ENC 1101, Fall 2012 Writing and Rhetoric College of Arts and Humanities University of Central Florida Course

Syllabus Instructor: Leslie Wolcott Office: CNH (Colbourn) 305F Contact: Leslie.Wolcott@ucf.edu Class Meeting times: MoWeFr 11:30AM - 12:20PM Class Meeting Location: PSY 0204 Office Hours: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Mon, Wed, Fri, and by appointment. I. Welcome! Welcome to ENC 1101, where we will read and write about writing. This means that we will be studying how scholars talk about and research writing as we practice writing ourselves. The readings in this class will be challenging, but you will also be able to engage in genuine dialogue about writing and about your own writing practices. This class will be quite different from English classes you may have taken in the past. University Course Catalog Description Expository writing with emphasis on effective communication and critical thinking. Emphasizing the writing process writing topics are based on selected readings and on student experiences. Gordon Rule: All sections of 1101 and 1102 are Gordon Rule courses and students enrolled in those courses are required by Florida law to produce at least 4 formal graded writing assignments. To satisfy the Gordon Rule requirement, students must receive a C- or better in the class. Ds will not be given in ENC 1101 or 1102.

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Course Objectives Have structured reflection strategies to stop and think before, during, and after writing about what you are observing and learning Before writing, understand primary, secondary, and other audiences and what they bring to the table Consider differences in genres and conventions when encountering real-world writing examples Understand the writing process and that is different for everyone Begin to understand the concept of discourse communities Understand and be able to conduct rhetorical analysis Understand the concept of intertextuality and how it applies to your own work and to the policies and procedures that affect your work. Course Prerequisites No prerequisites Course Credits 3 Required Texts and Materials Downs, Doug and Elizabeth Wardle. Writing about Writing: A College Reader. Bedford/St. Martins, 2010.

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VII. Supplementary (Optional) Texts and Materials There will be some articles on E Reserve at the library and/or available via PDF through webcourses. I am not requiring a style manual, but you should either find one of your choosing that includes discussion of MLA style, or book mark Purdue Universitys online writing center website on your web browser (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/679/01/). I have linked to OWL at Purdue from webcourses as well. VIII. Basis for Final Grade Your grade for the course will be determined in the following manner. You will receive detailed assignments for each of these graded portions of the course. Percent of Final Assessed Assignment Grade Reading Journal 10% Rhetorical Analysis Project 15% Writing Process Assignment 15%

Discourse Community Assignment Workshop Participation Conference Attendance Final Portfolio

15% 10% 5% 25.00% 100%

Grading Scale Grading Scale (%) 94-100 A 90-93 A87-89 B+ 84-86 B 80-83 B77-79 C+ 74-76 C 70-73 C0 - 69 F No credit NC

Portfolio Grading: I use a portfolio grading method, because this class emphasizes teaching writing as a process. This means you will receive feedback on your larger writing assignments, with some points that contribute to your final grade. Then, I expect you to revise your major assignments multiple times before including them in your portfolio at the end of the semester. So, the focus during the semester should be revising with an eye toward putting a very good final draft of each assignment in your portfolio. It is your responsibility to keep all writing that you do in and out of this class. This portfolio constitutes a large portion of your grade for this class. IX. Grade Dissemination Graded materials and essays in this course will be returned to you in person, during class periods. Your grades will also be recorded in the webcourses gradebook.

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Course Policies: Grades of "Incomplete": Incompletes will not be given in ENC 1101 or 1102. Course Policies: Technology and Media Email: You are required by the university to activate, and regularly check your knightmail email account. If I send messages by email, they will be sent to your address @knights.ucf.edu. Webcourses: Each section of 1101 will have a page on webcourses. I will primarily use webcourses as a way to disseminate the semester schedule, assignment sheets and other course documents (instead of handing them to you on paper, I will direct you to webcourses where you can save or print the assignment sheets yourself). You will also find on webcourses helpful links to resources discussed in class, last-minute notes and reminders from me, and a discussion board where you may choose to ask questions of your classmates. If I ever need to cancel class due to illness or emergency, you will also find instructions in the announcements section of webcourses about that days work. Laptop Usage: There are some occasions during class when you will be welcome to use your laptops, and sometimes I may ask you to put them away and use pen and paper. Please feel free to bring your laptop any time. Unless I give specific instructions otherwise, you are usually welcome to do your in-class writing on a laptop or mobile device. However, if I find that you use such a device in a manner that is distracting to yourself or others, I may ask you to put it away.

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Course Policies: Student Expectations Disability Access: The University of Central Florida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all persons with disabilities. This syllabus is available in alternate formats upon request. Students with disabilities who need accommodations in this course must contact the professor at the beginning of the semester to discuss needed accommodations. No accommodations will be provided until the student has met with the professor to request accommodations. Students who need accommodations must be registered with Student Disability Services, Student Resource Center Room 132, phone (407) 823-2371, TTY/TDD only phone (407) 823-2116, before requesting accommodations from the professor. Attendance Policy: Attendance is required for success in this course. You may not make up in-class quizzes or workshops unless you have notified me beforehand of an emergency situation that requires you to miss. After four absences, your grade for the class will drop one letter grade. You will lose an additional letter grade for each two absences beyond the initial four. Professionalism Policy Per university policy and classroom etiquette; mobile phones, iPods, etc. must be silenced during all classroom and lab lectures. Those not heeding this rule will be asked to leave the classroom/lab immediately so as to not disrupt the learning

