ENC 3310 Spring 2022 Pandey

This course emphasizes the need for students to produce thoughtful, well-constructed texts for a
number of audiences with different expectations and assumptions. Viewed broadly, texts can
include written, visual, digital, and audio communication, which will come together in this class
under a rhetorical framework. Successful writers must learn to negotiate a variety of contexts and
genres in their formal and informal communication. Thus, students need to develop rhetorical
savvy and strategies necessary to successfully enter into dialogue about important issues. Rather
than focusing on a single type of written communication, students in this course will learn
rhetorical analysis as a way to understand texts better and as a means toward improving and
diversifying their own writing. They will engage in the full range of writing
processes—invention, arrangement, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading—for multiple
assignments. Students will also explore multi-media composition, experimenting with combining
written, visual, and audio texts in digital environments.

The core idea of the course is that writing is an ongoing process. Therefore, it requires ample time, continuous effort, judicious revision, and reflection. The course intends to demystify writing through multimodal assignments, exercises, presentations, and reflections. The class operates as an intellectual community where writing helps people think critically and creatively about their own writing processes as well as those of other people, including their classmates. Furthermore, the course helps students view writing through different perspectives, learn to write in diverse contexts, and to write with different purposes, for instance, to inform, entertain, instruct, and express.

This course meets the Upper-Division Writing Requirement.