DRW Digital Archive

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• Graduate Syllabus: Approaches to Teaching of Basic Writing
  A syllabus put forward for the graduate concentration in rhetoric at UT Austin
• Graduate Program Reading List
  A list of suggested readings for graduate students concentrating in rhetoric.
• List of Graduate Students
  A memo from Lester Faigley to the members of the Rhetoric Interest Group listing all the graduate students enrolled in the rhetoric concentration of the graduate program or in allied programs, such as linguistics.
• Major Selling Points of Our Plan
  A list of seven major selling points for a plan to establish an autonomous writing program.
• Minutes of the English Department Executive Committee 26 April 1985
  Items discussed: James Berlin's appointment as visiting professor in 1985-1986 academic year (approved); teaching awards and promotions; sabbaticals for faculty; postdoctoral fellowships; Faculty Senate approval of a policy on lecturers. Present at the Meeting: Sutherland, Cable, Bertleson, Bump, Cable, Farrell, Kruppa, Reed, Renwick, Slatin, Whitbread, Worthen
• Recommendations for a New Writing Program
  A two-page description of a proposed, autonomous writing program that offers E 306 ,E 317, E 346K and E 310.
• Memo to Faculty about E 346K
  William Sutherland writes to the English faculty to explain that E 346K has been suspended.
• Memo to Lecturers
  Sutherland writes the lecturers to explain that E 346K has been suspended for the coming academic year.
• Projected Composition Offerings 1986-1987
  A 3-page list of the courses that the English Department can offer (including E 306, E 310, E 317, E 347K, and E 325M, including reflections on the staffing that will be required to offer these sections.
• Summary of Administration
  A 3-page plan for a writing division administrative separate from the English Department.
• Request to reinstate English Department faculty governance
  Numerous English faculty write to Dean Bob King requesting that their ability to make departmental policy be reinstated.
• Alternative Staffing Capabilities
  An extended argument for keeping E 306 as a required course, reinstating E 307, allowing E 346K to remain as an elective. and projecting various ways to maintain this offering while preserving lecturers' jobs.
• E346K Course Instructor Surveys, Numerical Averages
  Numerical averages for all course instructor surveys for E 346K, fall 1984.
• Course-Instructor Surveys E 346K, Fall 1984
  Numerical results and handwritten comments suggest that students appreciated Kinneavy's fall 1984 E 346K class.
• "What is this Thing Called Teaching Writing"
  Hairston makes an argument for the discipline and the teaching of composition as distinct from that of literature, complete with its own body of scholarly research and its own pedagogical practices. Kinneavy's handwritten questions are on a few pages.
• Academic Success and Writing Ability: A Survey of Student Writing Ability
  This is the Sledd/Hereford report indicating student and faculty disapproval of the writing curriculum at UT Austin
• Letter from Carol Hartzog about her MLA article on E 306
  Hartzog writes Kinneavy, thanking him for his willingness to review an article she's writing about the Writing about Difference debate at UT. Attached is a page of handwritten notes by Kinneavy and a copy of Hartzog's article
• Memo about E 346K descriptions
  Malof writes to Maureen McElroy explaining that it's best to provide skimpy descriptions of E 346K in the course catalogue to allow maximum flexibility for the individual instructors. He provides a sample description for the course catalogue that covers all variants of E 346K
• E 346K Writing in Different Disciplines
  Joe Moldenhauer writes the English Department faculty to tell them that the University Faculty Council approved the English Department proposal for new requirements in English, including the E 346K requirement and its three variants (business, social sciences, natural sciences and technology). Moldenhauer explains that the next stage will involve development of guidelines and sample syllabi, guaranteeing that faculty will have a wide range of discretion when designing their own courses. Attached are descriptions of the three variants on the course.
• Summary of Meeting 2-22-84
  Joe Malof summarizes the things discussed and the outcome of the February 22 meeting. Textbooks were discussed. Also discussed was the inability to give exemption for E 346K to students who have taken E 325M, E 367L and E 379C. Kinneavy mentioned that the university legislation mandating E 346K superceded the department's ability to grant exceptions.
• E 346K Textbook Survey
  A survey sent to E 346K instructors asking them what textbooks they are using or plan to use in their courses.
• E 346K Meeting Agenda, 29 February 1984
  An agenda and description of concerns to be addressed at an upcoming meeting of the E 346K committee. Malof states that the most pressing matter for the committee is to provide resources for their instructors in the coming year: syllabi, guidelines, handouts, assignment descriptions, and policy statements. He also mentions the need to get more lecturers attending Kinneavy's weekly sessions about the course, and Sutherland's desire to get more faculty involved in the course planning.
• Textbooks for E 346K
  A memo to Joe Kruppa recommending textbooks for the various sections of E 346K.
• E 346K Information Copy to Bill Sutherland
  Joe Malof writes the E 346K committee to say that English Department Chair William Sutherland will join the committee for their first meeting 22 February 1984. Items of concern mentioned by Malof for the committee to consider include: course descriptions for the four variants of E 346K, textbook selection for all sections of E 346K, and Kinneavy's meetings with future instructors of E 346K. An 11-item agenda is attached that mentions: transitioning to the new requirements featuring E 346K, required/recommended textbooks, allowances for experimentation in the course, the possibility of a fourth (business) variant, and research guides for each variant of the course, developed by the staff at the Perry Castaneda Libarary.
• Comments on E 346K texts
  Comments from three English faculty about potentially useful textbooks for E 346K.