tentative syllabus ENGL513 Composition Theory & Pedagogy
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23 January 2024 6:00 PM-8:40 PM (in-person)
Class canceled due to family emergency.
30 January 2024 (in-person)
Introduction to the course. Laying the Groundwork: some history on Rhetoric & Composition as a field of study and a pedagogy in the classroom. Is it true that Johnny Really Can’t Write? For reading and discussion this evening, click on this link to the 1975 article "Why Johnny Can't Write." Overview of Reading Responses. Overview of Literacy History assignment.
6 February 2024 (synchronous online)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Chapter 1: Processes, in Wardle & Adler-Kassner Concept 1: Writing is a Social & Rhetorical Activity. In Guide to What is Comp Pedagogy: “Expressive” and “Process” sections. DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. Literacy History draft for Workshopping in-class. NOTE: please make sure your draft is accessible electronically for the purposes of workshopping.
Class canceled due to family emergency.
30 January 2024 (in-person)
Introduction to the course. Laying the Groundwork: some history on Rhetoric & Composition as a field of study and a pedagogy in the classroom. Is it true that Johnny Really Can’t Write? For reading and discussion this evening, click on this link to the 1975 article "Why Johnny Can't Write." Overview of Reading Responses. Overview of Literacy History assignment.
6 February 2024 (synchronous online)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Chapter 1: Processes, in Wardle & Adler-Kassner Concept 1: Writing is a Social & Rhetorical Activity. In Guide to What is Comp Pedagogy: “Expressive” and “Process” sections. DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. Literacy History draft for Workshopping in-class. NOTE: please make sure your draft is accessible electronically for the purposes of workshopping.
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13 February 2024 (synchronous online)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Introduction to Asao Inoue's Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future. Also, Fitzgerald's "A Rediscovered Tradition. . ." and Crowley's "Composition in the University." DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. Literacy History draft to turn in to me electronically, include your draft from last week if possible.
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Introduction to Asao Inoue's Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future. Also, Fitzgerald's "A Rediscovered Tradition. . ." and Crowley's "Composition in the University." DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. Literacy History draft to turn in to me electronically, include your draft from last week if possible.
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20 February 2024 (in-person)
READ: Monday Update. Also, your chapter of Inoue’s Antiracist. IN-CLASS: Overview and preliminary work on Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment. DUE: Reading Response that connects your chapter to the introduction. Also, overview of midterm portfolio.
27 February 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, chapter 5 “Assessing Writing” available by clicking on this link. DUE: Locate and read at least one article in the bibliography for your chapter. We'll practice annotations in class using our class discussion board. DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. IN-CLASS
5 March 2024 class canceled for spring break
(all BSU classes are canceled the week of 4-8 March 2024)
TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO BEGINS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio.
12 March 2024 (in-person)
LAST DAY TO TURN IN MIDTERM PORTFOLIO.
READ: Monday Update. In Guide To “Basic Writing" available by clicking on this link. Read also, Shaughnessy’s Introduction to Errors & Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing.” (PDF below) DUE: Reading Response IN-CLASS: Also, overview of Pedagogy Presentations Assignment. Sign up for presentation slot/topic. Overview: ethnography & classroom-based research project. Sign Up for Pedagogy Presentations by clicking here.
READ: Monday Update. Also, your chapter of Inoue’s Antiracist. IN-CLASS: Overview and preliminary work on Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment. DUE: Reading Response that connects your chapter to the introduction. Also, overview of midterm portfolio.
27 February 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, chapter 5 “Assessing Writing” available by clicking on this link. DUE: Locate and read at least one article in the bibliography for your chapter. We'll practice annotations in class using our class discussion board. DUE: Be prepared to post at least 250 words to a Discussion Board prompt related to tonights reading at the start of class. IN-CLASS
5 March 2024 class canceled for spring break
(all BSU classes are canceled the week of 4-8 March 2024)
TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO BEGINS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio.
12 March 2024 (in-person)
LAST DAY TO TURN IN MIDTERM PORTFOLIO.
READ: Monday Update. In Guide To “Basic Writing" available by clicking on this link. Read also, Shaughnessy’s Introduction to Errors & Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing.” (PDF below) DUE: Reading Response IN-CLASS: Also, overview of Pedagogy Presentations Assignment. Sign up for presentation slot/topic. Overview: ethnography & classroom-based research project. Sign Up for Pedagogy Presentations by clicking here.
| mina.shaughnessy.errors_expectations.pdf |
19 March 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Reading: In Clark, click on this link to access Chapters 2 “Invention” & 3 “Revision” and in Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Click on this link to access Concept 5 “Writing Is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity. Also, Nancy Sommers “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” (PDF below). In Kakali Bhattacharya, Click on this link to access Units 1, 2, and 5. DUE to post in class: Reading Response posted to our ENGL 513 DISCUSSION BOARD see discussion board for details at class time. To Prepare for class: What are you thinking of doing for your ethnography & classroom-based research project? What methodology(ies) might you use to conduct your study.
