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Part of the Writing and Rhetoric Program, the first-year writing sequence teaches rhetorical concepts, skills, and strategies to help students communicate effectively both in and beyond the academy. Our first-year courses follow outcome guidelines adopted by the National Council of Writing Program Administrators. Click here for a complete list of national outcomes.

Courses

ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 fulfill half the Core Curriculum Gordon Rule writing requirement. To earn credit for these courses, students must earn a C or better.

ENC 1101

ENC 1101 is designed to deepen your understanding of language and enhance your writing skills. You'll become more aware of your own language use and the rhetorical choices you make, gaining the vocabulary to articulate these choices effectively.

Throughout the course, you’ll engage with professional texts on a variety of topics, including language, literacy, artificial intelligence and writing, and learning processes. These readings will provide a rich foundation for you to synthesize ideas and develop your own perspectives. As you explore these themes, you’ll reflect on and refine your own writing process and voice.

Through this course, you’ll become a more confident writer, equipped with the tools to critically analyze and skillfully employ rhetoric in your work.

  • ENC 1101 Course Outcomes

    By the end of ENC 1101, students will:

    Discuss foundational concepts of writing, rhetoric, linguistic diversity, and expectations of 21st century literacy

    1. Define and explain foundational concepts such as rhetoric, purpose, genre, audience, writing processes, and metacognition
    2. Synthesize different perspectives articulated in course readings
    3. Identify strategic rhetorical and stylistic techniques that meet the needs of various audiences, including those in multilingual and diverse linguistic contexts

    Describe personal writing practices, processes, and strategies; and identify strengths and areas for growth

    1. Develop effective strategies for completing a writing task
    2. Exhibit reflective and metacognitive thinking strategies
    3. Develop effective invention, composing, and revision processes
    4. Identify personal areas for growth in writing, thinking, and learning

    Produce writing that responds and adapts effectively to specific rhetorical situations

    1. Choose appropriate genre and audience
    2. Demonstrate awareness and use of strategic rhetorical and stylistic techniques
    3. Produce a written product with content that fulfills its purpose

ENC 1102

In ENC 1102, you’ll develop your writing skills and gain a more critical understanding of how to find and critically read research that you will put into action through writing. You will be able to choose a topic to explore, and that topic, or variations on it, will be the subject of your writing and research for most of the semester. This means that you can make the bulk of your work in this course be about something that is truly interesting and engaging to you.

By successfully completing this course, you will gain a variety of practical skills that you will use in other classes at FIU as well as your life beyond academics. These skills include drafting interesting research questions, finding and evaluating sources of information, effectively communicating with an audience, and crafting writing that responds to the demands of a specific rhetorical situation.

These skills will help you in future classes and in your career. Your professors and employers will expect that you can do research and generate ideas and support them, as well as present your research findings in a variety of contexts, which is why this is a required course. Reading critically, asking good questions, and broadening your perspective will also help you to be a more informed and empowered person.

  • ENC 1102 Course Outcomes

    By the end of ENC 1102, students will:

    Produce research-based writing that responds and adapts effectively to specific rhetorical situations

    1. Compose rhetorically effective media for different audiences
    2. Demonstrate awareness and use of strategic rhetorical and stylistic techniques often within multilingual and diverse linguistic contexts
    3. Package information for an outside audience
    4. Illustrate competence in multimodal/digital researched writing that aligns with 21st century literacies

    Illustrate understanding of responsible rhetorical research and methodologies

    1. Develop critical knowledge of basic research methods.
    2. Give credit to the ideas of others through attribution and formal conventions
    3. Effectively evaluate source reliability and validity for rhetorical context (select sources that best meets an information need, based on the audience, context, and purpose of various formats)
    4. Understand research as a recursive, inquiry-based process

    Apply foundational concepts of writing and rhetoric to the research process 

    1. Exhibit reflective and metacognitive thinking strategies
    2. Develop and use effective invention, composing, and revision processes
    3. Demonstrate the ability to engage in critical reading as part of a dialogue within a community of readers