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James Sledd’s motion, submitted 19 November 1982, classified a major legislation and put before the Faculty Senate at the 13 December 1982 meeting.
Sledd proposes that students be given the option of taking a second-semester, first-year writing course instead of E 346K. He offers six criticisms of the recently approved English requirement, and four specific justifications for this motion.
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Kelley passes along a report from President Flawn on the University's approval for E 346K courses to Moldenhauer, Ruszkiewicz, Hairston, and Kinneavy.
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A ten-page version of the proposals for the revision of freshman composition and other undergraduate lower division courses
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Extensive meeting minutes discussing proposals related to earlier March 1980 recommendations from various English Department committees regarding curriculum.
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Content Committee Recommendations description of the 9 hour General Education requirement in English.
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Spirduso article, "From the Faculty Senate." _OnCampus_ 6-31 May 1985. Brief paragraph on E 346K position statements by the Faculty Senate.
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Rossman "Letter to the Editor" in _Austin Writer_, June 1985, responds to Jennifer Evans remarks about E 346K in an earlier issue of the same publication.
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Neff, Nancy. "New Education Initiative Provides One-on-One Assistance to University Students Seeking Improved Writing Skills." _OnCampus_ 25 October 1993, pp. 1-2.
An article about the newly opened Undergraduate Writing Center in Parlin 102. The DRC, the DWRL, and the SWC initiative are also discussed.
Faigley, Kimball, and Slatin are quoted.
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Section of larger report indicating that the Format I team did not report and refers readers to Team 6 Report.
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Extensive minutes on proposals regarding freshman composition and other classes in the required English sequence.
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DeLay, Jennifer. "Writing Right: Keep Focus on Composition." _Daily Texan_ 23 March 1994, p. 4.
Jennifer Delay (Associate Editor) praises 12 of the recommendations recently put before the faculty senate but raises questions about the suggestion that all classes include more writing.
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Report of the requirements team dealing with undergraduate graduation requirements. The committee presents three recommendations: retain 9 hour English graduation requirement, experiment with balance and sequence of courses, and consult other departments in order to establish writing courses geared toward writing in other disciplines (WAC/WID).
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Duplicate of Content Committee recommendations regarding Plan 1, to include E 306.
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Lester Faigely's substantive proposal for how to revise the 3 course English sequence.
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The Daily Texan presents side-by-side two opinion pieces on undergraduate writing instruction. Beer, who left the English department to coordinate technical communication for Engineering, asserts that literature professors are unwilling and unable to teach technical writing, and that departments that require technical writing deserve better.
Carton suggests the creation of the DRC was an empty public relations move that will not substantively improve first-year writing. To do so, he suggests, would involve a serious institutional commitment including an end to E 306 exemptions and higher writing standards outside of the English department.
Beer, David. "Literary Specialists Unable to Handle Technical Writing." _Daily Texan_ 4 November 1992.
Carton, Evan. "New Division has Nothing to Offer Writing Education." _Daily Texan_ 4 November 1992.
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Sledd's letter to the editor accuses the University Council of misrepresenting his arguments and of selling out undergraduate students.
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Offers a detailed summary of Sledd's argument to the council, alongside Kinneavy's opposition and Megaw's support. Also includes a motion to postpone the vote due to the fact that most student representatives had no chance to read Sledd's memo.
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Beyer, Lisa. "Bringing Back Basics." _Daily Texan_ 18 April 1983, p. 4
Beyer praises the Vick Report recommendations, with special emphasis on the new writing requirement.
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Fisher, Laura & Patty Merren. "Vick Report Adds Requirements." _Daily Texan_ 13 April 1983, p. 1
This article--the third in a series--reports that the new requirements in the core curriculum will adversely affect degree programs that already have few electives, such as Engineering. President Peter Flawn and James Vick are quoted.
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Fisher, Laura & Patty Merren. "Vick Recommendations Being Met by Colleges." _Daily Texan_ 12 April 1983, p. 1
This article explains that three Fine Arts programs are meeting the requirements laid out in the Vick Report. James Vick and President Peter Flawn are quoted.
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Fisher reports the controversy over the new plan for the English Department: Sledd quoted at length criticizing the new curriculum as a disservice to freshman and sophomores; Associate Dean Weinstock calls Sledd alternate plan 'ridiculous'; Kinneavy and Kruppa point out logistical problems with Sledd's plan; and two students quoted supporting Sledd's plan.
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This article discusses calls to reinstate E346K.
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This satirical article, thanks the department, in error-ridden grammar, for dropping E346K.
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This article discusses the possibility of E 346 K being dropped by the English department due to a lack of funds required in order to staff lecturers.
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Smith, Kurt. "University Doesn't Care." Daily Texan, 25 March 1985, p. 3. Describes university conduct on E 346K as a betrayal of students.