UCF's WAC Fellows Program

Cool stuff...WAC Fellows.

For Fall 2013

379 for fall:

Unit 1: Intro to Rhetoric (OWL)
Unit 2: Genre Theory
Unit 3: Genre Analysis

Notes During Chris' 2013 Talk

The problem is that we are fixing the problem after the fact...faculty spend years assigning and grading writing, having been given very little instruction, if any, in this. Where do they look for models--they look to what they experienced. Was what they experienced pedagogically effective? Maybe.

So, we are trying to change someone's practice...not give them a practice. Much easier to give them this stuff when they are just starting out. Much less to let go of.

What is the process of change? Letting go...? We spend a good deal of time and energy trying to let people to let go of things...then we can give them something new or to replace that thing.

Research on how long people can listen to a lecture?

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An Ethic of Service in Composition and Rhetoric

Research, teaching, and service—the traditional tripartite division of academic work. The kind of institution and the nature of institutional priorities have some bearing on the arrangement of the first two parts, but service always comes last. From our shared perspective as faculty members and administrators in writing studies, though, the nature of service is both more meaningful and more complicated than this seemingly straightforward arrangement would suggest. For us, service is simultaneously an integral part of the teaching and research that we do (which, we should note, are also virtually inseparable) and a problematic label that is often attached to many of the courses that we teach, especially at the first-year level...more.

750 Words

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Writing Textbook

Writing Spaces Open Textbook

Books & Ideas for Next Time

Recommendations from Meredith Taylor:

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs., and Thomas R. Burkholder. Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub, 1997.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs., and Susan Schultz. Huxman. The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking, and Writing Critically. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA, USA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.

Two other ideas:

1. Use OWL to introduce rhetoric and just have the students write a ton of papers, evaluations, proposals, classical arguments, etc. 

2. Focus the course on rhetorical genre theory.