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Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at 

its meeting of October 21, 1980 gives rise to the following motion: 

MOTION: "That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board 

of Governors, as set forth in S..80-140, the proposed new 

courses: 

ENGL 104-3 - Introduction to the Essay 

ENGL 371-4 - Advanced Composition: Theory and Practice." 

In discussion it was indicated that for the next year provision 

was made for another position in the Department of English in composition 

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and rhetoric, with this to be continued. The Department and Faculty wish 

to improve writing and to increase the experience in writing. There was some 

question concerning possible overlap with proposed courses in Education but 

those matters were satisfactorily resolved. The Committee was also assured 

that there is no problem of overlap between ENGL 010 and ENGL 104. The 

Library has indicated that there would not be a problem in supporting these 

courses. 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY.

MEMORANDUM 

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The attached new course proposals from the Department of English 

(ENGL 104-3 and 371-4) were approved by the Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee at its meeting of October 9, 1980. Would you place these on 

the agenda of next .CUS meeting. 

Thank you. 

S. Roberts 

Attachment 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM.

Sheila ? 

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Engl. 371 

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Would you please place the enclosed proposal forms on the agenda for 

approval at the next meeting of the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee. 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE, STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM 

Calendar Information 

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Department 

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ENGLISH 

Abbreviation Code: ENGL 

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Course Number: 

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104 ? 

Credit Hours: 3 

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Vector: .2-1-0 

l'itl.e of Course: 

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Introduction to the Essay 

Calendar Des9ription of Course: to be added under the general introduction to 100 courses 

which reads: The following four courses will examine representative works of literature, 

selected primarily from the Twentieth Century, in order to develop a critical awareness 

of the approaches to experience which modern literature reflects and the techniques it 

employs, and to explore problems of literary evaluation. Each course will involve attention 

Nature 

of

Course to compositional skills through individual meetings with a tutor. 

Prerequisites (or special Instructions): 

What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: ? 

none 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? every semester 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 81-3 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? McDaniel, Grieve, Zaslove, Rose, McGee, Candelaria, Hungerford, Miki, Lambert 

The

Objectives 

course will 

of the 

examine 

Course 

varieties 

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of non-fiction prose included in the genre of the essay. 

It will introduce students both to the uses of the essay (philosophical, critical, 

sociological, aesthetic)and to the craft of written expression in this form. Such an 

examination will provide students with models for the improvement of their own writing. 

4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

(see attached memo) 

Staff 

none 

Library ? 

none 

Audio Visual none 

Space ? 

none 

Equipment ? 

none 

S. Approval 

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Date: 

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Department Chairman 

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Dean ? 

Chairman, SCUS 

S 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

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course outline). 

Arts 78-3 

\rfLE COURSE: ? 

ENGLISH 104 - INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAY 

I.

Definition of terms: 

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the essay as a genre: fiction vs. non-fiction; journalism and 

the essay; autobiography and the essay. 

- the rhetorical dimension: persuasiveness in prose; argument; 

invention; audience; tone; strategies of style. 

Readings - A handbook of rhetoric: e.g., Dixon, Rhetoric; Winterowcl, 

Rhetoric, A Synthesis; Graves and Hodge, The Reader over 

Vrur chniil dAr

II.

Backgrounds to the modern essay: 

- the origins of the essay within the Humanist tradition. 

- the expansion of possibilities of the form in the 18th and 19th 

• centuries: the extension of audience and the popularizing of the 

form; varieties of subject matter, styles and uses. 

Readings - Samples from, for example, Montaigne, Bacon, Milton, Swift, 

Addison, Lamb, Emerson, Mill, Ruskin, taken from an 

anthology of "classic" essays-, such as Gross, The 

Examined Life: Four Centuries of the Essay; Chambers and 

King, A Book of 

Essays; 

Delaney, Counter-Tradition. 

III. The modern essay and the explosion of literacy: 

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- formal and informal essays of the 20th century. 

- writing in everyday life: the topical and the enduring. 

Readings - Selections from an anthology of modern essays: e.g., 

Kermode and Poirier, The Oxford Reader; Hall and Emblen, 

A Writer's Reader; New and Messenger, Active Voice; 

and selections from journals, magazines, newspapers. 

