wide range of genres, students ultimately worked to develop their own stylistic repertoires. The class focused on analyzing the relationship between stylistic choices, rhetorical purpose, and rhetorical effects. Throughout the process, students reflected on and articulated their stylistic decision-making as integral to the writing process. Considering their own writing in
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