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This memo discusses E 346K requirements and waivers.
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The constitution of the Executive Committee, approved in late November 1980 and stipulating the EC constitution, election of its members, and its purview.
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Typed text of Rossman letter to editor of The Daily Texan regarding E 346K postponement, written in response to editorials by Kinneavy and Scaggs. Article was never published in The Daily Texan but was circulated to some colleagues. Draft includes a handwritten note by Rossman to "David."
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Parody article that speaks to lecturer firings controversy.
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Prefatory note to an unattached essay by Wayne Pounds, a dissatisfied instructor/lecturer.
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Faculty Senate report on findings regarding E 346K, James Sledd contributing, to be discussed 29 April 1985. Expresses concern over E 346K waivers, why also expressing understanding of the English Department's difficult staffing situation.
Handwritten comments likely by James Sledd are written on the document.
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Fable-like tale about a bird, cow, and cat. Includes a handwritten personal note from S. Witte, in one corner specifically mentioning "John" (likely John Ruszkiewicz).
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Note by Max Westbrook indicates award for Max Westbrook for "mastery of paragraph development."
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This is the Governance Committee report discussed at the 10 October 1980 departmental meeting. The report includes a complete description of the English Department organization, including all committees, classifications of departmental members, voting privileges, and capacities to hold office.
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Minutes for College of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting where assistant instructors and Proposals on Composition and English Requirements are discussed.
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Joe Malof, Elections Officer writes to the voting members of the English Department to report that the EC Constitution revisions were approved by mail ballot on 21 November 1980.
Attached are the revisions to the EC Constitution, dated 21 November 1980 with separate tallies of the vote for each revision.
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Memo to teaching faculty addressing E 346K curriculum. Attached are sample course outlines for the three variants of E 346K
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A 12-page version of the proposals to revise the English composition curriculum, requiring E 306, E 316, and establishing a new course (E 346K).
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This amended proposal for changes to the undergraduate requirement in English features two major differences from the original February proposal: (1) The University Council, not the English Department, has authority to determine which classes can count for E 346K equivalency; (2) The Writing in Business variant of E 346K has been dropped.
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A report of an English Department faculty survey about how to award teaching load credits (TLCs).
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Moldenhauer writes to ask for faculty volunteers to serve on the study teams for the overhaul of the English Composition program.
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Reports the faculty elected to the EC beginning March 3, 1980.
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At this meeting, a range of issues were discussed: recruitment, the Vick Committee, leaves of absence, professorial teaching loads, money for outside speakers, and accommodations for non-teaching graduate students.
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At this meeting, the main topic of conversation is a motion to petition the dean for five new hires in the coming academic year. There is also some discussion of the Vick Committee and the faculty's willingness to teach E 306.
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At this meeting, the faculty discuss the content of the first-year writing course, covering a range of issues.
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At this meeting, the faculty discussed recruitment for the coming year with emphasis on recruitment of a new creative writer and a new technical writing specialist.
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Wayne Reborn writes to two Deans to report on his study of three College of Liberal Arts departments analogous to English (History, Linguistics, and Philosophy).
At the lower-division, Rebhorn says he finds little writing assigned in these departments and most of it graded by TAs. By contrast English lower-division courses assign a lot of writing, and professors grade the papers.
At the upper-division, he finds more writing assigned, but not nearly as much as is typical in an English upper-division class.
Rebhorn also stresses that in the English department, instructors not only assign writing, but they also teach it, responding substantively to student work, clarity of exposition, rhetorical strategy, and requiring revision.
Appended is a statistical breakdown of Rebhorn’s findings.
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Slatin writes to propose that, instead of a universal requirement for E 306, students be required to take several lower-division “foundations” courses that feature substantive and critical writing while teaching specific rhetorical skills within specific discipline. Such courses would allow literature faculty to teach classes that feature their areas of interest (literature) and would encourage other departments and colleges to assume some of the burden of lower-division writing classes, thus solving the English Department’s staffing problem.
Handwritten notes (probably from Ruszkiewicz) indicate strong disagreement with Slatin’s position.
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Sledd asks eleven questions about the writing program and the new English requirement at UT. In asking these questions, he criticizes the treatment of contingent faculty, the decision to shift resources towards upper-division classes, and the Dean's motives for pursuing these policies.
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President Flawn replies to Sledd’s questions submitted 7 January 1983. The Proposal for Changes to the College of Liberal Arts degree programs is deliberated and amended. Included is the amended plan for Liberal Arts degree programs as approved by the Faculty Senate.