Of these emblems of modernity, none has been epitomized and transcended the period of its initial experience more than cinema. Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz Welcome to Writing About Film and Modernism . ENC 1145 is a composition course in which you study how texts work and employ similar conventions in your own academic and public writing. Each section of the course will provide opportunities for you to learn how to introduce a topic or issue, articulate a thesis, support and develop a thesis and subordinate claims, work with secondary sources, and organize an argument. The course will then move on to consider major issues foregrounded in discussions of Modernism including primitivism, mechanization, politics and propaganda, nationalism, commodification, labor, etc.
Texts are lazy machineries that ask someone to do part of their job.
Umberto Eco Goals . Primarily, this will course teach you how to develop and write a college level argumentative essay that relies upon close analysis of texts and cinema to make their points. Achievement of Goals . Before writing carefully about cinema and other texts, you must first view films carefully and read carefully. The opening section of the course therefore concentrates on sharpening your viewing skills, which will, in turn, sharpen your apprehension of visually phrased ideas.