ENGLI 1101: Composition 1 || IAI C1 900
WRITING, RHETORIC, & the ART of PERSUASION
SECTION 033 || Fall 2023 || Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30a - 10:45a || BIC 3540
image credit: The School of Athens by Raphael (color altered)
SECTION 033 || Fall 2023 || Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30a - 10:45a || BIC 3540
image credit: The School of Athens by Raphael (color altered)
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Rm. 2H05F | henningsent@gafe.cod.edu
FALL 2023 OFFICE HOURS: MW 9-11, TR 12-2
I am *always* willing to meet outside of these hours, so drop me a line whenever you'd like to chat.
ABOUT ME: I have been a COD professor since 2014 and teach a variety of composition & literature courses. Prior to that, I taught at UIC, Loyola, Triton, and Shoreline Community College (outside of Seattle). I earned a doctorate degree in transnational literary studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I explored the connections between the Anglophone Caribbean and American culture during the World War II era. I received my undergrad degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have 3 kids, play hockey sometimes, and tend to be a total dork.
Course Catalog Description: Introduces key concepts in rhetoric and writing, including situation and context, audience, genre, purpose, and persuasion. Students apply these concepts in writing projects that demonstrate how reading and writing are embedded in multi-faceted academic, personal, social, political, and/or professional purposes. These writing projects unfold through a deliberate process of inquiry, feedback, and revision.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
Practice writing as a process involving inquiry and invention, composing, response from instructor and peers, revision, and editing according to appropriate conventions
Analyze rhetorical situations as they relate to discourse communities
Identify particular audiences and appropriate rhetorical moves, strategies, and/or responses
Demonstrate engagement with intellectually complex writing situations, accounting for multiple perspectives via readings, visual media, and other texts
Create texts, including essays, in print and/or digital formats that respond to varied rhetorical situations
Use suitable methods of citation
Produce reflective writing for self-assessment
FALL 2023
This class will teach the basics of writing in context through a rhetorical lens. We will explore the various circumstances in which writing is used as a tool for communication, persuasion, and representation. We will learn about writerly conventions such as context, language, genre, audience, research, and rhetoric; we will compose a variety of texts, many of which will have consequences beyond that of the classroom; we will work on improving sentence structure, persuasion, design & textual organization, and many other aspects of your written work. In sum, through classroom discussions, writing assignments, and your own interests & curiosity, this class promises to make you a better writer, reader, and thinker.