Resources for Instructors
UWP
Instructor's Guide
UWP Courses: Goals, Outcomes, Philosophy
The University Writing Program administers ENC 1101, Introduction to
College Writing, ENC 1102, Introduction to Argument and Persuasion, and
ENC 3254, Professional Communication for Engineers.
Generally stated, these courses are taught with a keen awareness
that our students have diverse academic goals and that one's academic
discipline helps to define the style of writing that will be useful and
productive for the student later in his or her work. In composition
theory, this is sometimes referred to as the effect of "writing
communities."
Ideally, we would like to gather students who are part of a cohesive
writing community so that we can teach them in the context of
well-defined situations and so that we can ask students to apply what
we teach to real-world documents. For example, you might ask a group of
pre-law students to write a legal brief or a group of anthropology
majors to write an ethnographic research report. Professional
Communication for Engineers is one such course. Many more
discipline-specific courses are taught at
UF through the Dial Center for
Written and Oral Communication.
Of course, most first-year students have not yet joined a cohesive
writing community, so first-year writing courses have to address those
issues where academic disciplines overlap. Both ENC 1101 and ENC 1102
do just that by focusing on argument. ENC 1101 requires that students
write in various argumentative modes applicable to a broad range of
fields: definition, causal analysis, rebuttal argument, proposal
argument. ENC 1102 requires that students employee those strategies in
a research paper focusing on a topic in their academic
discipline.
