ENC 3416 - FALL 2026 - MCELROY

ENC 3146 (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 (physical), digital (screen), and network (online);

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.

Your work in this course will culminate in a digital portfolio that will highlight the texts you’ve created throughout the semester.