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Freshman English Policy Committee agenda 27 April 1984 and Freshman English Policy Committee Minutes 20 April 1984 Items listed: assistant director, E 106/206 status, computers in the writing lab, revised grading standard, variant text requests; Variant text requests attached
Items discussed at meeting: McMurrey request for computers in the writing lab, textbooks, E 106/206 decision; attached are guidelines for grading freshman writing
Members present: Ruszkiewicz, LeClerq, Myers, Simon, Westbrook, Daniell, Jarratt, Trachsel
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Freshman English Policy Committee agenda 20 April 1984 Agenda items: assistant director, adoption of readers
Items discussed at meeting: variant text request, E 306 summer syllabus, textbook adoption
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda 4 May 1984 and Minutes 27 April 1984 Agenda items: variant text proposals, grading standards, AIs working in the Writing Lab
Items discussed at meeting: AD interviews, decision not to offer E 106/206, David McMurrey's request for computers in the writing lab, grading standards
Members in attendance: Ruszkiewicz, Daniell, Jarratt, Jolliffe, McMurrey, Simon, Trachsel
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Freshman English Policy Committee Minutes 4 May 1984 Items discussed: revised grading standards, proposal for AIs to work in the Writing Lab
Members in attendance: Ruszkiewicz, Daniell, Jarratt, Jolliffe, LeClerq, Mcmurrey, Myers, Trachsel, Underwood
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Variant Text Proposals (Several) Several proposals, with handwritten comments, from faculty for permission to use variant textbooks in their E 306 and E 308 courses.
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A Descriptive Study of the Correlation between Freshman English Students' Cognitive Development and Selected Measures of their Writing Ability Graduate student Ranieri proposes dissertation study, outlining previous scholarship and drafting methods of investigating the correlation between cognitive development and writing ability.
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda 26 October 1982 Items listed on agenda: variant course proposals
Items discussed at meeting: president's approval of the new composition program and the end of E 307, plagiarism problem
Attached: variant text proposals from Elisabeth B. Segre and Alice Korach
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda 26 October 1982 Items on agenda: variant course proposal, AGSE response to TLC recommendations
Items discussed at meeting: Paul Ranieri's request, Chisolm proposal, plagiarism problem
Attached: variant text proposal from Elisabeth B. Segre
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Variant Textbook Proposal Silver requests permission from the department to use a different textbook -- The Borzoi Reader -- in his composition course.
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Variant Text Proposal Ngenge requests permission from the department to use a different textbook -- the McGraw-Hill Reader -- in E 306 instead of the Norton Reader.
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Variant Text Proposal Hampton requests permission from the department to use a different textbook -- Patterns in Popular Culture by Semeiks and Schecter -- in his E 308PC course.
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Freshman English Policy Committee Minutes 26 October 1982 Items discussed: variant course proposals, AGSE response to new E 306 proposals (self-paced course), E 306 syllabus revision
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda and Minutes 29 April 1982 Items listed for discussion: variant text and course requests, proposal for E 308 Popular Culture, proposal to let E 306 students take ECT for placement, decision on assistant director 1982-1983, and adjournment.
In attendance: Kinneavy, King, Underwood, Byerman, Cook, Meyer, Marks, Merritt, and Sipiora.
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Textbook Subcommittee Report A report including related documents and recommendations for new english handbook to be considered by FEPC. Only changes are a few superficial changes in Little/Brown .
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Variant Text Proposal E 306
Frost proposes using an alternative textbook -- A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers -- for her E 306 course and explains her rationale for the switch.
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Variant Text Proposal E 308PC Hampton proposes using an alternative textbook -- Patterns in Popular Culture -- for his E 308PC course and explains his rationale for the switch.
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Freshman English Policy Committee Minutes 6 April 1983 Items discussed: textbooks and new assistant director. The committee agrees that potential assistant directors must have no incompletes to be considered for the position. In attendance: Lidoff, Meyer, Ruszkiewicz, King, Jolliffee, Hay, Merrit, Trachsel, and LeClercq.
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Summary of Textbooks Used in Lower Division Writing A report of the number of classes using certain textbooks, along with a sales report of these books from the university bookstore (the co-op); appended are additional comments on the textbooks themselves and comments given by instructors in a survey about textbooks
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Letter withdrawing candidacy for Assistant Director of Freshman English A letter to John Ruszkiewicz withdrawing Jolliffe's application for the job of assistant director so that he can work on a research project with Lester Faigley and Greg Myers.
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Freshman English Policy Committee Minutes 30 March 1983 Freshman English Policy Committee (FEPC) meeting minutes in which textbook selection was mostly discussed. Ruszkiewicz also reported that 50% of incoming students would be entering into the new composition program, while 50% of incoming students would be entering into the existing program.
In attendance: Ruszkiewicz, Hay, V. LeClercq, Lidoff, Underwood, Jollifee, Merritt, and Trachsel
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Freshmen English Policy Committee Agenda 5 April 1983 FEPC meeting agenda. Items include: Decision on assistant director, textbook decisions. Includes a handwritten note: "Reader chooses: A World of Ideas, Outlooks & Insights"
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Variant Course Proposal E 307 A handwritten memo requesting to teach a variant of E 307 focused on science writing, with brief syllabus attached
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Variant Text Proposal E 307 Alcorn proposing that the new policy not permitting literature to be taught in lower-division writing classes should not apply to his own course and requesting to use the Norton Anthology of literature in E 307; syllabus attached.
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda 1 March 1983 Items include: textbook committee report, new E 306 syllabus, new English program
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Freshman English Policy Committee Agenda 25 March 1983 A Freshman English Policy Committee (FEPC) agenda from 25 March 1983, textbook committee report, and FEPC minutes from 9 March 1983 given to John Ruszkiewicz.
Agenda items: Text adoption, Assistant Director position, new E 306 syllabus, and "Gannaway matter" added by hand.
FEPC Minutes 9 March 1983: Textbook selection discusses, Sledd's two amendments were defeated by University Council, concerns addressed over Gloria Gannaway's choice of text in a variant course. In attendance: Ruskiewicz, Jolliffe, Hay, Merritt, King, LeClercq, and Trachsel.
Items discussed at meeting: Defeat of Sledd's amendments at University Council, textbook approval