IV.

The individual voice: 

- a more extended look at how one or two major modern writers 

shape the essay to his or her purposes. 

Readings - A collection of essays: e.g., Orwell, Shooting an 

Elephant and Other Essiys; Woolf, The Death of the Moth 

and Other Essays; White, One Man's Meat; Mailer, 

Cannibals and Christians; Woodcock, A Rejection of 

Politics and Other Essays. 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM 

Calendar Information 

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Department 

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ENGLISH 

Abbreviation Code: ENGL 

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Course Number: 371 

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Credit Hours: 

4

Vector: 2-0 

Title of Course: Advanced Composition: The0y and Practice 

Calendar Description of Course: The study of expository writing which examines theoretical 

approaches to composition and relates these to the practice, analysis and improvement 

of the student's writing. 

Nature of Course 

Prerequisites (or special instructions):Same as all 300 

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English courses: 

credit or standing in any two of Engl. 101, 102, 103and in any one of ENGL. 204, 205, 206. 

What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? At least once in every three semesters 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 81-3 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? 

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McDaniel, Grieve, Rose, McGee, Hungerford, Candelaria, Kearns, Lambert, 

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Sullivan. 

Objectives of the Course 

To study the composing process from differnt theoretical perspectives in order to give 

students a basis for critical reflection on their own writing. 

4.

Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

(see attached memo) 

Staff ? 

none 

Library ? 

none 

Audio Visual none 

Space ? 

none 

Equipment ? 

none 

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Approval 

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Chairman 

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S 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

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course outline). 

Arts 78-3 

ENGLISH 

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Advanced Compos i t ion: Theory and Practice 

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Hit, historical devel Opilleit of rhetoric 

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tradition; the basics of classical rhetorical theory? 

- rhetoric fioi the middle aCjes through the 19th century 

POSSIBLE TEXTS: Bald#in, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic, Medieval Rhetoric i?d 

Poetic; Corbett, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Stuint; 

Wi rite rowd, RhetorSvis 

II. Molcrn Theories of Rhetoric and* Compositioll: 

the 'new rhetoric" 

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se tieory and theories of the composing process 

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POSSIBLE E;S: I.A. Richards, The 

_Philospof Rhetoric; Brooks and 

Warren, 

Modern Rhetoric; Burke, Counter-Statement; 

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nneavy, A 

of Discourse; Cooper and Odell., eds., Research on Cortposinn: 

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Application - 

logic, st±. 

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POSSIBLE TTi: 

writing process: invention, writing, revision: 

and form 

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Elbow, Writipgwj thou tTeachers; Winterowd, Rhetoric and 

Writing. 

IV- Evaluation and Criticism: 

the proh1e,'-s of rhetoric nd the morality of persuasion 

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rhetoric arid literature 

POSSIBLE TEXTS: Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives; Cooper and Odell, eds., 

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a1uatnoritf; Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction. 

- A seminar presentation on history, theory, or 

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pedagogy 

- 2 short papers, the second to serve as draft for the tern paper 

- A term paper (10-15 pages) 

NO FINAL 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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and English 371. 

I've reviewed the proposals for these two new courses. The Library 

will have no problem supporting them, especially since we've reserved 

a portion of this year's budget to buy material on rhetoric. 

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c. S. Roberts, Dean of Arts Office. 

OCT

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM.

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Mr.. Harry Evans 

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Roger Blackman 

Associate Dean 

Registrar.......................................................... 

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Faculty of Arts 

FACULTY REQUIREMENTS: 

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ENGL ? 

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104 and  

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371 ? 

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November 18, 1980 

A tenure-track position has been authorized to cover the 

teaching of these two courses. While it is a new position, it 

does not represent an addition to the Faculty complement in the 

Department of English. Because of the retirement of a Lecturer 

currently teaching in English 010, and the commitment of regular 

faculty members to teach in this course, the Lecturer position 

was not renewed and a tenure track position was approved. The 

person hired to this position will be committed to teaching 

these two courses, as well as taking an active role in the 

writing program of the Department. 

R. 'Blackman 

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