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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

Paul M. Dombrowski

Professor

pdombrow@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: None in Summer 2008.
Campus Location: CNH 417F
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A swell guy.

Education

Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1990)
Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, Ph.D. Program, one year only. from Indiana University (1971)
M.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University (1987)
M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Pennsylvania State University (1984)

Research Interests

Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

Recent Research Activities

1. Working on an invited article about practicing "safe" technical communication, focussing on the rhetorically shifting and shifty meaning of key technical concepts such as "safe", "flightworthy", "practical", and "radiation". 2. Working on an article on the rhetorical techniques used in efforts to enlighten the public consciousness on the hazards of dihydrogen monoxide. 3. Working on a book manuscript on the rhetorical and ethical dimensions of the discourse of Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union and Ernest Haeckel in early twentieth-century Europe as they challenged prevailing notions of what science is, can be, or should be, and relating these studies to contemporary anti-science movements in both the popular and the academic realms.

Awards

1. Best Article of the Past Fifty Years of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, October 2007.

2. Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1996-2008.

3. Selected to serve as UCF Provost's Senior Faculty Fellow, 2004-05.

Activities

Raising two teenage daughters.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
11068	ENC1102H	HONORS FRESHMAN COMPOSITION II	Face2Face	Tu,Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
No Description Available
21388	ENC3250	PROFESSIONAL WRITING	WWW	-
ENC 3250 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Professional Writing: PR: Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 1102, junior standing, and 12 upper division hours in the student’s major. Major elements of professional writing with emphasis on composition of reports, proposals, letters, and memos.