ENC 3021 Summer 2024 - Bond

ENC 3021 is one of three core courses for the Editing, Writing, and Media (EWM) track, and as such, the course works to provide a foundation for the major. Studying the history of rhetoric provides students with foundational rhetorical principles and building blocks, crucial for writers, editors, and evolving scholars. This course introduces students to key concepts in the study of rhetoric; to frameworks useful for the analysis of texts, events, communication, and other phenomena; and to the principles of rhetoric in contexts across media and cultures.

Rhetoric has many definitions. Dr. Keith Lloyd once defined rhetoric as “How we say what we say.” Among the many ways that the concept can be defined, cultures and people have many ways of knowledging where rhetorical practices can be seen. “Rhetoricity,” Dr. Tarez Graban said, “is how something is historically made actual.” Dr. James Crosswhite wrote, “Rhetoric is a form of human transcendence, a way we open ourselves to the influence of what is beyond ourselves and become receptive, a way we participate in a larger world and become open to the lives of others, a way we learn and change” (Deep Rhetoric 17). Among exploring the historical and methodological components, this course emphasizes rhetorical difference, depth, symbols, and change.