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Taught during Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009

This writing intensive course focuses on the forms of communication most often found in the working lives of accountants: memos, letters, proposals, and reports. While gaining practical experience producing these documents, students will also consider the theories underlying successful writing in accounting. ENC 5236 provides a context for this type of writing, showing how and why particular documents are necessary in the workplace.

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Taught during Spring 2009

The undergraduate catalog calls ENC 3310 a "course in methods of exposition: definition, classification, comparison and contrast, analysis, illustration, identification." We'll be faithful to the spirit of this description by focusing on prose style. I may ask you to read and discuss some published essays, which will serve as examples of prose style in action. But mostly you'll be writing and revising your own texts.

Taught two sections during Spring 2005

This course is designed to better acquaint elementary education majors with the types of writing they will teach and engage in as professionals. Students will develop and employ strategies for narrative, expository, and persuasive texts. In addition, they will develop more general strategies for inventing, arranging, and refining the style of our texts. Though a couple of the assignments will ask students to reflect on their views about teaching writing, most will ask them to actually write creative and professional texts for specific audiences and purposes. Finally, this class approaches writing as a rhetorically-driven process, and thus will introduce students to a limited amount of rhetorical theory.

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Taught during Fall 2004, Fall 2007

ENC 2210 Technical Writing is an introduction to technical and professional writing. This course presents students with practical information about communicating in different kinds of workplace environments and professional/technical discourse communities. Throughout the semester students will produce and analyze a number of common technical writing genres, including emails, letters, résumés, memos, reports, proposals, technical descriptions, technical definitions, technical manuals, and proposals. Students will work toward understanding how to analyze and react to rhetorical situations each genre and writing situation presents, including issues of audience, organization, visual design, style, and the material production of documents.

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Taught during Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008

This course is intended to introduce students to the transition underway between literacy and post-literacy (electracy) in contemporary culture. This shift is approached through its rhetorical implications, with the students as makers (and not just consumers) of new media effects. Hence, this course is best taught in the Networked Writing Environment, in the context of which its assignments seem less experimental than they do in a conventional setting. At the same time, this course is adaptable to the conventional classroom. As an extension of ENC 1102, you are already expected to know basic argument, grammar, and mechanics.

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Taught two sections during Fall 2003, and one during Summer 2008

This course introduces students to the principal elements of writing effectively. ENC 1101 focuses on writing rhetorical arguments, building research skills, and developing critical thinking through reading, writing, and discussion. Students will learn how to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their own and their peers' writing and will explore how differing conventions, styles, purposes, and audiences affect writing practices.