ENG800

Writing
Foundations
Week 1
Meet Session
PRESENTED BY DR.
TRACY WALKER
GREENE
Welcome to ENG800 –
Writing Foundations

The primary purpose of English 800 is to develop

your ability to practice academic research,
specifically through the acts of reading and writing.
Take a 2-3 minutes to write a response to any of
the following questions on the next slide .
Choose One Question to Answer
◦ What has been your engagement ◦ If you were to assess yourself right
with academic research in the past? now as a writer and reader, what do
Have you been a reader of research? you qualities do you feel will serve
A writer of research? A practicing you well in the coming semester?
researcher? What qualities do you feel you might
need to improve on?
◦ Now that GRAD 888 is in the
books what is your attitude
toward the academic research
you will be conducting in the
coming years? What gives
confidence, pause, or
excitement?
Overview of ENG800
Unit 1: Doctoral Writing: An
Introduction (2 Weeks)
1) Evaluate academic writing
genres and values.
2) Develop a research area.
3) Reflect on successful habits of 3. Assess trends, themes, and patterns
academic writers and
researchers.
4) Analyze fundamentals of
applied research.
Unit 2: Reading and Notetaking with
a Purpose (4 Weeks)
1. Identify key genre conventions and
components of academic research.
2. Apply critical reading skills:
summarize, evaluate, reflect.
in a field.
4. Utilize notetaking software and
library resources.
5. Evaluate peers' work.
Overview of ENG800 Continue…
Unit 3: Drafting Toward a Contribution
(5 Weeks)
1. Create a complete, coherent literature
review.
2. Practice the recursiveness (repeating) of
writing, research, and reading processes.
3. Develop genre competency and savvy
through reading and writing.
4. Reflect critically on writing habits and the
writing process.
5. Identify and capitalize on different
feedback systems (peers, faculty, Learning
Commons, etc.)
Unit 4: Presenting Research (1
Week)
1. Frame research for different
contexts and different
audiences.
2. Practice the logical / rhetorical
conventions of discussing
specific research work and
interest.
3. Reflect critically on writing
habits and the writing process.
Student Expectations
•There are number of •Franklin University’s 3-Day Late
assignments that involves peer Submission Assignment Policy
review, this means you want to •Franklin University’s Online Class
strive to submit your Attendance Policy
assignments on time
•Prioritization and time
management is key to complete
all your doctoral assignments in
this course and in your other
doctoral courses.
 The Literature Review: What is it? What
purpose does it serve?
“A review of the literature is This amounts to showing that
important because without it you you have understood the main
will not acquire an theories in the subject area and
understanding of your topic, of how they have been applied and
what has already been done on developed, as well as the main
it, how it has been researched, criticisms that have been made
and what the key issues are. In of work on the topic.”
your written project you will be
expected to show that you
understand previous research on
your topic.
(Hart, 1998, p. 1, as quoted in Roberts, 2010)
 The Literature Review Process
“It seems clear that the central line of This is the inverse of the
reasoning in the research review research review model, for until
depends on the information contained you find and read your sources,
in your sources. This contrasts with
some term-paper assignments, you will have no argument to
in which the writer is encouraged to make.”
present his or her own position,
supported with references to other
authors. In such assignments (a
common academic model), the line of
argument comes first, and the
supporting sources come later.”

-- From Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse by Ann M. Pennrose and Steven B. Katz
 The Writing
Construct

Writing

Reader Engagement
Reasoning Genre
What does my audience Style
What is the central claim What exactly am I trying to
value/expect? How can I lead What makes writing clear,
here, and what write, and how is it different
them to see my subject in the cogent, and “correct”?
reasons/evidence support it? from other types of texts?
way I do?
 The Writer Construct

Effective Writers

Open to
Good Readers Good Planners And more!
Feedback
Writing a Literature Review Video
Clip
Listen to the following video.
Write down what you
learned from listening to the
9 minute video.
For This Week
1. Complete discussion board
activity
2. Complete assigned readings
3. Look ahead to week two –
consider the major assignment
for the unit.