DRW Digital Archive

Items

• Points of Difference
  An unnamed writer's list of points of difference with three faculty—Slatin, Kinneavy, and Ferreira-Buckley—about the DRC and what it should do. Differences include opinions on the minimum appointment amount for executive committee eligibility, concerns about staffing, and criticism of the English department.
• Division of Rhetoric and Composition Course Proposals
  A collection of course proposals from various people for the DRC: E 306, E 309K (two variants: Writing about Literature and Writing about Popular Culture), E 309L The Writing Process, E 309M Thinking and Writing (Two Versions: Writing and Technology and Classical Rhetoric), E 309Msp (a course for students who test out of E 306), E 319, E 325M
• Kruppa and Cunningham Memos Announcing Formation of Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  A memo from Joseph Kruppa introducing a letter from William Cunningham. The letter explains Cunningham's intention to form an autonomous academic unit dedicated to writing instruction (DRC) and includes a proposal that details the unit's function.
• DRC Progress Report 1993
  A memo from Joe Kruppa (English Department Chair) introducing and circulating a progress report detailing the work done by the Committee on the Division of Rhetoric, with the full report attached, which briefly details the committee's deliberations and points of agreement. 9 February 1993 cover memo from Kruppa introducing a progress report from the Committee on the Division of Rhetoric. Attached is the 28 January memo, redated 2 February, with few changes.
• Division of Writing
  A list of goals for a new academic unit devoted to writing instruction, also including ideas about "collegiality" with the English Department, courses that could be offered, the SWC initiative, writing labs, an honors concentration, and a graduate program.
• Memo Announcing an English Department Meeting on Division of Rhetoric and Composition Proposal
  A memo calling a meeting to discuss the possible impacts of the new DRC on the English Department graduate program.
• Memo from Durbin With Questions About Division of Rhetoric and Composition Proposal
  A memo asking President Livingston to address certain concerns about the DRC, particularly the director's control over faculty appointments within the division . The writer, a mathematics professor, is chair of the Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.
• Discussion Points for 1992 Meeting About DRC Formation
  A list of discussion points for a meeting with John Ruszkiewicz, Lester Faigley, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, and James Kinneavy about the potential for the Division of Rhetoric and Composition. Points focus on the benefits of a "clean slate" and the division's commitment to being a high-profile scholarly program.
• Memo to Barbara McFarland from John Ruszkiewicz, 28 March 1985
  A memo from Ruszkiewicz proposing a question for Dean Robert King at the upcoming College of Liberal Arts Faculty meeting (3 may 1985); Ruszkiewicz's question is about William Sutherland's suggestion that the dean might form a separate Division of Composition.
• Letter from Edward Corbett to John Ruszkiewicz, 25 August 1985
  A letter handwritten on hotel stationary, thanking Rusziewicz for the opportunity to give e lecture during new teacher orientation, listing expenses for reimbursement, and expressing condolences over recent departmental problems.
• RHE 330D Classical to Modern Rhetoric
  A complete syllabus for an upper-division writing course offered by the Department of Rhetoric and Writing
• RHE 368C Writing Center Internship
  A complete syllabus for an upper-division writing class offered to undergraduate peer tutors in the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin
• RHE 315 Visual Rhetoric
  A complete syllabus for a lower-division writing course at the University of Texas at Austin
• RHE 325M Advanced Expository Writing
  A complete syllabus for an upper-division writing course offered in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing
• RHE 310 Intermediate Writing
  A complete syllabus for RHE 310 Intermediate Writing, a lower-division writing course offered in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing
• RHE 330D History of Rhetoric: The Art of Rhetoric
  A complete syllabus for an early upper-division course taught in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition.
• Letter from Evan Fitzmaurice to John Ruszkiewicz
  A personal letter thanking Ruszkiewicz congratulating him on the publication of The _Presence of Others_. Fitzmaurice also comments on the state of campus politics at UT and the recent establishment of the DRC.
• Letter appointing Lester Faigley as Director and John Ruszkiewicz as Associate Director of the new Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  King, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, writes Ruszkiewicz and Faigley congratulating them and naming them the new director and associate director of the DRC.
• Letter from Neil Megaw to John Ruszkiewicz, 18 August 1988
  Megaw writes to thank John Ruszkiewicz for participating in the new instructor orientation. A schedule of the orientation is attached with Ruszkiewicz's session circled: “Practical Tips on Teaching Writing.”