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Written Inquiry Classes

»Written Inquiry Classes

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Written Inquiry at Chapman University. The Written Inquiry: is is part of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Focus, a General Education requirement at Chapman; is designed to introduce you to written perspectives in a variety of contexts; and requires you to take one class in total.

  • ENG 103 Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition
  • ENG 205 Research-Based Writing
  • ENG 206 Critical Literacies and Community Writing
  • ENG 208 Composing the Self
  • ENG 370 Technical Writing
  • ENG 375 Composing New Media
  • HON 222 Honors Composition: Rhetorical Agency Across Genres
  • HON 238 The Power of Storytelling: Narrative Theory and Practice
  • HON 245 Writing for Life
  • HON 302 Witnessing the World: The Art of Travel Writing
  • HON 326 Writing Food Culture
  • HON 377 Critical Animal Studies
  • HUM 312 Writing in the Legal Context

Written Inquiry Learning Outcome


Students establish active, genuine, and responsible authorial engagement; communicate a purpose—an argument or other intentional point/goal; invokes a specific audience, develop the argument/content with an internal logic-organization; integrate references, citations, and source materially logically and dialogically, indicating how forms of evidence relate to each other and the author’s position; and compose the text with: a style or styles appropriate to the purpose and intended audience, a consistent use of the diction appropriate to the author’s topic and purpose, the ability to establish and vary authorial voice(s) and tone(s), a choice of form(s) and genre(s) appropriate to purpose and audience (forms may be digital and/or multimodal), and rhetorically effective use of language.

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