ENC 3416.002 Summer Pandey

This course introduces students to the principles of composing and editing across different modes and media, along with the constraints and opportunities in, with, and across each context and audience. In this course, students will engage with multiple kinds of texts: they will read some, write some, talk about some, connect some with others, and simply create some. Throughout, they will be developing a language and a vocabulary that they can use to describe those texts and interactions, and to describe what happens to the texts and to the human beings interacting with the texts when they do this work. The goal here is to help students connect, create, and read texts differently, to help them become much more informed about how others will interact with their texts, and that they bring a new theory and intentionality to their composing and editing processes. They should finish this semester with a more robust understanding of the connections between technology and media, and of the ways they affect the textual process and contribute to overall human experiences.

Questions guiding this course that the students will be reflecting on:

• What is rhetoric, and what is a rhetorical situation?
• What does it mean to compose in multiple modes? How does it change the traditional definition of writing?
• What’s the connection between circulation, mapping, and composing?
• What’s the role of an e-portfolio?
• How can we understand digital composing (and everything else) through critical reflection?