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Guidelines ENC1101 ENC1102 Writing Contest Winning Essays

Degrees Creative Writing Track Literature Track Technical Writing Track Minors Creative Writing Linguistics Literature Technical Writing and Editing Writing Honors Honors In The Major

Degrees Texts and Technology, Ph.D. Creative Writing, M.F.A. Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, M.A. Technical Communication, M.A. Certificates Professional Writing

Research Faulkner Journal Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing Literary Florida Review Cypress Dome

Professional Literary Arts Parnership Student Cypress Dome Society Sigma Tau Delta Future Technical Communicators Engineers Without Borders

Student Faculty

Events Highlights

Martha Marinara

Associate Professor

mmarinar@mail.ucf.edu
Campus Location: CNH 411 I or TA 420

Education

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Lehigh University (1993)

Research Interests

Queer Theory and Composition
Gender Studies and Feminist Theories
Fiction
Poetry

Selected Publications

Books

Forthcoming An Informed Choice: A Handbook for Writers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008 (forthcoming October 2009).
Forthcoming Writing Outside the Lines: Stories of Literacy (with Peggy Ellington). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Articles/Essays

“Transforming Assessment: University of Central Florida, General Education Case Study” (with Kristina Tollefson). Case Studies in Assessing General Education. Marilyn Bresciani, editor. Boston, MA: Anker Publishing, 2007: 186-200.
“Making Sense of the ‘loose baggy monster’: Assessing Learning in a GEP Program is a Whale of a Task.” The Journal of General Education 53.1 (2004): 1-19.
“Cartography and Adoption: Identity and Difference Beyond the Politics of the Comfort Zone.” Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. 25.2 (April-June 2003): 139-152.
“Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality” (with Michelle Gibson and Deborah Meem). The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication 52.1 (September 2000) : 69-95. Reprinted in Feminism and Composition: Critical Sourcebook. Kirsch, Gesa E. et all, editors. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 2003: 466-487. Reprinted in Teaching Composition: Background Readings 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2007: 536-558.
“When Working Class Students 'Do' the Academy: How We Negotiate With Alternative Literacies.” Journal of Basic Writing 16.2 (Fall 1997): 3-16.

Creative Publications

Forthcoming “Sunday Afternoon at the Museum of Natural History.” Broken Bridge Review, forthcoming in Fall 2008.
“Eve’s Garden” and “Her Chinese Robe.” White Pelican Review. (Spring 2008): 9, 41.
“Reflection in a Well House, Tuscumbia, Alabama, 1987.” White Ink. Rishma Dunlop, Editor. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2007: 300.
Street Angel. Waterbury, CT: Fine Tooth Press, 2006.
“Pumpkin Picking.” The Alembic (Spring 2003): 27.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
11107	CRW3010H	HONORS CREATIVE WRITING	Face2Face	M,W,F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
CRW 3010H CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Honors Creative Writing: PR: Honors GEP completion and permission of Honors. Theory and techniques of literary genres with honors level content; practice and critique of original writing by peers and critical reading of established authors. During this course, you will be introduced to the process and techniques of creative writing. You will be expected to read and write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama. There will be frequent short writing exercises focusing on specific issues of craft such as structure, metaphor, image, dialogue, and character development. Some class time will be devoted to learning how to workshop, to constructively critique the work of others, in small groups and with the whole class. Revisionreworking your original draftsis crucial. You will also be asked to collect a small binder of writing that you admire.
21390	ENC6306	PERSUASIVE WRITING	WWW	-
ENC 5306 Persuasive Writing Spring 2010 Aristotle, one of the earliest rhetorical theorists and teachers, defined rhetoric as the ability to find the “available means of persuasion” in a given context. During this fifteen week, web-based graduate seminar in persuasive writing, we will investigate the various components that go into persuading a particular group at a particular time to do/feel/think/believe a particular thing. In order to study rhetorical concepts and methods, we will read and discuss relevant theory, analyze public texts, and generate our own texts. The public texts we will work with focus on magical rhetoric and include texts on Disney, Madonna, and Oprah. Expect considerable amounts of reading and writing.