WRITING 260S
Analyzing Rhetoric
Hannah T. Davis
Description from DukeHub
Learn methods of rhetorical criticism that enable you to analyze different ways that texts, images, and discourses work to convey, shape, and, at times, control meaning. Engage with rhetoric as a means of communication based in specific contexts and designed for particular audiences and purposes. Employ various frameworks of rhetorical analysis (i.e. metaphor, narrative, genre, and ideological criticism) that enable you to discover and dissect the possibilities, limits, and consequences of the choices that people, including you, make when speaking, writing, and even posting online.
Skills
- writingdescription: "writing" and 2 more
- public speakingdescription: "rhetorical" and 2 more
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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