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Building: CNH301

P.O. Box 161346
Orlando, FL 32816-1346

407-823-2212
Fax: 407-823-3300
english@mail.ucf.edu

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Composition
407-823-5417
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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

Elizabeth Wardle

Director of Writing Programs
Associate Professor

ewardle@mail.ucf.edu
407-823-5416
Campus Location: CNH301C

Previously Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Programs at University of Dayton, 2003-2008

Education

Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Professional Communication from Iowa State University (2003)
M.A. in English from University of Louisville (1999)
B.A. in Philosophy from University of Louisville (1994)

Research Interests

Scholoarship of Writing Program Administration
first-year composition as Writing Studies
disciplinarity of Writing Studies
genre theory
activity theory
transfer of writing-related knowledge

Recent Research Activities

I am currently working on a writing-about-writing textbook titled I am a Writer in the World with Doug Downs for Bedford/St Martins. I am also conducting assessment of writing-about-writing and research as genuine inquiry curricula in ENC 1101 and 1102, as well as looking at the impact of small class size on writing instruction.

Awards

NCTE 2006 Best Article of the Year in Teaching of Technical and Scientific Communication for "Building Context: Using Activity Theory to Teach About Genre in Multi-Major Professional Communication Courses." With Donna Kain. Technical Communication Quarterly 14.1. (2005): 113-139.
University of Dayton Learning Teaching Center Teaching Innovation Grant, 2007-2008 ($5,100): "Student Empirical Research About Language, Literacy, and Writing: Improving Engagement for First-Year Students." With Amy Krug.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
10719	ENC1102	COMPOSITION II	Face2Face	Tu,Th 3:00PM - 4:20PM
No Description Available
12013	ENC5705	THEORY & PRACTICE IN COMP	Face2Face	Tu,Th 6:00PM - 7:15PM
ENC 5705: Theory & Practice in Composition Spring 2010 Dr Elizabeth Wardle This course provides an introduction to the theories and issues that inform the discipline commonly known as Rhetoric and Composition. The course is intended to be a survey of movements and topics important to the discipline of Composition. Many--but not all--of these relate to writing instruction. Course topics include: -History of Rhetoric & Composition; -Writers, Writing, and Revision; -Genre theory; -Reading; -Matters of identity, ideology, and language -Transfer of writing-related knowledge. This course is appropriate for anyone who expects to teach writing and/or who is interested in the study of writing. This course is required for an English GTAship at UCF.