In an effort to familiarize myself with the expectations of community college syllabi and in preparation to design my own I analyzed at a variety of basic writing syllabi and reviewed Anis Bawarshi's work on the genre of the syllabus. Below I have compiled a presentation where I review information that influenced my syllabus design and where I provide a brief analysis of how four syllabi position student writing within their classrooms.
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At the Root: A Genre Analysis of Community College Syllabi
This word cloud contains all of the text from the four syllabi I analyze in the above presentation. Take a look and see how it compares to the syllabus guidelines in its focus.
This word cloud contains all the text from the syllabus guidelines of the three community colleges that I analyzed. The focus of the guidelines is centrally on the "nuts and bolts" of syllabus creation.