What it means to be a writing major Courses in the ENGW core American Grammar Revising and Editing Text and Discourse Analysis Document Design Technical and Business Communication 2 courses in Theories of RhetoricComposition ID: 341357
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Messing around under the hood
What it means to be a writing majorSlide2
Courses in the ENGW core
American
Grammar
Revising and Editing
Text and Discourse Analysis
Document Design
Technical and Business Communication
2 courses in Theories of Rhetoric/Composition
Writing Internship or Teaching InternshipSlide3
American Grammar
Gives you the terminology and a strong sense of phrase and sentence structure so that you can see many options for expressing meaning and choose the pace and voice you want, the level of formality and creativity appropriate to your audience and purpose.Slide4
Revising and Editing
Reinforces correct usage and introduces you to various styles used in professional writing situations
Encourages global revision in light of audience and purposeSlide5
Revising wordy sentences
From John Lanham’s
Revising Prose
The history of new regulatory provisions in the Department of Agriculture is that there is generally an immediate resistance to them by employees.Slide6
The history
of
new regulatory provisions
in
the Department of Agriculture
is
that
there is
generally an immediate
resistance
to
them
by
employees.Slide7
Department of Agriculture employees usually resist new regulations.Slide8
Developing style and voice
From
David Foster Wallace’s editor’s introduction to
Best American Essays 2007
.
Jo Ann Beard’s “Werner,” the collection’s first essay, is an unambiguously great piece—exquisitely written and suffused with a sort of
merciless compassion
. . . And yet Beard’s and Orozco’s pieces are
so arresting and alive and good
that they end up being salient even if one is working as a guest essay editor and
sitting there reading a dozen Xeroxed pieces in a row before them and then another dozen in a row
after them
--Slide9
—essays on everything
from
memory
and
surfing
and
Esperanto
to
childhood
and
mortality
and
Wikipedia,
on
depression
and
translation
and
emptiness
and
James Brown, Mozart, prison, poker, trees,
anorgasmia
, color, homelessness, stalking, fellatio, ferns, fathers, grandmothers, falconry, grief, film comedy—Slide10
—a rate of
consumption
which tends to level everything out into
an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection
that becomes
both numbing and euphoric
, a kind of Total Noise that’s also the sound of our U.S. culture right now,
a culture and volume of info and spin and rhetoric and context
that I know I’m not alone in finding too much to even absorb, much less to try to make sense of or organize into any kind of triage of saliency or value.Slide11
Text and Discourse Analysis
What are the rhetorical constraints writers face in various situations, like having to write an excuse or an apology?
What makes poetry different than other kinds of texts?
How do political ads persuade us?Slide12
Document Design
Basic design principles for print and online documents.
How to make almost unreadable documents into very readable ones. Slide13
Internships
2011-2012
Austin Board of Realtors
Public Strategies, Inc.
Community Impact
Newspaper
RxDonate
DMX
(
Austin PR firm
) Ronald McDonald House
Diverse
Austin Slated
El
Buen
Samaritano
SXSW Music and Interactive Festival
Fox Sports/Scout.com
Intergalactic Nemesis
Giant
Noise (PR
) (multi-media production)
Leighelena
Lonestar
Rollergirls
(PR
) Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Operation
Smile Texas Council on Family Violence
Organizing
for America (project of the DNC)
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Hands-on learning in classes
American College of Music
Kokofit
Club
Any Baby Can
Latinitas
Art Alliance Austin Mary Lee Foundation
Austin Bat Cave Red Page Ministries
Baaware
(Biliary Atresia awareness) Jewish Students Center
Cabo
Bob’s Rude Mechanicals
Capitol School of Austin
Skillpoint
Alliance
Casa
Marianella
Snackbox
PR
Comfort the Children International Sugar Tooth Bakery
Equality Texas Sydney Lanier High School
Front Steps Austin Texas Charter Schools Assn.
Hill Country Hill
Tribers
Travis Heights Elementary
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Writing Specializations
Three, soon-to-be four, specializations for Writing majors:
Professional Writing
Creative Writing
General Writing
Journalism—coming next yearSlide16
Professional Writing Electives
Principles of Style
Writing for Advertising/PR/Publicity
Media Writing
Writing Online
Print Publication
Advanced Editing
Magazine Writing
Grant Writing
Legal WritingSlide17
Creative Writing Electives
Poetry Workshops
Fiction Workshops
Playwriting/Screenwriting Workshops
Creative Non-Fiction Workshops
English literature (ENGL) courses
Magazine WritingSlide18
General Writing
Mix and match electives, including Journalism classesSlide19
Journalism
Journalism I
Copy Editing
Interactive Media Design
Online Journalism
Broadcast Journalism
Entertainment Journalism
Opinion Writing
Sports Journalism for Broadcast
Advanced Newswriting and ReportingSlide20
Extra-curricular Activities
Write for the newspaper (
Hilltop Views
)
Get a job as a newspaper editor
Be on the editorial board for the
Sorin
Oak
or
Arete
Join Sigma Tau Delta, an international English Honor Society
Join an informal writing group