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Forsa  \nRoger Williams University  \nWhy are technical writing and literature courses in the same department? Students often ask me this question during the first few meetings of my technical and professional communication (TPC) courses. Many students also share that TPC is new to them. They are more familiar with high school literature courses and first-year composition courses. And given these experiences, they are often unsure about why TPC is in an English department that studies Shakespeare or research essays. I address students’ unfamiliarity with TPC as I guide them to define key concepts, examine sample documents, and discuss the types of writing they will do at internshipsand future jobs. Often, students’ attitudes toward studying English and writing changes quickly. They show newfound excitement as they discover connections between English courses, business or STEM courses, and internships. Many share that they would have benefitted from taking this type of course earlier in their studies. This experience led me to consider an approach that emphasizes these connections earlier in students’ academic careers with a first-year writing course (or equivalent early-career course) that studies TPC alongside literature.  \nThis TPC-literature course provides students with the opportunity to study diverse texts that are from different genres and that are focused on different audiences. This approach (1) helps clear up inaccuracies about writing’s limited scope,(2) emphasizes key “threshold  \nconcepts” integral to the writing field such as the understanding that writing is rhetorical, 1 (3)  \nintroduces students to writing as a “subject of study,”2 (4) and may spark students’ interest in TPC and writing studies more generally.  \nIn this course, students read and write about medical documents, legal contracts, business letters, maps, and public reports in addition to poems and short stories. Students work to understand how and why texts are produced with special attention to genre and audience. The course has four units: (1) an introduction unit that sets up key concepts related to studying literature and TPC,(2) a literature-focused unit,(3) a TPC-focused unit, and (4) a capstone reflection unit that encourages students to consider the transfer of knowledge to other contexts. The course is an introduction that explores ideas and opportunities in English departments.3 It isan introductory course that does not replace a dedicated TPC course or literary analysis course. Instead, it highlights key concepts from different parts of English studies and, as a writing course, provides students with practice writing about these concepts.  \nTeaching Threshold Concepts  \nThis approach provides a practical way to meet some recommendations from composition and writing studies scholars about diversifying the texts students read, analyze, and write about in first-year composition (FYC) courses. This approach can help students better understand writing’s rhetorical nature and status as a subject of study while beginning to think about transfer, especially transfer to contexts outside of the writing classroom. As such it is informed by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle’s “threshold concepts” for writing studies outlined in Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies.  \nWardle and Adler-Kassner make a compelling case that writing should be a subject of study so that students can understand writing in new ways, or “change their conceptions of what writing is and their practices around writing that extend from those conceptions”(16). My TPCliterature approach challenges students to understand that writing takes place in many forms. Specifically, it introduces students to TPC, a key part of writing studies and many writing programs. 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