UNF Writing Program and
Center
Linda Howell, Director
UNF Writing Program
David MacKinnon, Coordinator
UNF Writing Center
What We Wanted to Achieve
UNF Writing Program initiatives seek to
 prepare students for workplace, real-world writing;
 provide cost effective approaches to teaching writing;
 use self-directed and self-paced approaches to engage students in
writing courses;
 engage departments and programs across the university in
conversations and instruction that address student writing from first
year to last; and
 build a Writing Center connected to the teaching and research
mission of the Writing Program.
What We Have Achieved
 Replaced our literature-based General Education writing
courses with discipline specific writing courses.
 Developed leading edge assessment rubrics, as characterized
by our external reviewer and writing program scholar.
 Designed and carried out a large-scale assessment of student
writing in Coggin College of Business.
 Collaborating with the College of Education to embed writing
in required courses in their ASL/Deaf Studies program.
 Established a Writing Center to serve the entire university
community.
How We Have Done It
Review
Revise
Build
Our DL Innovation with ENC 1101
 Combined a traditional wraparound space (writing center)
with writing curriculum
 Capped at 132 students (six traditional sections)
 One instructor with 2 dedicated Graduate Assessment
Assistants
 Self-paced, self-directed (in part)
 Five required sessions with Writing Center Instructor/Graduate
Assessment Assistant (in person or online)
What Students Achieved
Students improved their rubric level scores on
grammatical accuracy
Final Summary: Mechanics
70
70
60
60
Number of students
Number of students
First Summary: Mechanics
50
40
30
20
10
0
Mechanics
0
1
2
3
4
20
14
13
14
25
50
40
30
20
10
0
Mechanics
0
1
2
3
4
2
3
7
12
62
What Students Achieved
Across the board, students improved on all rubrics.
Improvement Between First and Last Summary
Rubric Scores
2
1.8
Rubric Improvement
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Level of Improvement
Coherence
Mechanics
Style
Summary
0.639534884
1.38372093
0.709302326
1.081395349
What the Course Achieved
 The course is highly cost effective with one instructor
and two GTAs replacing six instructors.
 The instructor who piloted this course received
extremely high student ratings (4.51 out of 5.0 on
“overall rating of instructor”) from students whose
average course grade was 2.27.
What Next?
 Summer 2014 – ENC 1143 DL pilot with 135 students
 Fall 2014/Spring 2015 – ENC 1101 and ENC 1143 DL
sections based on this model
 Transferring ENC 2463: Writing for Engineers and ENC
2210: Technical Writing to this model for institution in
Spring 2015.
Questions?
Appendix Information, if
necessary
REVIEW and REVISE:
Curriculum Changes
1983-1995
1995-2008
2008-2010
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
Four-Course GW Sequence:
Four-Course GW
Sequence:
Three-Course GW
Sequence:
1: ENC 1101
2: LIT 2000
3: LIT 2932 
ENC 2xxx or
CRW 2xxx
Three-Course GW
Sequence with
Expanded Menu of
Options for the Third
Course and the
Anticipated Addition
of DL and Workplace
Readiness Options:
Three-Course GW Sequence.
1: ENC 1101
2. ENC 1102 Dropped
3: LIT 2110  2000
4: LIT 2932
Three-Course GW
Sequence with Menu of
Options for the Third
Course, the Addition of
a Course for Students
Not Yet Ready for ENC
1101, and Two
Curricular Proposals:
1: ENC 1101
2: LIT 2000
3: ENC 2xxx or
CRW 2xxx
1 or 2: ENC 1101
1 or 2: LIT 2000 
ENC 114x
3: ENC 2xxx,
CRW 2xxx, or
ENC 3250
1: ENC 1101
2: ENC 1102
3: LIT 2110
4: LIT 2932
Offer DL sections for ENC
1101, ENC 1143, ENC 2210,
ENC 2460, and ENC 3250
Develop an ESL course.
Pilot ENC 1101 Model
ENC 1130
UNF/English
Workplace Readiness
Writing Proposal
DL Writing Curriculum
Proposal
ENC 1130
DL Writing
Curriculum Initiative
Begins
REVIEW and REVISE: Current UNF General
Education Writing Curriculum
Required
Required
Choose 1:
ENC 1101
ENC 1143
ENC 1102
ENC 2210
ENC 2441
ENC 2442
ENC 2443
ENC 2450
ENC 2451
ENC 2460
ENC 2461
ENC 2462
ENC 2463
ENC 2930
ENC 3250
*LIT 2932
*CRW 2000
*CRW 2100
*CRW 2201
*CRW 2300
*CRW 2400
*CRW 2600
**CRW 2930
(GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing
(GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Narrative
(GW) Informed Writer
(GW) Technical Writing
(GW) Writing Topics: Fine Arts
(GW) Writing Topics: Humanities
(GW) Writing Topics: Literature
(GW) Writing Topics: Natural Science
(GW) Writing Topics: Health
(GW) Writing Topics: Business
(GW) Writing Topics: Social Science
(GW) Writing Topics: Education
(GW) Writing Topics: Engineering
(GW) Special Topics in Composition
(GW) Professional Communication
(GW) Special Topics in Literature
(GW) Introduction to Creative Writing
(GW) Introduction to Fiction Writing
(GW) Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction Writing
(GW) Introduction to Poetry Writing
(GW) Introduction to Playwriting
(GW) Introduction to Screen Writing
(GW) Special Topics in Creative Writing
REVIEW and REVISE:
UNF Writes Self-Talk Rubrics
.
Challenges for UNF Writing
 Cultural/Economic: Students can’t write.
 Disciplinary: What do we mean when we say
“students can’t write”?
 Institutional: Increasing pressure to offer Distance
Learning courses and decreasing enrollments due
to transfer credit from high school. Also the need to
address accreditation concerns.
Writing Program – As It Stands
 Locally developed writing curriculum and
assessment
 Directed Self-Placement exam
 Outreach to other disciplines
 New Writing Center
 Distance Learning pilot: ENC 1101
What the UNF Writing Center Will
Look Like
We are here.
Writing Center Consultant
Graduate Assistants and Part-Time Faculty
Undergraduate Peer Mentors and Writing Center
Interns