Workplace Writing 3355 Face-to-Face/Partial Hybrid Course (University of Texas at El Paso)
Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to various scenarios that reflect real-life situations, formats and conventions of writing within business and professional contexts. The scenarios, formats, conventions and contexts encompass local and global communities. The readings, discussions and assignment s address a variety of workplace issues and scenarios. The textbook(s) and additional readings can be chosen by the instructor and the activities and assignments are supposed to reflect business and professional situations.
Technical and Business Writing 2311- Face-to-Face/Partial Hybrid Course (El Paso Community College)
Description: The goal of this course is to teach students how to choose and develop various styles, formats and conventions when creating a professional document. The instructor can choose the textbook and additional readings. The classroom activities and major assignments reflect real-life situations and scenarios within a discipline or a professional setting.
Research & Critical Writing 1312 – Hybrid Course (University of Texas at El Paso)
Description: The primary goal of English 1312 is to develop students’ critical thinking skills in order to facilitate effective communication in all educational, professional, and social contexts. This effective communication is based on an awareness of and appreciation for discourse communities as well as knowledge specific to subject matters, genres, rhetorical strategies, and writing processes. The class presents an approach to communication that helps students determine the most effective strategies, arrangements, and media to use in different rhetorical contexts (Compose). It teaches students a systematic approach for analyzing rhetorical situations and then producing a variety of documents and presentations while gaining more confidence and fluency in visual, oral, and written communication (Design). In addition, because communication is central to being an active and engaged member of society, the course also provides a space for informed advocacy (Advocate). English 1312 is taught as a hybrid class--with one face-to-face meeting for lecture and discussion, and the rest of the course utilizing Blackboard software and/or other online tools.
English Expository Writing 1311 Face-to-Face/Partial Hybrid Course (University of Texas at El Paso)
Description: The goal of English 1311 is to develop students’ critical thinking skills in order to facilitate effective communication in all educational, professional, and social contexts. This effective communication is based on an awareness of and appreciation for discourse communities as well as knowledge specific to subject matter, genre, rhetorical strategy, and writing process. English 1311 is designed to prepare students for the writing they will do throughout their university experience as well as in professional and civic environments. The course emphasizes the use of technology through a variety of assignments and activities.
English Composition 1301 Face-to-Face/Partial Hybrid Course (El Paso Community College)
Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to various research and writing methods, rhetorical choices in “texts,” various modes of writing, and to understand and practice the means of argumentation and persuasion. The main goal of this course is to build an atmosphere of learning where students can develop their critical thi9nking abilities within a constructive environment. Students will be encouraged to question and analyze what a “text” is and how it “performs,” such as how the reading and writing of a text acts within various contexts. Students are also required to learn how to utilize technology in presenting their research and writing. Students are taught how to use various web-based technologies, such as wikis, blogs and website building programs to collaborate and communicate with one another, as well as how to present their writing in a digital environment.