College Writing Where You’re Going

1. College Writing Where You’re Going Joshua R. Fogleman English 110:College Writing June 25, 2010

2. Lenoir-Rhyne University

3. Academic Environment • Helping students’ adjust maladaptive study habits, techniques and strategies to foster greater collegiate academic success. • Equipping students with useful resources that will positively impact their academic success. • Leveling professor/student classroom expectations. • Partnering with students for academic success. • Academic Environment: is to liberate the mind and spirit, clarify personal faith and foster physical wholeness. • Mission Statement is HELP.

4. Writing Support • Lenoir-Rhyne University does not have a writing program. • The Writing Center offers free, confidential assistance with writing to students in all disciplines. Students who visit the Center have the opportunity to receive assistance with their writing. In addition, the Writing Center conducts a series of workshops on writing.

5. Writing Intensive courses • The WRI designation are designed to be relevant to Liberal Arts and Sciences. Level II courses accounts for students' develop as thinkers and writers in their introductory coursework. These outcomes and methods therefore build upon those for FYE and English 131.

6. Writing Intensive The level II WRI courses will demonstrate • The appropriate use of disciplinary writing conventions. • The ability to locate and use sources relevant to the field in their written work. • The ability to communicate effectively with target audiences typical of the discipline. • The practice of the stages of the drafting process: generating, revising and editing. • The use of writing and reading for intellectual inquiry and broader understanding.

7. Writing Intense Cont. To achieve these ends, it is expected that WRI instructors will: • instructional use of formal and informal writing assignments. • in-class instruction about the practice of writing, and/or conduct conferences with individual students or groups • Use collaborative writing activities (peer review) • feedback to students at the drafting stage • Require students to revise their work both instructor and peer feedback. • significant portion of the course grade to written work

8. Information from Dr. Ivey • first-year composition requirement • Critical Thinking and Writing • There are other courses that are writing-intensive component • ENG131 requires 5000 words of revised prose • also a research component.   • Required writing in ENG131 consists primarily of exposition and argument • There is no standardization of the course, so sections vary in thematic content and specific assignments.

9. A type of writing that’s required • writing assignment = 5,000 word essay = argumentative • give a point = stand up = why you support that point • put quotes within it = give reasons = audience should believe you = your reasoning of the context

10. Assignment that has a Quick Draw • type 5000 words of revised prose • Requirements consist of primarily of exposition and argument • mostly argument • also a research component

11. What I learned

12. Differences in writing previous, present and future • Previous writings = a length requirement and a prompt • Present writing = a length requirement and a prompt • Future writing = I don’t know, my guess = a length requirement and the prompt being what I chose what the professor has chosen Similarities • All have a required length • Timeframe to work on them • Due dates Some differences • Depends on who the teacher is • what they require for your writings.

13. Things I didn’t know before • No writing program • A 5,000 word essay • Argumentative • The writing classes were recommended for students majoring in Arts or Sciences