at Florida State University

Florida State University’s English Department has a wealth of programs and activities to foster excellence in writing. Programs in Creative Writing and in Rhetoric and Composition comprise significant portions of the department’s curriculum.

Specialized studies in each of these areas are available to both graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, undergraduates who need to satisfy FSU’s writing requirement before they graduate will want to acquaint themselves with the pages dedicated to the First-Year Composition Program. Graduate and prospective graduate students who are interested in teaching one of the first-year composition classes should see the Information for Teachers (TAs).

What to Expect in ENC1102

Dr. Dan Melzer

Differences between ENC1101 and ENC1102

In ENC1102 you will be building on the skills you learned in ENC1101. In ENC1101 you focused on personal writing; on exploring your own personal experience and point of view through writing. In ENC1102 your experiences and opinions are still important, but now you will also explore the opinions of other authors. You will read from texts that have diverse viewpoints and enter into a conversation with these texts. You will also explore your own reading process, and learn techniques to become both a better writer and reader. This is not a class in literary analysis, but in ENC1102 you will explore connections between reading and writing. Here's what some former ENC1102 students had to say about the reading assignments:

Preface
Dustin Anderson
The 2005-2006 edition of Our Own Words offers students at Florida State University a resource for their work in First-Year Writing (FYW). It contains advice from teachers and former students on ways to succeed in FYW courses, as well as showcases some of the best essays from First-Year Writing courses. All of the student-authored writing come from the 2005-2006 submissions for the English Department's James A. McCrimmon Award.
The English Department presents the annual McCrimmon award to the author of the top piece of writing written in a FYW class during the preceding year. Every teacher is encouraged to submit one piece of writing from his or her FYW classes, but allowed only one paper per class. From the submissions, a committee of Teaching Assistants selects the outstanding piece of writing for the year through a blind review process.