ENC 4212 - Fall 2025 - Howell

This course will help you take your editing skills to the next level, explicitly focusing on improving another's writing. It seeks to develop the skills of synthesizing another's ideas and data, structuring and clarifying his or her argument, and ordering coherently any multi-part exposition. It is primarily practical in orientation, covering proofreading, grammar, spelling, fact checking, and line-editing. We consider carefully authorial goals and audience needs and how these should influence the editing process. The course aims to prepare students for the elementary practice of textual production between draft stage and final publication. This course is primarily “workshop” in orientation—we do a lot of work in class, and we often check our work in class, too. Regular course attendance, then, is vital to learning and success.