WRR103 helps you develop a toolkit for essay-writing in the humanities. Over the course of the term, we move from the sentence level to the paragraph and essay levels, equipping you with a skill set that empowers you to engage in a wide variety of practical writing tasks.

Writing skills are essential in university. Also essential is knowing how to find and evaluate research. This class will help you understand the research process from start to finish.

If you are interested in improving your academic essay writing, then please consider taking JWE206. Our goal is to teach students to write academic humanities essays by conducting rhetorical analyses of personal essays — also called creative non-fiction.

When contemporary critics seek to discredit dishonest politicians, they tend to refer to their discourse as “mere rhetoric.” But there is so much more to rhetoric than deception.

Want to be a part of the scholarly conversation that is central to academic writing? When scholars write papers, they are “talking” to other scholars. In WRR317, you will learn to write research-based academic essays in which you meaningfully engage with the published work of others.

You will learn the theory and practice of effective and ethical communication in the workplace, including business, government, and non-profit organizations.

WRR302 has been designed for Rotman Commerce students. All projects are group-based to help you develop your teamwork skills.

This course brings rhetorical thought into important dialogue with health research and medical practices. You will study the relationship between persuasion, well-being and medical practices, interdisciplinary approaches to weaving the humanities and the sciences together, and ways to insert yourself into vital conversations abut health and well-being.

Through food, medicine, and shelter, we are surrounded by plants, yet many discussions of climate change overlook the vital role that plants play in our landscapes and our psyches. This course uses rhetoric, the study of persuasion, to analyze the cultural, political, and scientific significance of plants.

How do images and objects communicate with and persuade viewers? Visual rhetoric is part of the broader academic field known as rhetorical studies. This course will introduce you to the “language” of display.

In copy editing and stylistic editing, editors help writers to express their sentences as clearly, concisely, and effectively as possible. Using a book publishing context, this course introduces professional strategies for these later stages of the editorial process.

Everyone tells stories. But what is "story," and why does it matter? What distinguishes mediocre from masterful storytelling, the shallow from the profound — and how can you learn to find, and develop, your own powerful stories?

Using a book publishing context, this course introduces developmental editing and substantive editing — two early stages that focus on the big picture rather than the details.

Given the climate crisis, how do environmental organizations use communication to advance their aims? This community-engaged learning course uses theories of social change and persuasion to examine a variety of genres. Through collaboration with a campus or other community partner, students will apply their academic learning and skills to writing-related projects that address human and community needs in a reciprocal manner. Activities and reflections will provide opportunities for students to strengthen critical thinking and communicative competencies. Writing projects may involve composing texts in multimodal and/or digital forms.