Week 1 Introduction

Please Check on the Course Schedule to see what is due this week.

For our first week, we're going to begin introducing some of the main concepts that will guide the rest of your work in the course this semester. You'll want to begin by reviewing all of the Course Expectations module content, which includes things like our syllabus, the schedule for the semester, and how to download the necessary software to complete your work. This content should act as an introduction to ENC 1102 and will help you orient yourself to the course before progressing through the Week 1 module.

After reading all of the course introduction content, you'll see that each week has been given a "Module" on the home page. There you will find all of the content you need to complete your work for the week, beginning with a weekly introduction page like the one you're reading right now. These pages will include a brief overview of some of the goals for the week as well as a list of all of your due dates, which will be taken directly from our Course Schedule.

For Week 1, we will be focusing on easing into ENC 1102 by talking through what research will look like this semester. In particular, we'll begin exploring what it means to do Writing Studies research, which will be a bit different from other types of research you may have done in past courses here at UCF or back in high school.

Week 1 Objectives

For this week, we have a few main objectives:

Understand the goals of ENC 1102
Consider the difference between academic "research" and "inquiry"
Understand what researching writing looks like, and how this differs from other types of research
Learn about ePortfolios and the ENC 1102 course outcomes

Week 1 Outcomes

Though all of the outcomes for this course for this course come together, some weeks will help you meet certain outcomes more effectively than other weeks. Please be sure to continually look back at the outcomes as outlined on the Department of Writing and Rhetoric's webpage for this class.

Since we are defining "inquiry," this week, start to think about what inquiry means for Outcome 2: "Students will engage in a recursive, inquiry-based writing and research process that is meaningful for a specific community."