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Rhetorics of Inquiry (POROI)

The Project on Rhetorics of Inquiry (POROI) is an interdisciplinary program that explores how scholarship and professional discourse are conducted through argument, how paradigms of knowledge are sensitive to social-political contexts, and how the presentation of scholarly and professional findings is an audience-sensitive process.

POROI seeks to improve academic inquiry and scholarly writing in the arts, humanities, sciences, and professions, especially at the intersections between disciplines. It offers classes, seminars, workshops, conferences, and a peer-reviewed online journal, Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention. Together with the Graduate College, POROI offers the graduate Certificate in Rhetorics of Inquiry.

Certificate

The program's objectives are to:

help students cultivate habits of interdisciplinary study and research through reading, writing, and conversation;

encourage students to cross conceptual and institutional boundaries that often appear to separate the arts, humanities, and professions from each other and from the social, natural, and formal sciences;

improve students' awareness of the rhetorical dimensions of argumentation and inquiry; and

certify that students who have completed the program are prepared to do rhetorical and cross-disciplinary work after they graduate.

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