ENG 102R Course-Embedded Consultant (CEC) Student Info

CEC: Adrian Bryant

E-mail address: ​adrian_bryant44@mymail.eku.edu

About Me
My name is Adrian Paul Bryant. I am a senior English major and Appalachian Studies minor
from Jackson County, Kentucky. I love reading, watching movies, playing and listening to
music, and my addiction to coffee will likely be the cause of my death. I also love petting my
dogs, Daisy and Rosie, and telling them that I love them nearly 400 times a day.

What I Do
As a CEC, I am essentially an on-site tutor in your 102R class. I will be available to answer any
questions about the readings and assignments that you may have. I am a peer and a resource, and
will be available for whatever you need.

I have hours available for consultations about the class reading, essays, and other assignments.
Some assignments may require you to meet with me. ​Students are required to have a
minimum of five times throughout the semester.​ I have a Google Docs sign-up sheet on
Blackboard under “CEC Information” that has my hours for a given week. Appointments can be
a minimum of thirty minutes and a maximum of one hour. The sign-up sheet will be divided into
thirty minute slots; if an hour-long appointment is desired, sign up for two back-to-back
thirty-minute slots.

At the end of a consultation, you will be provided with a Record of Consultation (RoC), which is
a document that runs through everything discussed in the consultation. RoCs can be used as a
reference for your assignments throughout the course, and it is encouraged that you keep a folder
of them. The RoC will be emailed to you at the end of the consultation.

Traditionally, students meet with me in the physical space of the Noel Studio. Given the nature
of COVID-19, however, I will only be holding consultations online. There are two options for
online consultations: ​synchronous consultations​ and ​asynchronous consultations​.
● Synchronous consultations​ are likely what you have been imaging while reading this
syllabus: you will sign up for a time-slot, and during that time we will consult in
real-time over a video chat to discuss your work. Synchronous consultations will take
place through WCOnline, the Noel Studio's scheduling platform. I will send you a link to
click via email to join your consultation once the time comes.
● Asynchronous consultations​ have no real-time component. Essentially, you send me your
work, and I review it and send it back to you with my comments. If you sign up for say,
3:30-4:00 on a Monday, what you need to do is share a Google Doc of your essay,
outline, or whatever other assignment anytime with me before 3:30 on Monday (you are

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 also welcome to send me a Word Doc if Google Docs isn't your thing). Starting at 3:30, I
will review your work, making comments in the margins and filling out the RoC. At 4:00,
I will resend the Google Doc to you, as well as the RoC. There will be no video/web
chatting of any kind; we are just sending things back and forth to each other.

You are welcome to choose either method for your consultation. Most students have preferred
asynchronous consultations since COVID-19 has reshaped our learning environments. It is more
flexible and doesn't require you to take a chunk out of your day that you could dedicate to work,
homework, or self-care. Some students still prefer synchronous consultations because they like
talking to someone live. Both methods have their strengths and weaknesses, but ultimately the
choice is yours as to what method to choose. However, asynchronous consultations require that
you have at least some work typed out, as they hinge on you sending documents to me -- if you
wish to have a brainstorming consultation to generate ideas when you are struggling to think of
things to write, or want to have a consultation in which we discuss a class reading you are having
a hard time with, those consultations must be synchronous given that you can't really send me a
document to review on my own focusing on either of those topics.

I am in no way responsible for, nor am I active in the grading of assignments. ​I cannot and
will not grade any essays or assignments, nor will I predict or speculate on a grade when asked.
With any given assignment, I will have a rubric on-hand (should a rubric be provided), in which
I can tell you what areas need improvement, but I am prohibited from giving grades or
estimations of grades. All I can do is provide assistance in efficiently and effectively completing
class assignments, as well as assistance in understanding assigned materials. Any questions about
grading should be directed to the course instructor.

Contact Info and Studio Availability

I can be reached by e-mail at adrian_bryant44@mymail.eku.edu. I will always reply within 24
hours. If you want a speedy reply, though, contact me during my consultation hours. I am here to
help, so never be afraid to ask me anything.

