Courses Taught – Anicca Cox

Michigan State University:

Image shows a river in autumn with reflections of trees. — Photo of Red Cedar River in Fall, reflections and trees

First year writing

Course introduces students to the rhetorical, flexible, powerful nature of writing, and asks them to begin to anticipate how to learn, compose and respond to and with writing. Students are encouraged to consider how to use what they know, recognize what they don’t, and find ways to adapt to new writing situations. The central frame for this work takes place through the following:

INQUIRY: a recursive process of posing, following, and answering questions
DISCOVERY: making new knowledge through the inquiry process
COMMUNICATION: purposeful engagement of authors through inquiry and discovery

Composition Studies (Graduate Seminar)

This course was co-taught with my advisor, Dr. Dawn Opel. Our syllabus described the course as follows:

What theories inform my own teaching of writing? What issues in composition studies interest me? What contemporary conversations might I enter, and in what venues might I publish my own research in composition studies?

This course is designed to position you and your research and teaching interests into current conversations in composition studies. In order to do this, you need to know the lay of the land. This course is designed to accomplish this—themed each week with a contemporary issue; but we will also explore the complex and multiple histories, theories, and research methods that shape that issue. This course is designed to be writing process-focused, placing you and your exploration within the context of a scholarly life as an academic in the field of composition studies today. You’ll have a variety of shorter assignments that are timely, relevant to contemporary conversations in the field, and (depending on your zeal for feedback and revision) suitable for future publication.

Introduction to Professional Writing

This course is the introductory course to the major, “Professional and Public Writing.” The course focused on public, workplace, and community engaged approaches to professional writing through rhetorical awareness, multi-modal composing and primary research.

Learning outcomes for the course:

Understand and apply the concept of rhetoric to workplace situations and the composing practices required within them.
Better understand the way in which composing and writing is a reflection of values of a community, and be able to enact that reflection in your own writing.
Begin developing the aptitude and skills of a professional learner and writer, especially in terms of working with and for others.
Compose texts that are cohesive and compelling for their intended audiences.
Develop and apply sophisticated research practices

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth