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First-year Composition News First-year Composition Textbook Selection Committee Makes its Choices The First-year Composition Textbook Selection Committee has selected new textbooks for next year’s FYC classes, and its recommendations for how they be incorporated into course syllabi are as follows:
Thanks to the Selection Committees who worked hard to choose these texts! The committee also recommends that everyone, no matter what you expect to teach, get familiar with the new 1101 text, Writing Analytically. Desk copies are expected to arrive early next week. As the title suggests, Writing Analytically (WA) is devoted to analysis, and, thus, provides a useful teaching framework for all three of our composition courses—1101, 1102, and 1102M. WA is a compact text without readings, rich in writing lessons and assignments, meant to be applied to courses on a wide range of topics, using many types of “texts.” The committee’s hope is that using WA will better support our FYC Programs’ increasingly wide variety of “special” sections –Special Topics, Learning Communities, Franklin Residential Community, ESOL, React classes, etc. WA will also facilitate the many “regular” sections now typically posting reading supplements in <emma> and teaching visual, multimedia, and cultural “texts.” A FYC syllabus development group of TAs and Instructors has just started working to create several new sample syllabi and a resource base of readings, links, and texts available on <emma> to support teaching with the new textbooks. We’ll be working on these into July. We welcome more participants! If you are interested, email Deborah Miller (dlmiller@uga.edu).
Outstanding Teaching Assistants Six English Department graduate students and First-year Composition teachers have been selected to receive the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. They are Patrick Denker, Steven Florczyk, Nathan Gilmour, Erin Presley, Scott Reed, and Robin Wharton.
Barnett Awards Winners Four First-year Composition students have been selected for the 2008-2009 Barnett Essay Awards. Stephanie Ryals has won the ENGL 1101 award for her essay, "Crime and Punishment--Death by Association: The Jeffrey Wood Case," which she wrote for Ms. Sara Amis. Brianna Randall won the ENGL 1102 award for "A 'Jaunty Salute': Jordan Baker's Role as the Modern Woman of the 1920s in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby," written for Nathan Camp. And there are two winners for the ENGL 1102M award. Savannah Willerton has won for "When Colors Clash," which she wrote for Allison Lenhardt, and Ellen Davis has won for "James Wheldon Johnson's 'The Creation' and the Biblical Creation: A Comparison", which she wrote for Elizabete Vasconcelos.
Michael G. Moran ePortfolio Award Winners Three First-year Composition students have been selected to be among the first to receive the Michael G. Moran ePortfolio Award. Jessica Lundy won the ENGL 1101 award for her portfolio work in Sara Amis's class. Charlotte Byram won for her ENGL 1102 portfolio, and Anita George won for her ENGL 1102M portfolio. Both Bryan and George were taught by Mary Anne O'Neal. |