Engl 797

• Day/Time: R 6:00-8:45
  
• Room: Gambrell 123
  
• Professor: Byron Hawk
  
• Email: byron.hawk [at] gmail [dot] com
  
• Office: HUO 316
  
• Office Hours: T-R 4:15-5:45
  

This course will focus on recent articles in the field's predominant journals to examine selected current issues. These works will also be discussed as models for scholarly writing. Central themes will be academic writing, genre analysis, citational networks, and academic editing. The course will ask students to analyze various rhetorical frameworks, examine journal articles for how these play out, and develop projects aimed toward a specific journal, disciplinary sub-field, and/or issue that utilizes these strategies. This could take the form of a literature review, a seminar paper revised as a journal article, a draft or a revision of an MA project, or a newly developed dissertation proposal or chapter.

The course goals in this combined seminar and workshop are:

• to better understand academic writing and the journal article as a genre,
• to introduce students to the field's primary journals,
• to experiment with ways to frame student projects and arguments,
• to produce a draft of an academic project relative to student need.

• College Composition and Communication (CCC)
• College English (CE)
• Rhetoric Review (RR)
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ)
• Philosophy and Rhetoric (PnR)
• Gallagher and DeVoss, eds, Explanation Points: Publishing in RC
• Mueller, Network Sense
• Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style
• Various rhetoric articles and chapters in PDF

I will use this basic grading scale: A (90-95), B+ (85-89), B (80-84), C+ (75-89), C (70-74). See Assignments for a breakdown of percentages. In general, participation will be critical.

Since this is a seminar + workshop, it is vital to attend and be prepared to discuss the readings, produce your own writing, and comment on the writing of others. In accordance with University policy, anyone who misses 25% of our scheduled class periods (4 of 16) will fail the course, and anyone who misses more than 10% (2 of 16) may receive a grade penalty.

I will have office hours on T and R 4:15-5:45. In some cases I may have other meetings during these times, so be sure to send me an email to confirm my availability. Otherwise, we can schedule another time that is convenient for both of us either f2f or over Zoom. I check my e-mail several times daily, so this will be the best way to contact me outside of class.

In keeping with the University of South Carolina's commitment to non-discrimination--based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation--and providing program accessibility for qualified students with disabilities, I am happy to provide reasonable accommodation through the Student Disability Resource Center. Students wishing to make such arrangements should contact their offices at LeConte Room 112A or 777-6142.