ENG 3010

1. ENG 3010 & The Wayne Writer

2. Course Objectives • Four common learning objectives • Writing across the curriculum approach • with material from writing about writing • Reflective argument and portfolio project

3. Course Outline • Six major segments: • What is academic writing (introduction) • Genres and disciplines • Research and writing • Writing and rewriting • Multimodal discourse • Reflections

4. Using the Wayne Writer • Jumped around in the text for assignments • Used for vocabulary and background • Particularly useful with students who had not taken 1020 (transfer students) • Both assigned and supplemental reading • Used for discussions of genres and assignments

5. Adjustments • Did not use the writing exercises • Did suggest applying the questions asked to other types of writing • Did not use most of the example essays • Both seemed more useful for 1020 classes • Supplemented with other material

6. Example – Genres & Disciplines • Chapter 8 253-263; 264-265 • Objectives, Scenes, Situations in Coll & Univ • Academic Genres: Syllabus & writing assignment • Chapter 1 23-27; Ch 8 285-294 • Putting scene, situation and genre back together • Situation in writing courses • Chapter 2 48-57; 58-66 • Using genres to read scenes of writing

7. In class discussions • Examples of syllabi from different majors • provided by students • Examined them • as genres themselves • might have been done in 1020 • for the genres of writing that they required • this moves towards the discipline specific genres

8. Finally • Students generally liked the readings • Found them accessible • New content for some of them • Reminders for others

9. In their own words • “What surprised me the most about the Wayne Writer was how it made you look at writing and every day interactions in such a different and more detailed light.” • “It was a refresher on how to approach writing an essay on topic.”