Writing & Rhetoric

Innis College’s Writing and Rhetoric Program offers a diverse array of courses that explore the worlds of oral, written, and online discourse. Our Writing courses teach students how to write well in the modes, genres, and styles appropriate to particular disciplinary, institutional, and creative contexts. Our Rhetoric courses investigate the discipline’s core ideas, history, contact with other disciplines, applications, and metamorphoses across media platforms. Writing, one of the most important rhetorical skills that anyone can develop, is an invaluable craft both in academic programs and beyond the university. Rhetors—those who can adapt their language to audience and context and use language skillfully—exert a powerful influence in almost any setting. Innis College’s Writing courses focus on the practical strategies required to write effectively and artfully in multiple modes, genres and contexts: academic, business, creative, and political. Overall, each course is oriented towards teaching students the specialized writing, reading, research, and editing skills involved in specific writing genres.