Welcome to Writing About Gossip and Gender! This course is designed to provoke thought about gossip--its origins, its connotations, and its place in society--while examining the position of gender in society and how it is depicted. Gossip is everywhere and comes in all shapes and sizes



Throughout this course students will:

• Explore Gossip through different lenses such as feminism and queer theory

• ​Position their own perspectives on the topic

• See how Gossip is used in popular culture

• Incorporate Technology in their Writing Process

• Apply major rhetorical concepts of Ethos, Pathos, Logos and positions of purpose and audience, and see how they take shape across media

• Compose using multiple modes and multiple media to explore a full range of composing possibilities.

• Understand Logical Fallacies

• Use Research to establish a position/argument

• Approach Research as an Inquiry Based Process

• ​Establish a critical eye to media, representation and experience

• Become active producers of knowledge through media instead of passive consumers--"Prosumers."