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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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Agenda items: assistant director, adoption of readers
Items discussed at meeting: variant text request, E 306 summer syllabus, textbook adoption
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Silver requests permission from the department to use a different textbook -- The Borzoi Reader -- in his composition course.
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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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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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Items discussed: variant course proposals, AGSE response to new E 306 proposals (self-paced course), E 306 syllabus revision
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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A handwritten memo requesting to teach a variant of E 307 focused on science writing, with brief syllabus attached
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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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Items include: textbook committee report, new E 306 syllabus, new English program
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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