ENWR 380: Academic and Professional Writing
Studio XXX: Day Time Room
Your Name, Studio Instructor
email:
office hours:
Materials
? LRS lecture packets (distributed weekly; buy voucher at UVa Bookstore’s textbook office, between January 23rd and February 2nd, 9:00-4:30 M-F.)
? one folder or binder for your portfolio
? a large-capacity copy card
? optional: a grammar handbook, such as Lynn Troyka’s Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers or Andrea Lunsford’s The St. Martin ’ s Handbook.
Requirements
Attendance : The studios are the heart of this course, and you cannot pass the course without consistently attending them. You are permitted to miss one studio session without penalty; a second absence will lower your final grade by two-thirds of a letter.
Participation : The studio component of this course has been designed to function as a writing workshop, and its success depends on each student’s preparation to engage in class discussions and to offer thoughtful, detailed critiques of his/her classmates’ written work. You are expected to come to class having thoroughly read your classmates’ work. Of course, your own work must also always be completed and submitted in time for your classmates and lector to read it before class meets (please see the submission procedure outlined below).
Written Work : Writing of some sort – usually work relating to your individual project – will be due each week. As part of your project proposal, you will propose a schedule of work to be delivered each week. Occasionally, assignments may be handed out during the weekly studios, and these assignments will be due by a regular weekly deadline to be negotiated in the first studio session. Neither late project installments nor late assignments will be accepted. Be sure always to bring a copy of your own work and the copies of your classmates’ work to studio with you.
By submitting a document that includes the phrase “Wild Card,” you alert your instructor and classmates that you will not be turning in a weekly assignment. You may use one Wild Card this semester. However, you may not submit a Wild Card on a week when your work is scheduled to be featured in studio workshops. Also, you must submit a Wild Card by the studio’s regular deadline in order for it to count.
Your written work in this course will be collected in a mid-term portfolio and a final portfolio. These portfolios will consist of what you consider to be the best work you’ve produced to date, along with your self-analysis of your work’s strengths and opportunities for improvement. The portfolio may include re-worked versions of exercises, etc. but will consist mainly of documents produced as part of the project(s) on which you will have worked throughout the semester. In preparation for your portfolio, please save all the work you do for the course.
Lecture Review Exercises : At least twice, you will lead the studio in a short (5-10 minute) exercise of your own design. This exercise will reinforce or extend a point made in the previous week’s lecture.
Editorial Responses : You will regularly lead workshops reviewing your classmates’ writing. At least twice during the semester, you will submit for a grade a copy of your formal written editorial feedback to a classmate’s writing.
Important Dates
· Project idea templates (x3) due in studio meeting #2.
· Proposals due in studio meeting #3.
· Proposal revision (if necessary) due in studio meeting #4
· Mid-term portfolio due either studio #5, #6, or #7 (TBA)
· Final portfolio due by the last lecture, 12/1
Grades
· 5% Lecture review exercises
· 10% Formal editing responses to peers’ writing
· 10% Participation in workshop and class discussions
· 15% Mid-term portfolio (including self-assessment)
· 60% Final portfolio (including self-assessment)
For all graded components of this course (including participation), I will approach your work with the assumption that it is of average (that is, of about B to B -) quality. As the merits or rough edges in the work provide supporting evidence, your grade will move up or down accordingly.
History suggests that the median grade in this section will be between a B and a B+, although given the small section size, the actual final grade distributions may vary.