For future students of ENC-1143

1. A Guide to ENC-1143:
For Future Students
By Emily Libhart
4/19/2022
Note: This is an audio-guided presentation. Click the audio symbol
on each slide to hear.

2. Starting Off, ENC-1143:
• Prepares students for upper-level English courses
• Critically read and analyze text
• Projects
• Discussions
• Peer Reviews
• Bibliographies
• APA formatting
• Assigned Readings

3. Module 1: Academic Writing
• Academic Discourse
• A kind of identity that gives something meaning in social contexts (Scott, 2014). In
academia, it is the way things are happening or talked about within a certain subject.
• Content Reading
• Identifying the topic and knowledge presented, what information is the author relaying
and how?
• Rhetorical Reading
• How and why is the author writing about this? Did they use ethos, logos, pathos? What
makes them a credible source?
• Format Reading
• What does the text look like and how is is structured. Why did the author choose this
format?
• Method Reading
• How did the author conduct research? What are the motivations behind this text? How
was the experiment conducted?

4. Discourse Analysis
Complete Complete discourse analysis template
Select Select an artifact
Identify Identify a subdiscourse
Create Create a LinkedIn account, make connections within field
Analyze Analyze a discourse community
Read Read the discourse for content, format, method, and rhetoric

5. Module 2: Evidence-Based Writing
 “Become competent in the basic research skills that a college student will
encounter in other coursework” (Beaudrie 2022)
 Identify a research topic within your subdiscourse
 Research question
 Method
 APA formatting (professionals ,researchers, sciences, psychology, etc.)
 Writing about change
 Using library databases for two scholarly sources
 Annotated Bibliography (keywords, summary, evidence usage, supports
research question)

6. Taxonomy of Evidence Presentation
Locate scholarly source
Relating to writing about change topic
At least 13 slides
Identify an example for each cateogory of evidence
What type of evidence is it?

7. Module 3: Synthesis Writing
 Continue researching your subdiscourse
 Relating to change
 ”contextualize, summarize, and synthesize” (Beaudrie 2021)
 Refine your research plan
 Translate technical discussions by summarizing, synthesizing, and analyzing
 To synthesize is to breakdown each part to analyze the whole
 Academic Arguments = Thesis
 Claims and reasons support the argument

8. Literature Review
Clearly support your thesis statement
Title page
Introduction- argumentative thesis, research plan, define terms, topic related to
change
Body Paragraphs- cite three scholarly sources, compare/contrast overarching
themes, introduce data and statistics
Conclusion- restate thesis, draw logical conclusions, calls for further research and
unanswered questions
Works Cited- APA
Peer Review

9. Module 4: Reflective Writing
 Self-evaluate
 How did change impact your area of study?
 Enhance skills learned previously
 Multimodality- describes a text by incorporating other forms (audio, spatial,
visual, gestural, linguistic)
 Communicate a Rhetorical Goal- inform the reader, instruct, persuade
 Genre (song, infographic, PowerPoint)
 Medium (Spotify, Slideshare, Zoom)

10. Reflection Project
Multimodal Project
Academic discourse, evidence-based
writing, synthesis writing, writing about
change
Two methods of communication
For future ENC1143 students
Genre- Type of text
Medium- Where it is distributed
Reflection Essay
Reflect on self
Summarize project
Analyze personal goals