UWC Writing Consultant Seminars
ENC 5937: Assessing and Responding to Writing
Fall 2001 – Spring 2002
Please reserve these dates on your calendar. First-year consultants should plan to attend all seminars all year. Saturday meetings will be held from 9a – 5p. Friday meetings will be held from 3:15 – 4:15p. Details about each assignment will be posted to the course web page at http://reach.ucf.edu/~writing.
Saturday, 8/25/01 – Introduction to Consulting FIRST-YEAR WRITING CONSULTANTS ONLY
Saturday, 9/8/01 – Grammar & Citation Review; New Procedures ALL WRITING CONSULTANTS, ALL BUSINESS GRADERS SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR
Friday, 9/14/01 – Helping students with first-year composition papers (includes description of core assignments)
Assigned reading: “Setting the Agenda for the Next 30 Minutes” by William J. Macauley, Jr. (Rafoth 1-8), “Analyzing an Assignment” (Capossela 23-36)
Friday, 9/21/01 – Working with reluctant writers
Assigned reading: “Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers” by Muriel Harris (Rafoth 24-34)
Friday, 9/28/01 – I can’t believe I did that! Writing consultant stress (Project due today: be observed by your mentor as a writing consultant and at the front desk)
Assigned reading: “What Line? I didn’t See Any Line” by Molly Wingate (Rafoth 9-16); “An Experience to Remember” by Elizabeth Foote (Capossela 167-68)
Friday, 10/5/01 – Working with people who have disabilities (guest speakers Debbie Kamm, Marth Bruno) ALL WRITING CONSULTANTS SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR
Assigned reading: “Specific Kinds of Writers” (Capossela 92-102)
Friday, 10/12/01 – How to use Editor (Project due today: use Editor on one of your own papers and analyze the results)
Assigned reading: “Can You Proofread This?” by Beth Rapp Young (Rafoth 111-126); “Correcting Surface Errors” (Capossela 49-61)
Friday, 10/19/01 – Working with ESL writers
Assigned reading: “Recent Developments in Assisting ESL Writers” by Jennifer J. Ritter (Rafoth 102-112), “Introduction to Errors and Expectations” by Mina P. Shaughnessy (Capossela 194-204)
Friday, 10/26/01 – Organization techniques
Assigned reading: “Mapping” (Cawelti, G. Scott & Jeffrey L. Duncan, The Inventive Writer, Mayfield, 1993, 144-66), “Organizing Ideas” (Flower, Linda. Problem-Solving Strategies for Writers. 4th ed. Harcourt: 1993. 147-70), “Organizing and Developing a Draft” (Capossela 37-48)
Friday, 11/2/01 – Using outside sources
Assigned reading: “Using Other’s Words: Quoting, Summarizing, and Documenting Sources” by Mary Mortimore Dossin (Rafoth 127-34), “Originality” (Klooster, David J., and Patricia L. Bloem. The Writer’s Community. St. Martins, 1995. 136-82.)
Friday, 11/9/01 – Working with advanced writers (guest speakers Mary Ellen Gomrad, Katie Grigg) (Project due today: come to UWC as a client) ALL WRITING CONSULTANTS SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR
Assigned Reading: TBA
Friday, 11/16/01 – Consulting in unfamiliar subjects
Assigned Reading: “Writing in the Disciplines” (Capossela 85-88), “Look Back and Say ‘So What?’: The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor” by Jean Kiedaisch and Sue Dinitz (Capossela 224-233)
Friday, 11/23/01 – No seminar; Thanksgiving holiday
Friday, 11/30/01 – No seminar; have your performance appraisal conference instead
Please reserve these dates on your calendar. Friday meetings will be held from 3:15 – 4:15p. Details about each assignment will be posted to the course web page at http://reach.ucf.edu/~writing.
Friday, 1/18/02 – No seminar (Monday is a holiday)
Friday, 1/25/02 – Using Word’s advanced features ALL WRITING CONSULTANTS SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR We’ll probably meet in the Tech Writing Lab (CNH 203)
Friday, 2/1/01 – Writing abstracts / Using abstracts as revision tools
Project 4 DUE online Write an annotation of a useful writer’s resource
Readings:
Linguistics for Writers “Analyzing macrostructures” pp. 113-120, 122-123;
The Writer’s Way “Organization part II: Abstracting” pp. 126-139
Friday, 2/8/02 – Paragraph levels of generality
Readings: Linguistics for Writers, “Christensen’s Rhetoric of the Paragraph” pp. 81-93;
Harcourt Guide to Peer Tutoring “Organizing and Developing a Draft” pp. 37-48
Friday, 2/15/02 – Passive voice—how to recognize it and what it’s good for
Readings: Style, “Lesson 4—Clarity 2: Characters” pp. 71-99;
Rhetorical Grammar “Choosing verbs” pp. 125-133;
Riggle, Keith B. “Using the Active and Passive Voice Appropriately in On-The-Job Writing” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 28 (1998): 85-117;
Cornelius, Louise H. “The Passive Voice in Computer Manuals: A New Perspective.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 25 (1995): 285-301.
Friday, 2/22/02 – Improving cohesion; Known-new contract
Readings: Rhetorical Grammar “Ch. 3 Cohesion” pp. 40-59
Friday, 3/1/02 – Using Writer’s Helper—
Project 5 DUE online: Learning writer’s helper
Friday, 3/8/02 – No seminar (Monday begins spring break)
Friday, 3/15/02 – No seminar (spring break)
Friday, 3/22/02 – Improving concision
Readings: Style “Lesson Eight: Concision” pp. 159-184;
Style “Lesson Nine: Shape” pp. 185-209
Friday, 3/29/02 – Rhetorical punctuation
Readings: Dawkins, John. “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool.” College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 533-548;
Rhetorical Grammar “Punctuation: Its Purposes, Its Hierarchy, and Its Rhetorical Effects” pp. 249-259;
Style “Punctuating for Clarity and Grace” pp. 233-254
Friday, 4/5/02 – Draft workshop
Project 6 draft DUE: Bring draft of an article you will submit to Writing Lab Newsletter, Southern Discourse, Dangling Modifier
Readings: enough articles in these newsletters that you have an idea of how you should write
Friday, 4/12/02 – No seminar (work on your article)
Friday, 4/19/02 – Brief presentations on newsletter articles; past/future reflections; party
ALL WRITING CONSULTANTS SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR
Final project 6 DUE: final article for submission plus postage