My consultation hours are subject to change, but on an average week they will be:
Mondays:​ 8:30-10:30 AM; 1:00-6:00 PM
Tuesdays:​ 5:30-8:30 PM
Wednesdays: ​8:30-10:30 AM
Thursdays:​ 5:30-8:30 PM
Fridays: ​8:30-10:30 AM
If you schedule an appointment and end up not being able to make it, let me know as soon as
possible. For thirty minute appointments, if you are 10+ minutes late, I will count it as a missed
appointment and you will have to reschedule. For hour-long appointments, if you are 15+

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minutes late, your appointment will count as missed. ​After three missed appointments, you are
banned from meeting with me until you meet with a Noel Studio administrator to regain
your Studio privileges.​ In the event that you miss three, I will email you notifying you of this
and attach my supervisor's email so that you can arrange a meeting.

I look forward to getting to know you all this semester. Feel free to contact me at any time.

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 Evidence! All arguments require support.
 In a research paper, research is necessary to back up
your thesis, because “[a]necdotes alone don’t prove
much” (Carr 228).
 Power! Good writers use pretty words, and a
scarce number of others’ pretty words are
helpful.
 Opening a speech with a common parable,
quoting MLK in a Civil Rights essay, etc.
 Regardless,quotes should always enhance
your own words and serve your own purpose.
Your paper is YOURS. Do not piggy back
solely on others’ ideas.
 Using specific words from the author.
 Citing a specific piece of research.
 Providing evidence for a point.
 Using an idea from an author.
 Paraphrasing can be useful for this, as well.
 Malcolm X felt free after starting to write
the dictionary. “You couldn’t have gotten me
out of books with a wedge.” After writing it
he discovered a love for reading.
 Alexie began reading Superman comics as a
kid. “My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I
decided to love books.”
 Quote sandwich:

Introduction of the Quote

The Juicy Quote

Explanation of quote
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 Introductionof the quote: Who said it? Why
did they say it?
 Mike Rose, “Blue-Collar Brilliance.”
 Quote: The actual words from the source.
 “My mother, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie), shaped her
adult identity as a waitress in coffee shops and family
restuarants.” Page 243.
 Explanation of quote: Of what significance is
this quote?
 Rose combines personal experience with a scholarly
voice.
 Rosewrites, “My mother, Rose Meraglio Rose
(Rosie) shaped her adult identity in coffee
shops and family restaurants” (243). Rose
frames the structure of the text by
combining the personal, by naming his
mother, and the scholarly, by using the
phrase “shaped her adult identity” (243).
 Take the following parts and put them
together to form a hearty sammich.
 Malcolm X’s copying of the dictionary
opened a new passion for reading in his
life.
 Malcolm X, “Coming to an Awareness of
Language.”
 “from then on until the time I left that
prison, in every free moment I had, if I was
not reading in the library, I was reading on
my bunk.” Page 69.
 In his essay, “Coming to an Awareness of
Language,” Malcolm X relays that “from then
on until the time that I left that prison, in
every free moment I had, if I was not reading
in the library, I was reading on my bunk”
(69). His copying of the dictionary led to a
love of reading that changed his life in and
out of prison.
 Quote:“My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I
decided to love books as well” (Alexie 78).

 Alexie’s
love of reading started as an
emulation of his father, who was an avid
reader (78).
 Donot feel pressured to use entire
sentences. Short phrases here and there are
preferable to seven long sentences.
 The many examples clearly support his
conclusion that “analytic moments” are part of
many everyday routines of these occupations,
that they “can be cognitively rich” (254).
 Once again, make sure that you are using
quotes to support your words as opposed to
using the words of others to meet the page
requirement.
 Do not put punctuations within the quote.
Put them on the outside of the parenthetical
citation.
 Be judicious in your quote selection; be sure
your paper is composed of mostly your own
words, and that the quotes you do use are
essential to your paper.