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Reading: In Clark, click on this link to access Chapters 2 “Invention” & 3 “Revision” and in Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Click on this link to access Concept 5 “Writing Is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity. Also, Nancy Sommers “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” (PDF below). In Kakali Bhattacharya, Click on this link to access Units 1, 2, and 5. DUE to post in class: Reading Response posted to our ENGL 513 DISCUSSION BOARD see discussion board for details at class time. To Prepare for class: What are you thinking of doing for your ethnography & classroom-based research project? What methodology(ies) might you use to conduct your study.
| nancy.sommers.revision.strategies.pdf |
26 March 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Click on this link to access Chapter 4 “Audience” and in Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Click on this link to access Concept 3 “Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies.” Also, Victor Villanueva Jr.’s “Maybe a Colony: And Still Another Critique of the Comp Community.” DUE to post in class: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time.
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Click on this link to access Chapter 4 “Audience” and in Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Click on this link to access Concept 3 “Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies.” Also, Victor Villanueva Jr.’s “Maybe a Colony: And Still Another Critique of the Comp Community.” DUE to post in class: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time.
| victor.villanueva.maybe_a_colony.pdf |
2 April 2024 (in person)
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Click on this link to access Chapter 10 "Language Diversity," also "We Do Language" by Charity-Hudley & Malinson (see PDF below). DUE: Reading Response due in class. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Cultural Studies.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON CULTURAL STUDIES PEDAGOGIES BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, Click on this link to access Chapter 10 "Language Diversity," also "We Do Language" by Charity-Hudley & Malinson (see PDF below). DUE: Reading Response due in class. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Cultural Studies.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON CULTURAL STUDIES PEDAGOGIES BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
| we.do.language.pdf |
9 April 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Click on this link to access Chapter 6 In Clark, "Genre” and click on this link to access Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Concept 2 “Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms.” Also, David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University.” (see PDF below) to turn in to me; Also, Overview of final project. DUE at class time: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Researched Writing & Rhetoric Argumentation AND Collaborative & Community Engaged Writing. Draft of ethnography & classroom-based research project for workshopping. I'll pair you up with a classmate, see the Monday Update for your reading partner(s) and you'll make available an editable google.doc link to your classmates. Folks should send a link in time for their partners to read and respond to your draft by midnight on the day of class.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGED WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. Click on this link to access Chapter 6 In Clark, "Genre” and click on this link to access Adler-Kassner & Wardle, Concept 2 “Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms.” Also, David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University.” (see PDF below) to turn in to me; Also, Overview of final project. DUE at class time: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Researched Writing & Rhetoric Argumentation AND Collaborative & Community Engaged Writing. Draft of ethnography & classroom-based research project for workshopping. I'll pair you up with a classmate, see the Monday Update for your reading partner(s) and you'll make available an editable google.doc link to your classmates. Folks should send a link in time for their partners to read and respond to your draft by midnight on the day of class.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGED WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
| david.bartholomae.inventingtheuniversity.pdf |
16 April 2024 (synchronous on-line)
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 11 "Writing in Multiple Media." Also, In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 9 "Non-native Speakers of English." DUE at class time: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time. DUE: Please email me a link to your ethnography & classroom-based research project. Tentative argument and (very, very) preliminary bibliography for final project. IN-CLASS: we’ll share our tentative arguments with each other. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Second Language Writing AND New Media & Online and Hybrid.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON NEW MEDIA & ONLINE/HYBRID PEDAGOGIES BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK
23 April 2024 (In-person)
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 7 “Voice and Style” and click on this link to access Chapter 8 “Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing.” DUE: Reading Response due in class. Instructions are included for workshopping on the google.doc sign up and/or see the FINAL PROJECT assignment page in this website for details on how workshops will run. DUE: Workshop draft/links to be available by this evening to our classmates.
30 April 2024 (in-person)
Final Project Whole class workshop. Dinner.
DUE BY 6:00 ON 6 MAY 2022 YOUR FINAL PROJECT.
Use this zoom link to attend: https://bridgew.zoom.us/j/3806648927
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 11 "Writing in Multiple Media." Also, In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 9 "Non-native Speakers of English." DUE at class time: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details at class time. DUE: Please email me a link to your ethnography & classroom-based research project. Tentative argument and (very, very) preliminary bibliography for final project. IN-CLASS: we’ll share our tentative arguments with each other. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Second Language Writing AND New Media & Online and Hybrid.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON NEW MEDIA & ONLINE/HYBRID PEDAGOGIES BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK
23 April 2024 (In-person)
READ: Monday Update. In Clark, click on this link to access Chapter 7 “Voice and Style” and click on this link to access Chapter 8 “Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing.” DUE: Reading Response due in class. Instructions are included for workshopping on the google.doc sign up and/or see the FINAL PROJECT assignment page in this website for details on how workshops will run. DUE: Workshop draft/links to be available by this evening to our classmates.
30 April 2024 (in-person)
Final Project Whole class workshop. Dinner.
DUE BY 6:00 ON 6 MAY 2022 YOUR FINAL PROJECT.