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Professional Writing — Introduction to the Course (ENC 2251)

Log on to Canvas and select Syllabus to review the university and course policies for this course! Course Projects Students complete two major modules. The Language of Work: Style, Rhetoric, and Visual Design in Professional Communication The first course module, The Language of Work: Style, Rhetoric, and Visual Design in Professional Communication, builds the communicative ...

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Professional Writing – ENC 3250 (Spring 2025)

See Canvas for instructor details, university policies, and grading polices. Course Goals – Student Learning Outcomes By the end of ENC 3250: Professional Writing, students will be able to: Participation Assignments Typically, participation assignments are drafts or pieces of larger projects — also known as creative challenges. Sometimes, though, they are reading quizzes or exercises ...

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Writing with AI – Syllabus (ENC 3370 – Fall 2024)

Exigency – The Affordances & Constraints of Superintelligence The rapid progression of generative artificial intelligence raises profound questions about the future of human agency, creativity, authorship, copyright, intellectual property, and the role of writing in learning and knowledge production. In 2022 Anderson and Rainie, in partnership with the Pew Research Center, surveyed 540 “technology innovators, ...

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Spring 2024 – Professional Writing

Draft Date: 4/10 Spring 2024, ENC 3250 – Professional Writing, Credit Hours: 3, Department of EnglishTR 12:30pm-1:45pm @ BSN 1400 1Acknowledgments: Contract Grading – UnGrading Resources Instructor Information Joseph M. Moxley, Professor of English, He/Him/HisOffice: CPR 383, College of Arts & SciencesOffice Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3 p.m. and by appointment. Please email me when ...

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Research Methods – Introduction to the Course

Log on to Canvas and select Syllabus to review the university and course policies for this course! Major Course Projects Students complete five creative challenges: (For details on these assignments, see Research Methods — Summary of Course Projects – ENC 3266.) Metacognitive Report If you use GenAI to complete any deliverable, you must submit a Metacognitive ...

Fall 2022 – Professional Writing Course Schedule

Course Syllabus | Google Docs Tutorial | GEA1 | GEA2 Summary Professional writing is an undergraduate course on workplace writing and oral communication. This course serves sophomore and junior-level undergraduate students. It fulfills the University’s general-education requirement for an emphasis on collaboration, a high-impact practice. Acknowledgements My thanks to Julie Staggers for helping me develop this ...

Rhetoric & Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the schedule for Professional Writing, Spring 2021, an undergraduate course on business writing. The schedule is divided into four major modules: The Business Model Canvas The first module involves a three-week introduction to the nine core business elements that constitute the BMC (Business Model Canvas). The Customer Discovery Process, Design Thinking, Venture Design ...

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At Writing Commons, we value the intellectual work of teachers, academic inquiry, and academic freedom. We understand many faculty in the U.S. are required by their institutions to develop their classes in course management systems such as Blackboard or Canvas. And, we recognize there are some advantages to course management tools. However, these systems undermine ...

Workplace Writing

Workplace Writing refers to the texts and composing processes employees produce in workplace contexts a syllabus, a course of study, a curriculum, commonly required of undergraduate students in the U.S. higher education system a style of writing that focuses on concision, design, and visual language: Technical Writing Prose Style* *Alternative Titles: Workplace Writing may also ...