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PWR 2EI

Writing & Rhetoric 2: Knock Off: Rhetorics of Copying, Memeing, Modding and Piracy

UNITS:4
GRADING:Letter (ABCD/NP)
LEVEL:Undergrad
GER:Writing 2

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This class takes as its theme traditions, practices, and artifacts that call the premises of originality into question and that playfully unsettle the state and corporate narratives of cultural ownership that sustain them. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2ei For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Syllabus for selected term:
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Sections

1 Term
Seminar 1Open
ID: 25273
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Monday, Wednesday
TIME:9:30 AM – 11:20 AM
LOCATION:160-330
INSTRUCTOR:
Pei, Eldon
4units
Seminar 2Open
ID: 26298
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Monday, Wednesday
TIME:11:30 AM – 1:20 PM
LOCATION:160-330
INSTRUCTOR:
Pei, Eldon
4units

PWR 2EI: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Knock Off: Rhetorics of Copying, Memeing, Modding and Piracy

4 units · Letter (ABCD/NP) · GER: Writing 2

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This class takes as its theme traditions, practices, and artifacts that call the premises of originality into question and that playfully unsettle the state and corporate narratives of cultural ownership that sustain them. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2ei For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Seminar — Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM — 160-330 — Pei, Eldon (Undergrad)
  • Seminar — Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM — 160-330 — Pei, Eldon (Undergrad)

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