ENC2135 is about learning to communicate effectively across contexts
Our Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be better able to:
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convey ideas in clear, coherent, grammatically correct prose adapted to their particular purpose, occasion, and audience. They will understand that writing is a process involving practice, drafting, revision, and editing.
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analyze and interpret complex texts and representations of meaning in a variety of formats
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gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes
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develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and structure
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locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, and bias) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources
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use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those from appropriate sources
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gain experience negotiating variations such as structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics in genre conventions
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practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own work