DRW Digital Archive

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• Memo about discrimination of women in faculty hiring.
  A memo to the president of the University of Texas at Austin, complaining about discrimination of women on the English Department faculty.
• English Department Meeting Minutes 10 May 1973
  Minutes of an English Department meeting where three topics were discussed: the bias against women in English Department hiring, the inclusion of courses focused exclusively on Black writers, the options for allowing students to test out of lower-division writing courses, especially E 314 and E 317.
• Malcolm Genet Letter Regarding 10 May 1973 English Faculty Minutes
  Genet writes to refute Edwin Bowden's comments on Black literature courses and the presence of Black literature in the UT English Department curriculum.
• Letter about Minutes to the 10 May 1973 English Department Minutes
  Professor Bowden writes to correct his use of the term "vogue" when discussing the addition of Black literature courses to the English Department Curriculum.
• Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Composition
  The report submitted in response to complaints about the quality of writing instruction at UT Austin.
• Minutes of Department of English Meeting 24 April 1975
  The minutes of the English Department meeting, where the report on composition was discussed.
• John Ruszkiewicz's 1992 Legal Pad
  A legal pad filled with notes about and a speech given at a Heritage Foundation seminar. At the end are notes on the formation of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition.
• "Dead White Malefactor" Correspondence
  John Ruszkiewicz corresponds with editors at Harcourt Brace publishers about his academic murder-mystery novel.
• Ruszkiewicz's notes preparing for Sept 1992 meeting about DRC formation
  Ruszkiewicz thinks about what the new division should do, how it should be structured, and how innovative it can be.
• Ruszkiewicz letter to Sledd 2 May 1991
  John Ruszkiewicz writes to James Sledd to share articles relevant to the RHE 306 controversy.
• Composition Theory in Practice Banner
• The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing
  Hairston, Maxine. "The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing." _College Composition and Communication_ 33.1 (February 1982): 76-88. Hairston describes many of the important change in composition teaching and scholarship--including process pedagogy--as a revolution.
• The Goals of National Writing Programs as Perceived by a Survey of National Sample of Writing Program Directors and Teachers
  A resume of one of the reports generated by the research team that received a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education.
• A National Survey of College and University Writing Teachers, Technical Report No. 4
  One of the reports generated by the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education grant given to faculty at UT Austin.
• Stanley Meacham's account of the E 306 controversy
  At the end of an autobiographical essay, Meacham gives his own account of the Writing about Difference controversy.
• Hartzog letter to Meacham regarding E 306 article
  Hartzog writes Meacham asking him to review portions of her article on the E 306 Writing about Difference debate.
• Letter about the English Writing Program
  Dean Stanley Werbow writes to UT President Lorene Rodgers to report that the English writing program is strong but in need of some improvements. Werbow specifically mentions the need for a writing center and an upper-division, discipline specific course in writing.
• Letter requesting funding for _Written Communication_
  Witte writes associate dean John Weinstock, requesting funding to assist in the creation of a new journal: Written Communication.
• Academic Danger Lurks in TA Measure
  Kinneavy, James. "Academic Danger Lurks in TA Measure." Daily Texan, 2 March 1977, p. 5. Kinneavy writes to say that the house bill limiting university reliance on teaching assistance will affect instruction at UT. He focuses on the bill's cost (requiring more faculty hiring) and its damage to the graduate program in English.
• Reading and Writing Academic Prose
  A proposal for a graduate course in the rhetoric concentration at UT Austin.
• Meeting about Course Offerings for Next Year
  Kinneavy writes to the other graduate faculty at UT, sending them a list of all graduate courses taught 1986-1989
• Graduate Course Proposals, 1989-1990
  Kinneavy writes the other members of the graduate faculty to recount the decisions made by their committee regarding future course offerings. A list of future courses is presented, including courses by Hairston, Kinneavy, Ruszkiewicz, Slatin, Faigley, Brodkey, Bump, Harris and Barnouw.
• Productions in Rhetoric: Scholarly Writing in the Humanities
  A proposed syllabus for the graduate concentration in rhetoric at UT Austin.
• Contemporary Theory and Practice in Teaching Composition
  A syllabus for a proposed graduate course in the rhetoric concentration at UT Austin.
• E 398T: Teaching Literature and Composition
  A gradaute course proposed for rhetoric students at UT Austin