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ENC 1102

Argument and Persuasion: Invoking the Professional Voice
Summer 2005

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ENC 1102 focuses on the essential stylistics of writing clearly and efficiently within the framework of argumentative research writing. Students in ENC 1102 will learn how to formulate a coherent thesis and defend it logically with evidence drawn from research in their various fields. They will also learn how to work through the stages of planning, research, organizing, and revising their writing.

ENC 1102 introduces students to techniques and forms of argument in a broad range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, business, and natural sciences. This course encourages students to investigate the relationship between writing and knowledge, and to discover how writing can create, rather than merely transmit, knowledge. Class lectures and discussions will reveal the complementary relationship between writing and research and demonstrate how persuasive techniques and genres vary from discipline to discipline. Students will learn how writing effectively and correctly in their fields will help to integrate them as professionals into their “knowledge communities.”