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Annmarie Guzy

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Annmarie Guzy | Associate Professor

Specializes in composition pedagogy, professional communication, and honors education, with interests in genre literature and film.

HUMB 271  |  460-6745  |  aguzy@southalabama.edu

Honors Composition CoverHonors Composition: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Practices. National Collegiate Honors Council Monograph Series, 2003.
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A review of scholarship on post-secondary honors education demonstrates that honors instruction focuses upon developing critical thinking skills; similarly, composition and language theorists argue that writing instruction, both in the composition classroom and throughout the college curriculum, is a key tool in developing critical thinking and argumentation skills. Therefore, the author contends that honors students need to strengthen critical thinking skills and that participation in a comprehensive writing program designed specifically for honors students is essential in strengthening such skills. To facilitate development of such programs, the author provides a set of guidelines that include program admission exercises, first-year honors composition courses, upper-division seminars, thesis and capstone projects, and extracurricular writing activities. Data and sample projects were gathered through a survey of composition components from over 300 National Collegiate Honors Council member college and programs at two-year, four-year, and graduate degree-granting institutions. Guideline sections also include discussion of differentiation between honors and non-honors courses and writing assignments. From these guidelines, honors deans and directors and writing program administrators can readily adapt and develop honors composition components which meet their honors students’ needs in building critical thinking and argumentation skills.

Book Chapters

  • "Constructing an Honors Composition Course to Support a Research-based Honors Curriculum." Breaking Barriers in Teaching and Learning, edited by James Ford and John Zubizarreta, National Collegiate Honors Council, 2018, pp. 153-170.
  • Guzy, Annmarie and Laura A. Sullivan.  "Making Connections in Secondary Education: Document Exchange between Technical Writing Classes and High School English Classes."  Innovative Approaches to the Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Dickie Selfe, Karla Saari Kitalong, and Tracy Bridgeford, Utah State University Press, 2004, pp. 272-290.

Lead Articles

  • "Honors Is a Good Fit for Gifted Students—or Maybe Not." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 19, no. 2, 2018, pp. 9-16.
  • "AP, Dual Enrollment, and the Survival of Honors."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 17, no. 2, 2016, pp. 3-11.

Articles

  • "A Creative Midterm Alternative: The Horror Author Poster Session." Honors In Practice, vol. 19, 2023, pp. 138-141.

  • "Meet the New Boss: An Honors Faculty Member Weathers Administrative Change." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 24, no. 1, 2023, pp. 13-18.

  • "Using Issues in Honors Education to Teach Argumentation." Honors In Practice, vol. 18, 2022, pp. 155-157.

  • "Putting the Human into the Humanities." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 21, no. 2, 2021, pp. 25-29.
  • "Honors Faculty as Problem Solvers." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 20, no. 1, 2019, pp. 71-75.
  • "Research on Honors Composition, 2004-2015." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 17, no. 1, 2016, pp. 9-21.
  • "Honors Composition: Humanity beyond the Humanities."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 16, no. 1, 2015, pp. 37-42.
  • "An Effective Honors Composition Class Improves Honors Retention Rates: Outcomes and Statistical Prestidigitation."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 15, no. 2, 2014, pp. 9-13.
  • "Honors Sells . . . But Who's Paying?"  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 15, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55-60.
  • "The Confidence Game in Honors Admissions and Retention."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, pp. 41-45.
  • "Can Faculty Afford Honors?"  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 13, no. 1, 2012, pp. 23-27. 
  • "Harry Potter and the Specter of Honors Accreditation."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 12, no. 2, 2011, pp. 85-90.
  • "Why Honors Students Still Need First-Year Composition."  Honors In Practice, vol. 7, 2011, pp. 63-70. 
  • "A Blue Collar Honors Story."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 10, no. 1, 2009, pp. 25-29. 
  • "Honors Culture Clash: The 'High Achieving' Student Meets the 'Gifted' Professor."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 9, no. 1, 2008, pp. 31-34.
  • "Evaluation vs. Grading in Honors Composition."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 8, no. 1, 2007, pp. 31-36. 
  • "A History and Context for the Scholarly Study of First-Year Honors Composition."  FYHC: First-year Honors Composition, vol. 1, 2006. Web.
  • "Originality Is a Risk."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005, pp. 29-30.
  • "Faculty Compensation and Course Assessment in Honors Composition." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 5, no. 1, 2004, pp. 105-114.
  • "Research in Honors and Composition."  Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, vol. 5, no. 1, 2004, pp. 37-39. 
  • "Reproducing Our Means of Reproduction: Althusserian Reflections of an Honors Professor."  National Honors Report, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 9-11. 
  • "Horror in the Disciplines: Expanding Critical Thinking through a Critically Maligned Genre."  National Honors Report, vol. 23, no. 1, 2002, pp. 11-16. 
  • "Returning Students and the Technical Writing Course: Retention Strategies for New Technical Writing Teachers."  KAIROS: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, vol. 6, no. 2, 2001. Web.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Irony in The Twilight Zone: How the Series Critiqued Postwar Culture. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 307-310.