UNF Writing Program and Center Linda Howell Director

UNF Writing Program and Center Linda Howell, Director UNF Writing Program David Mac. Kinnon, Coordinator UNF Writing Center

What We Wanted to Achieve UNF Writing Program initiatives seek to ü prepare students for workplace, real-world writing; ü provide cost effective approaches to teaching writing; ü use self-directed and self-paced approaches to engage students in writing courses; ü engage departments and programs across the university in conversations and instruction that address student writing from first year to last; and ü build a Writing Center connected to the teaching and research mission of the Writing Program.

What We Have Achieved ü Replaced our literature-based General Education writing courses with discipline specific writing courses. ü Developed leading edge assessment rubrics, as characterized by our external reviewer and writing program scholar. ü Designed and carried out a large-scale assessment of student writing in Coggin College of Business. ü Collaborating with the College of Education to embed writing in required courses in their ASL/Deaf Studies program. ü Established a Writing Center to serve the entire university community.

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Our DL Innovation with ENC 1101 ü Combined a traditional wraparound space (writing center) with writing curriculum ü Capped at 132 students (six traditional sections) ü One instructor with 2 dedicated Graduate Assessment Assistants ü Self-paced, self-directed (in part) ü Five required sessions with Writing Center Instructor/Graduate Assessment Assistant (in person or online)

What Students Achieved Students improved their rubric level scores on grammatical accuracy Final Summary: Mechanics 70 70 60 60 Number of students First Summary: Mechanics 50 40 30 20 10 0 Mechanics 0 20 1 14 2 13 3 14 4 25 50 40 30 20 10 0 Mechanics 0 2 1 3 2 7 3 12 4 62

What Students Achieved Across the board, students improved on all rubrics. Improvement Between First and Last Summary Rubric Scores 2 1. 8 Rubric Improvement 1. 6 1. 4 1. 2 1 0. 8 0. 6 0. 4 0. 2 0 Level of Improvement Coherence 0. 63953488372093 Mechanics 1. 38372093023256 Style 0. 709302325581395 Summary 1. 08139534883721

What the Course Achieved ü The course is highly cost effective with one instructor and two GTAs replacing six instructors. ü The instructor who piloted this course received extremely high student ratings (4. 51 out of 5. 0 on “overall rating of instructor”) from students whose average course grade was 2. 27.

What Next? ü Summer 2014 – ENC 1143 DL pilot with 135 students ü Fall 2014/Spring 2015 – ENC 1101 and ENC 1143 DL sections based on this model ü Transferring ENC 2463: Writing for Engineers and ENC 2210: Technical Writing to this model for institution in Spring 2015.

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REVIEW and REVISE: Curriculum Changes 1983 -1995 Four-Course GW Sequence: 1: ENC 1101 2: ENC 1102 3: LIT 2110 4: LIT 2932 1995 -2008 Four-Course GW Sequence: 1: ENC 1101 2. ENC 1102 Dropped 3: LIT 2110 2000 4: LIT 2932 2008 -2010 Three-Course GW Sequence: 1: ENC 1101 2: LIT 2000 3: LIT 2932 ENC 2 xxx or CRW 2 xxx 2011 -2012 -2013 Three-Course GW Sequence with Menu of Sequence with Options for the Third Expanded Menu of Course, the Addition of Options for the Third a Course for Students Course and the Not Yet Ready for ENC Anticipated Addition of 1101, and Two DL and Workplace Curricular Proposals: Readiness Options: 1: ENC 1101 1 or 2: ENC 1101 2: LIT 2000 1 or 2: LIT 2000 3: ENC 2 xxx or ENC 114 x CRW 2 xxx 3: ENC 2 xxx, CRW 2 xxx, or ENC 1130 ENC 3250 UNF/English ENC 1130 Workplace Readiness Writing Proposal DL Writing Curriculum Initiative DL Writing Curriculum Begins Proposal 2013 -2014 Three-Course GW Sequence. Offer DL sections for ENC 1101, ENC 1143, ENC 2210, ENC 2460, and ENC 3250 Develop an ESL course. Pilot ENC 1101 Model

REVIEW and REVISE: Current UNF General Education Writing Curriculum Required Choose 1: ENC 1101 ENC 1143 ENC 1102 ENC 2210 ENC 2441 ENC 2442 ENC 2443 ENC 2450 ENC 2451 ENC 2460 ENC 2461 ENC 2462 ENC 2463 ENC 2930 ENC 3250 *LIT 2932 *CRW 2000 *CRW 2100 *CRW 2201 *CRW 2300 *CRW 2400 *CRW 2600 **CRW 2930 (GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing (GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Narrative (GW) Informed Writer (GW) Technical Writing (GW) Writing Topics: Fine Arts (GW) Writing Topics: Humanities (GW) Writing Topics: Literature (GW) Writing Topics: Natural Science (GW) Writing Topics: Health (GW) Writing Topics: Business (GW) Writing Topics: Social Science (GW) Writing Topics: Education (GW) Writing Topics: Engineering (GW) Special Topics in Composition (GW) Professional Communication (GW) Special Topics in Literature (GW) Introduction to Creative Writing (GW) Introduction to Fiction Writing (GW) Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction Writing (GW) Introduction to Poetry Writing (GW) Introduction to Playwriting (GW) Introduction to Screen Writing (GW) Special Topics in Creative Writing

REVIEW and REVISE: UNF Writes Self-Talk Rubrics.

Challenges for UNF Writing ü Cultural/Economic: Students can’t write. ü Disciplinary: What do we mean when we say “students can’t write”? ü Institutional: Increasing pressure to offer Distance Learning courses and decreasing enrollments due to transfer credit from high school. Also the need to address accreditation concerns.

Writing Program – As It Stands ü Locally developed writing curriculum and assessment ü Directed Self-Placement exam ü Outreach to other disciplines ü New Writing Center ü Distance Learning pilot: ENC 1101

What the UNF Writing Center Will Look Like We are here. Writing Center Consultant Graduate Assistants and Part-Time Faculty Undergraduate Peer Mentors and Writing Center Interns