ENC 3416 Summer 2024 - Ramsey

ENG 3416 (WEPO) is one of three core courses for Editing, Writing, Media (EWM), and it helps provide a foundation for the major. As part of this foundation, this course introduces you to the principles of composing and editing across different media environments, paying special attention to how each new composing environment has its own audience, context, and purpose to consider along with affordances and constraints. We will also focus on how your composing process changes and the challenges that you face as you compose across spaces.

Overall, this course attempts to help you: 1) Understand principles of composing and rhetoric, especially the ways they function across different composing spaces; 2) Compose for three spaces—print, screen, and network; 3) Edit and revise appropriately the texts created in each space; 4) Understand the ways technologies build upon their predecessors as well as inform the composing and circulation of texts.

To accomplish these goals, we'll engage with multiple kinds of texts: we’ll read some, write some, talk about some, and create remediated forms of some. As there are multiple career paths for an EWM major, this course is designed specifically to introduce you to professional contexts you may encounter after leaving Florida State.