WRIT 8011 is also offered in Spring 2025
WRIT 8011 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2023 | WRIT 8011 Section 001: Research Methods in Writing Studies and Technical Communication (65651)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Enrollment Requirements:
- STC/RSTC grad major
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Nolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 235
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (8 of 8 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The primary objectives of this course are to provide students in the rhetoric and scientific & technical communication (RSTC) MA and PhD programs with an understanding of research literature and approaches in the field and help students gain insights into the arguments made by researchers. This course trains students in strategies for designing and developing their own research, and provides a groundwork in the field's most common approaches to gathering and analyzing data. Students also learn about the research of the RSTC graduate faculty and PhD alumni and complete a University-based course for ethics in human participants research. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to create a persuasive research proposal and justify the means of data collection, analysis, theory, and positioning of the project.
- Class Description:
- Quantitative/qualitative research methods. Theoretical perspectives that demonstrate/test analytical approaches to scientific/technological rhetoric.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65651/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 June 2008
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