ENGH344

Critically approaches the discourses people use at work. Students may identify, analyze, and critique particular forms of speech and writing, paying attention to their role in enforcing distinctions of class, power, and mobility, and other economic forces. Examines the changing rhetoric of work in the modern era, for example, the campaign for workplace safety, or the relationships between rhetorics of work and feminism. Other topics may include work in the context of neoliberal and globalizing forces. Also, examines the operations of languages that characterize writing in a range of professions including legal, medical, corporate, pharmaceutical, and financial. Rhetorical and literary theorists such as Burke, Brandt, Rose, or Olbrechts-Tyteca may frame our analysis. Students may conduct original research into a particular workplace or set of discourses.