environment. Please arrive on time for all class meetings. Students who habitually disturb the class by talking, arriving late, etc., and have been warned may suffer a reduction in their final class grade. Academic Conduct Policy: We will talk extensively in class about what plagiarism is, how it is defined (differently by different cultures), and what the implications of plagiarism are. However, you should know that if you turn in work as your own that is not your own, or if you fail to attribute the work of others in your papers, that you could be subjected to a grade penalty accourding to UCF's Golden Rule Rules of Conduct. See http://www.goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu/ for further details. Violations of these rules will result in a record of the infraction being placed in your file and receiving a zero on the work in question AT A MINIMUM. At the instructors discretion, you may also receive a failing grade for the course. Confirmation of such incidents can also result in expulsion from the University University Writing Center: The University Writing Center (UWC) is a free resource for UCF undergraduates and graduates. At the UWC, a trained writing consultant will work individually with you on anything you're writing (in or out of class), at any point in the writing process from brainstorming to editing. Appointments are recommended, but not required. For more information or to make an appointment, visit the UWC website at http://www.uwc.ucf.edu, stop by the Writing Center, or call 407.823.2197. XIII. Important Dates to Remember Classes begin Last Day to Add/Drop Classes: Last Day for Full Refund: Grade Forgiveness Deadline: Withdrawal Deadline: Final Examination Period: Monday, August 20, 2012 Thursday, August 23, 2012 Thursday, August 23, 2012 Monday, October 29, 2012 Monday, October 29, 2012 December 5 -11, 2012

XIV. Semester Schedule In webcourses, under the tab labeled Course Documents you will find your semester schedule. Ive also copied it below. It gives you a rough idea of what we will be doing this semester, what you will be reading, and when major papers and the portfolio will be due. This schedule is subject to change due to the speed with which we are able to accomplish course objectives in each major section of the class. In fact, it will changeI guarantee it. Please make note of changes when I announce them in class. I will also provide you with an updated electronic copy of the schedule if major changes are made.

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Objectives

In class Introduction to ENC 1101; Intro to Writing about Writing; Brief review of textbooks. What is good writing-in class writing sample. Introduction to journals (if time, if not Wed)

HW and Assignments due

Intro to the course

Have structured reflection strategies to stop and think before, during, and after writing about what you are observing 8/20/2012 and learning

Read p. 1-5 in WAW; Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts" Haas and Flower, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning in WAW textbook Haas and Flower, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning in WAW textbook

8/22/2012 Before writing, understand primary, secondary, and other audiences and what they bring to the table 8/24/2012 Understand and be able to conduct rhetorical analysis

How to read difficult texts; reading journals ; good writing contd Audience

Rhetorical analysis

Cinderella, audience, technology and audience

8/27/2012 Either in class or for homework read and analyze this fellow's letter to a lady after his first date. What has he failed to realize about audience? Why is audience important? Understand and be able to conduct rhetorical analysis 8/31/2012 Labor Day Holiday No Class 9/3/2012 Rhetorical situations and analysis

Read "Backpacks and Briefcases," by Laura Bolin Carroll. This is a chapter from an opensource textbook (freely shared by the authors). You can find it here: http://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces 1 Find link in the web links section of webcourses

8/29/2012

Lloyd Bitzer, "The Rhetorical Situation"

Grant-Davie, "Rhetorical Situations and their Constituents" 9/5/2012 9/7/2012 Grant Davie and brainstorming for Rhetorical Analysis paper TBD TBD

9/10/2012 9/12/2012 9/14/2012 Writing Process Understand the writing process and that 9/17/2012 is different for everyone

In class work on rhetorical analysis assignment Rhetorical Analysis Workshop

finish rhetorical analysis for workshop Rhetorical analysis due next class Rhetorical analysis due Rose, "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Shifting of Language" Perl "The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers"

the Rules of Writing Discussion of Rose; watch Fry video in class; Introduction of writing self study Discussion of Perl; Introduction to your own writing self study; practicing the think aloud

9/19/2012

Begin to understand your own writing 9/21/2012 process

Berkentotter, "Decisions and Revisions"

Choose one of the following essays and write a reading journal about it: King, Goodman, Haruf, Sontag, or Junot Diaz. Feel free to read more than one.

9/24/2012 9/26/2012

Discussion of Berkentotter Discussion of writers on their processes Independent collection of data for writing self study; conferences

9/28/2012

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Independent collection of data for writing self study; conferences making sense of your data; in class coding of your collected data

self study data (the information you've collected, not the paper) due tomorrow in class

10/3/2012 10/5/2012 10/8/2012 10/10/201 2 Intertextualit y 10/12/201 2 Introduction to Intertextuality 10/15/201 2 intertextuality, cont'd 10/17/201 2 plagiarism and intertextuality 10/19/201 2 Observing; writing about details 10/22/201 2 Understand discourse communities Discourse Communities 10/24/201 2 10/26/201 2 discussion of Gee

Workshop of writing process papers

Writing process papers due next class Writing process papers due Porter

Bazerman, Intertextuality (on webcourses)

Swales, "The Concept of Discourse Community", Intro to Forum paper

Discussion of Swales and the discourse communities we talked about last class

James Paul Gee, "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics"

10/29/201 Continued discussion of Gee, 2 mushfaking

Johns "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice,"

10/31/201 Discussion of Johns; introduction to 2 discourse community assignment 11/2/2012 Discussion of Mirabelli 11/5/2012 11/7/2012 11/9/2012 11/12/201 2 11/14/201 2 11/16/201 2 11/19/201 2 11/21/201 2 11/23/201 2 11/26/201 2 11/28/201 2 11/30/201 2 12/3/2012 work on discourse community assignment

Mirabelli "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers"

Veterans Day (Observed) no class discourse community work Discourse community assignment workshop Introduction to portfolios Discourse community revision due Thanksgiving Break--no class in class work on portfolios in class work on portfolios in class work on portfolios in class work on portfolios

Portfolios

Portfolios due