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| | Refiguring English| Department of English | Portland State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The English department now offers over 200 writing courses each year in a wide variety of genres and levels: academic writing, professional writing, creative writing, nonfiction writing, discipline-specific writing, life writing, and writing with/for technology. These range from first-year writing to graduate seminars of all sorts. |
 | | As we see it, the common focus of our discipline is on the texts of the English language itself as media of expression, imagination, and historical determination. Every day, our university conducts it various activities education, artistic endeavor, administration, research, and outreach through the medium of the English language. |
 | | English may be approached as a means of persuasion, as an aesthetic medium, and as a cultural process. |
| www.english.pdx.edu /refiguring.html (1168 words) |
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