Welcome to our FYC Wiki at USF
Dear 1101 Instructors and Students,
We would like to welcome you to ENC 1101 and 1102 and to our program's community wide wiki. We're offering you this wiki for a wide array of purposes, and our hope is that you will use this space to develop your drafts, store your research, and communicate with fellow students and teachers. In addition to these purposes, we encourage our instructors to find other innovative and productive ways to use this website.
As of now, the wiki is divided into four different sections - feel free to add more sections as you wish.
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The teachers' section is a space where our instructors can create course webpages, etc. for their students to access.
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The students' section might include webpages where students can post ideas, blog, post drafts, or peer reviews. It is essentially a place where students can create personalized webpages.
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The rubrics section includes documents for how our faculty assess student work. The rubric provides the pulse of the Department: it lets us know what all the teachers think about our students' writing abilities. While these rubrics are located in an unalterable format on another website, these versions are meant to be altered by students and instructors. Why? We'd like to know where the points of confusion are. Where are students having trouble understanding the document? In addition, if instructors have ideas about how to alter the rubric, they too are encouraged to edit it and let the program administrators know about their ideas.
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The glossary includes a list of terms that are commonly used in 1101 and 1102. As with the rubrics, these exist as static unchangable pages as well, but here we would like students to have the opportunity to actively learn by defining the terms themselves. How, for instance, would you define the word "agency" in the context of writing or rhetoric?
So to recap, this wiki is intended for use by both students and teachers in First-Year Composition. It it can be edited by any teacher or by any student. Students, please ask your instructor to help you get started creating text on this site.
Finally, there are a couple points to remember. First, we ask that you treat everyone's work on here with respect and professionalism. Second, remember that you need to log on to this site to make edits, so any text added, changed or deleted will be connected to your account.
Sincerely,
Joe Moxley and Kim Murray
Writing Program Administrators
StudentSpace - Follow this link if you would like to create your own portfolio, add to the student handbook, or store your research.
Rubrics - Follow this link to view and comment on our program's rubrics.
Glossary - Click here to help define our vocabulary terms.
How to Use This Wiki - Do you have any questions about how to use this wiki? If so, make use of this link.