PWR 2 Assignment Sequence and Curriculum
Taken in a student's second year, PWR 2 is designed to build on students’ introduction to research in PWR 1 and serve as a bridge to their later work in WIM courses and the writing of Honors Theses.
Students in PWR 2 continue to focus on research-based writing, making rhetorical choices about format, genre, diction, style, and media as appropriate to the goals of their research and to the audiences they wish to address. PWR 2 adds a focus on delivery--the fifth canon of rhetoric--and thus on the written, oral, and multimedia presentation of research.
The assignment sequence is as follows:
Additional Writing and/or Delivery
In addition to the major assignments above, instructors may ask students to do additional informal writing in the form of drafts, blogs, peer responses, additional delivery in the form of impromptu delivery exercises, and interim presentations on their research process, and rehearsals. Some instructors ask their students to present their Delivery of Research to an audience outside of class, in an academic conference or community performance.
Overall work required
During the quarter, students should expect to complete 18-20 minutes of oral presentations and 18-25 pages of writing, 8-10 in print form (writing to be read in print) and 10-15 in script form (writing to be delivered to an audience).
