A short infographic on what to prepare for in a typical ENC 1143 course

1. ENC 1143
LITERARY REVIEW
ACADEMIC WRITING
REFLECTIVE WRITING
HOW DOES THIS
CLASS HELP YOU?
HOW TO SUCCEED IN
What you need to know about
the class and tips on how to do
well
Throughout ENC 1143 students will
have to understand and utilize a
few different writing styles for
both their discussion posts and
writing projects. It is crucial to get
a grasp on these various writing
styles because it's likely that you'll
struggle with many of the
assignments if you don't
THE
WRITING
STYLES
A literature review is a document that is to scrutinize a set of
sources in order to present a logical thesis to an audience
that details what is currently known about a given topic. The
best way to go about the assignment is to first find a
research topic and question that will have plenty of credible
sources about it. This should be done first because the
having a solid understanding on what the review will be
covering and what it is answering. The sources should be
recent so that all the information is relevant and up to date.
Academic writing is a form of non-fiction writing with the
main goal of helping a reader understand a topic better.
This form of writing is rather concise and is primarily for
reports or research papers, both of which are used quite
often in the course. Academic writing needs to be backed
up by evidence from sources and written in a simple,
understandable language. The method I used to help me
with this style was to structure the writing around the
evidence I gathered.
Reflective writing is another kind of analytical writing, but it is far
more personal than the other forms used in the course because
this style is focused upon one's reflective thinking on certain
subjects. In this form, you primarily will be looking back on
certain events and analyzing the event with the purpose of
finding the main idea. Reflective writing sets itself apart from.
Reflective writing is a rather important writing style to learn for
the course and real life because it's a great way for both writer
and audience to learn from previous events and situations.
ENC 1143 can teach and refine some rather useful skills for
one's future in the world. This class mainly will help with
learning how to read certain sources in a more analytical and
rhetorical manner and how to write a document reflecting or
inspecting the sources that were used. The skills taught could
be used in a variety of careers. The skills on how to write a
research paper could be used for scientists working on an
experiment and the rhetorical writing could be useful for
someone working in an ad agency, trying to convince the
masses to do something.

2. Academic discorse:
Key
Key
concepts
concepts
Proper source citation methods:
Different ways to read sources
Academic discourse is a process used to convey one's
thoughts and influence the thoughts of others on topics
ke world knowledge and social values. A common form of
academic discourse is in textbooks or research papers.
The two major methods to cite your sources in ENC 1143 is
MLA and APA. Before you start citing sources, you need to
figure out which citing method you will need to use for the
assignment since the MLA citation method is mainly used for
more literary and humanitarian works while APA is used for
scientific or technical works.
The expected methods of reading for ENC 1143 are content
reading and rhetorical reading. The benefits of content reading is
that it will help one generally understand the writer's message and
helps with find grammatical errors when reviewing someone's work.
Rhetorical reading is more for analyzing an author's work, seeing
how smaller parts of the piece fits with the bigger picture trying to
be portrayed. Rhetorical writing is like scrutinizing the context of
the text, thinking about who they were writing for, and the language
they use to convey their message. This kind of reading is more for
reading multiple sources to fit into a single, main idea.
Use of different types of evidence
In ENC 1143, a variety of topics will be
covered throughout the course. Many
are quite crucial to understand as they
will be needed for nearly all class
discussions and papers. These topics
range from literary concepts like
academic discourse to how to analyze
sources for particular information.
Facts: A proven truth. Ex: "Frogs are amphibians"
Examples: Instances that highlight a phenomenon. Ex: Showing a
baking soda volcano to demonstrate a chemical reaction.
Anecdotes: A personal story to help demonstrate information from
topic. Ex: a burn victim talking about their recovery story
Scenarios: Hypothetical situations to help understand the topic. Ex:
Thinking best and worst results of an event that hasn't happened yet.
Authorities: Information verified by an expert on the topic. Ex: Getting
a quote from a historian to help explain the fall of Rome.
Statistics: Numerical data from credible sources, example: average
data from a sample study. Ex: A ted talk on mental health by known
psychologist
Case studies: A research report on a specific phenomenon. Ex: A
specific study following the development of a set a twins in differing
environments.
Visuals: An illustration to represent information. Ex: A graph or chart to
show numerical data.
texts: Quoted or summarized information from another source. Ex:
Taking an excerpt from an article to support a claim.

3. C R E A T I N G A
R E A S A R C H P L A N
It is crucial to create a reserach plan when doing any of
the major projects in ENC 1143. Research plans help
give structure to the student's ideas that are being used
in the assignment and it also helps with keeping
students from straying away from its project's purpose.
The first thing to do when making a research plan is to lay out what
your research topic and research question is. When thinking about
a research topic, it needs to narrow rather than broad. This is
because broad topics can lead to abundance of sources that may
not fit the project as well as others. The best way to narrow down a
topic is to think about things like who is going to be the audience
or what the question is looking to solve. For the research question,
the question also needs to be specific, so it only will answer
something regarding the research topic. The question should also
be complex so that it can start a debate rather than just stating a
fact and the language should also be simple to understand for
whoever the audience is for the assignment.
How to create a research plan for the
projects?
Methods
Topic and Question
Next one will need to do is think about what method they are going to
use to research their topic and question. Some of the methods are
observational, experimental, and compiled. The observational method
is about gathering data through observing behavior or activity of what
is being researched. This is done usually by watching a process or
giving out a survey. The experimental method is done by taking active
intervention to gather the data via experiments. Experimental is done
typically with an experiment or a test. The compiled, or derived,
method is done by taking pieces of existing data from previous
experiments and using them to form new data. This would be like
using population data of a certain species to create a population
density data point.
Finding sources
In ENC 1143, all sources used need to be recent, at least from the
last ten years, and reliable with their authority over subject clearly
presented to the reader. The sources need to be up to date
because there is a possibility that has been new findings that
disprove the older ones, thus making that sources data invalid. The
sources also need to have clear authority because readers are
more likely to believe data if it comes from an expert in that
subject over someone that isn't