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Spring 2025 – Professional Writing – ENC 3250

Course Sandbox Instructor Information Joseph M. Moxley, Professor of English, He/Him/Hismox@usf.edu Office Hours Please email me when you have questions. I’ll typically respond pretty quickly. If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, pls send me a 2nd email. I’m generally available via Teams throughout the workday, especially the afternoons. Don’t hesitate to reach ...

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Writing with AI – Syllabus (ENC 3370)

Exigency – The Affordances & Constraints of Superintelligence The rapid progression of generative artificial intelligence raises profound questions about the future of human agency, creativity, authorship, copyright, intellectual property, and the role of writing in learning and knowledge production. In 2022 Anderson and Rainie, in partnership with the Pew Research Center, surveyed 540 “technology innovators, ...

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Spring 2024 – Professional Writing

Draft Date: 4/10 Spring 2024, ENC 3250 – Professional Writing, Credit Hours: 3, Department of EnglishTR 12:30pm-1:45pm @ BSN 1400 1Acknowledgments: Contract Grading – UnGrading Resources Instructor Information Joseph M. Moxley, Professor of English, He/Him/HisOffice: CPR 383, College of Arts & SciencesOffice Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3 p.m. and by appointment. Please email me when ...

Fall 2022 – Professional Writing Course Schedule

Course Syllabus | Google Docs Tutorial | GEA1 | GEA2 Summary Professional writing is an undergraduate course on workplace writing and oral communication. This course serves sophomore and junior-level undergraduate students. It fulfills the University’s general-education requirement for an emphasis on collaboration, a high-impact practice. Acknowledgements My thanks to Julie Staggers for helping me develop this ...

Rhetoric & Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the schedule for Professional Writing, Spring 2021, an undergraduate course on business writing. The schedule is divided into four major modules: The Business Model Canvas The first module involves a three-week introduction to the nine core business elements that constitute the BMC (Business Model Canvas). The Customer Discovery Process, Design Thinking, Venture Design ...

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At Writing Commons, we value the intellectual work of teachers, academic inquiry, and academic freedom. We understand many faculty in the U.S. are required by their institutions to develop their classes in course management systems such as Blackboard or Canvas. And, we recognize there are some advantages to course management tools. However, these systems undermine ...

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Fake News: An Undergraduate Composition Course

Fake News is a themed undergraduate English composition course on research writing. This course aims to help students develop an understanding and practice of empathetic information literacy—a method for sorting out truths and falsehoods while taking into account both intellect and affect, thoughts and feelings. This annotated syllabus presents assignment instructions, teaching notes, and unit ...