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A memo to the LDEPC suggesting an alternative to teaching first-year writing, a class that does not require content but instead focuses on the skills of grammar, paragraphing, and argumentation. Attached is Duban's fall 1990 E 306 syllabus to exemplify this approach
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Memo regarding 306 curriculum and textbook selections
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A letter from Karen Duban to Maxine Hairston, lamenting the E 306 controversy and suggesting an edited collection of P.C. battle stories from people on the political right. Letter redacted.
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A letter to Douglas Laycock (School of Law) rebutting charges that Kirt Heinzelman made against James Duban in the _Daily Texan_. Includes specific references to meetings and conversations.
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Ruzkiewicz provides rationale for the creation of the DRC as well as sharing his vision of what the division should and should not be. Possibly to be shared at 18 September 1992 English department meeting on the creation of the DRC.
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A memo from Lester Faigley to Robert King, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, thanking King for a meeting with him, James Kinneavy, John Ruszkiewicz, and Linda Ferreira-Buckley. In preparation for the meeting, Faigley explains some concerns about exemptions from E 306 and the lack of appropriate resources for rhetoric and composition.
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In notes on Kruppa's memo, Ruzkiewicz provides rationale for the creation of the DRC as well as sharing his vision of what the division should and should not be.
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A memo explaining that several English faculty had expressed concerns that by only meeting as part of university-wide committee, the English department members of said committee may not be adequately meeting the needs of the department. Carton disagrees that needs of the university and the English department are contradictory, but nevertheless suggests the English department committee members meet separately to regroup.
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Letter from Hartzog to Gribben requesting notes on a draft of an insert for MLA. Draft is attached with redacted handwritten edits from an unknown source. Edits contest elements of Brodkey's narrative of the controversy, encourage stronger language confirming the course's left-wing bias, and question Hartzog's lack of discussion of Brodkey's refusal for a pilot program.
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One page of notes about an early meeting among James Kinneavy, John Slatin, John Ruszkiewicz, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, and Lester Faigley discussing appointments for the DRC and a vision for the DRC's future.
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Ruszkiewicz reply to Hartzog with his comments on a possible MLA insert outlining the E 306 controversy. He contests some elements of Hartzog's narrative and includes departmental meeting minutes and memos to support his points.
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A memo accepting Kruppa's recommendations on English Department representatives for an advisory committee for the DRC. Representatives are Kinneavy, Carton, Faigley, Ferreira-Buckley, Kelley, Ruszkiewicz, and Slatin.
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Fax from Hartzog to Ruszkiewicz including draft of possible statement on E306 controversy for MLA.
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An unattributed explanation of a meeting about the DRC among James Kinneavy, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, John Slatin, and John Ruszkiewicz. The faculty oppose the originally proposed leadership structure and agree on a sequence of writing courses and he establishments of the Writing Center and the Computer Research Lab. They agree recruiting is necessary but are reluctant to take funding away from the English Department. Finally, the announce their decision to nominate Faigley as the first dividison chair. The document includes several handwritten edits.
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A status report assuring the English Department faculty that the Division of Composition would not be run by the Dean of Liberal Arts, that English Department graduate students would still be employed by the first-year writing program, and that English Department staffing would not be adversely affected by the new Division.
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“John” writes to to Evan, Lester, Linda, Terry, Jim, and John announcing they had “got it this time”
Attached is a 28 January “Interim Report on the Division of Rhetoric.” The report includes DRC plans to hire in the coming year as well as a history of the deliberations leading up to this attached proposal.
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Letter from Karen Duban to Carol Hartzog with notes on draft of Hartzog article "Through the Looking Glass." In the largely redacted letter, Duban chastises Hartzog for incomplete research on tehe E 306 controversy and suggests that she is assuming a partisan role in the manner. Extensive handwritten notes on the redacted draft critique the piece in great detail.
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Unattributed document asserting that the DRC will reevaluate E 306 exemptions, support minority and special students, consider new courses, prioritize the training of primary and secondary English teachers, and explore ways to enhance the training of AIs. Additionally, it will investigate ways of evaluating its performance and will move quickly to computerize courses, open a computer writing research lab, and consider a writing center. Finally, faculty will take a role improving the University's substantial writing component courses.
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A brief memo asking for one last meeting to discuss the report of the Division of Composition report to the English faculty, with particular questions about budget.s
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A memo officially creating the subcommittee that would contribute to the section of the Fowler report on writing.
Robert Berdhal (incoming UT President) references the University Council 16 November 1992 decision to create a “University Council Committee to Examine the Undergraduate Writing Program” (D&P 14428-14429), asking the following members to serve on that committee: Floyd Brandt (Management), Richard Cherwitz (Speech Communication), Melissa Collie (Government), Donald Davis (Library and Information Science), Lester Faigley (English), Wallace Fowler (Aerospace), Miguel Gonzales-Gerth (Spanish), Deborah Morrison (Advertising), Michael Starbird (Natural Sciences, Associate Dean). Fowler is asked to chair the committee.
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A memo and report describing meetings among those on the committee on the DRC describing their conversations and points of consensus. The writers agree that the DRC should be democratically led and retain close ties to the English Department, but will have more control over the writing program than before. E 306 will use the same syllabus. The DRC will enhance pedagogical training, open a Computer Writing and Research Lab, establish a Writing Center, and help improve the University's Substantial Writing Component courses. The committee's next steps are a meeting with the English Department Executive Council and the unanimous nomination of a Division Chair. It is also committed to hiring additional faculty, although not at the expense of the English Department.
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A Heritage Foundation flyer advertising the panel and the talk that John Ruszkiewicz gave at the 1992 ALEC conference.
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Brochure and schedule of sessions of ALEC's 1992 meeting in Colorado Springs.
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Handwritten note from Hairston to Ruszkiewicz introducing an attached article by Yale professor Woodward which has since been removed from the file. She also includes the letter she wrote Woodward, which congratulates him on speaking out against political correctness in the university. In the redacted letter, she recounts the E 306 controversy and notes that she, as someone interested in women's issues and as a political liberal, complicated the PC narrative that opposition to Writing About Difference came only from extreme conservatives. She ends her letter by calling for more to stand up and speak out against political correctness.
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A report decrying P.C. culture at American universities that makes specific reference to the E 306 controversy and the plight of Alan Gribben; Lynne Munson's card is attached.