tentative syllabus ENGL513 Composition Theory & Pedagogy
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25 January 2022 6:00 PM-8:40 PM
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.
1 February 2022
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: Reading Response. Literacy History draft for Workshopping in-class.
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.
1 February 2022
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: Reading Response. Literacy History draft for Workshopping in-class.
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8 February 2022
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: Reading Response. Literacy History draft to turn in to me.
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: Reading Response. Literacy History draft to turn in to me.
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15 February 2022
READ: Monday Update. Also, your chapter of Inoue’s Antiracist. IN-CLASS: Overview and preliminary work on Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment. POST: to our Class Discussion Board your Reading Response that connects your chapter to the introduction (see discussion board for complete details). Use the questions we came up with in class on 8 February 2022 to guide your response. Here is the link to those questions . The Monday update for the week repeats that link and includes what chapter you should read in addition to the introduction. I repeat it here for convenience:
Chapter 1 & 5 Chapter 2 & 5 Chapter 3 & 5. Chapter 4 & 5
Brian, Maura, & Olivia Alyssa, Megan, & Sarah Ashley, Kayleigh, & Matt Melissa & Shauna
22 February 2022
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. Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board, in what ways does tonights reading fit with or fight against what Inoue is saying? ALSO: second discussion board post: post a brief reflection on the relationship between ONE of your articles and Inoue’s argument.
1 March 2022
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 posted to our Class Discussion Board on relationship between Basic Writing and deficit thinking in the writing classroom. Also, draft of Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment for workshopping in class. IN-CLASS: Time in class to craft your group mini-presentations on what the field of Composition & Rhetoric values (what theories, what practices). Discussion of midterm portfolio. 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.
TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO BEGINS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio.
READ: Monday Update. Also, your chapter of Inoue’s Antiracist. IN-CLASS: Overview and preliminary work on Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment. POST: to our Class Discussion Board your Reading Response that connects your chapter to the introduction (see discussion board for complete details). Use the questions we came up with in class on 8 February 2022 to guide your response. Here is the link to those questions . The Monday update for the week repeats that link and includes what chapter you should read in addition to the introduction. I repeat it here for convenience:
Chapter 1 & 5 Chapter 2 & 5 Chapter 3 & 5. Chapter 4 & 5
Brian, Maura, & Olivia Alyssa, Megan, & Sarah Ashley, Kayleigh, & Matt Melissa & Shauna
22 February 2022
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. Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board, in what ways does tonights reading fit with or fight against what Inoue is saying? ALSO: second discussion board post: post a brief reflection on the relationship between ONE of your articles and Inoue’s argument.
1 March 2022
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 posted to our Class Discussion Board on relationship between Basic Writing and deficit thinking in the writing classroom. Also, draft of Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment for workshopping in class. IN-CLASS: Time in class to craft your group mini-presentations on what the field of Composition & Rhetoric values (what theories, what practices). Discussion of midterm portfolio. 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.
TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO BEGINS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio.
| mina.shaughnessy.errors_expectations.pdf |
8 March 2022 class canceled for spring break
(all BSU classes are canceled the week of 7-11 March 2022 14)
15 March 2022
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: Post to Class Discussion BoardENGL 513 DISCUSSION BOARD: Reading Response your proposed methodology for the ethnography & classroom-based research project. TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO ENDS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio. IN-CLASS: Mini-group presentations: what the field of Composition & Rhetoric values (what theories, what practices).
(all BSU classes are canceled the week of 7-11 March 2022 14)
15 March 2022
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: Post to Class Discussion BoardENGL 513 DISCUSSION BOARD: Reading Response your proposed methodology for the ethnography & classroom-based research project. TURN IN PERIOD FOR MIDTERM PORTFOLIO ENDS THIS WEEK: Reverse Annotated Bibliography Assignment and revised Literacy History in midterm portfolio. IN-CLASS: Mini-group presentations: what the field of Composition & Rhetoric values (what theories, what practices).
| nancy.sommers.revision.strategies.pdf |
22 March 2022
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details.
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details.
| victor.villanueva.maybe_a_colony.pdf |
29 March 2022
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 posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. 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 posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Cultural Studies.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON CULTURAL STUDIES PEDAGOGIES BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
| we.do.language.pdf |
5 April 2022
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Researched Writing & Rhetoric Argumentation AND Collaborative & Community Engaged Writing.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGED WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS: Researched Writing & Rhetoric Argumentation AND Collaborative & Community Engaged Writing.
PRESENTERS: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CHAPTER ON COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGED WRITING BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
| david.bartholomae.inventingtheuniversity.pdf |
12 April 2022
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. Sign up here (NOTE: link may not be live until this week)for Workshopping your final paper. 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.
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
19 April 2022
15 MINUTE OPTIONAL One-on-one conferences. Sign up for a slot between 6:00 and 8:40 HERE.
26 April 2022
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 posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. : Monday Update.
3 May 2022
DUE: Monday Update. DUE: whole class workshop. Please have your comments for those folks ready by class time.
DUE BY 6:00 ON 10 MAY 2022 YOUR FINAL PROJECT as part of your final portfolio.
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: Reading Response posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. Sign up here (NOTE: link may not be live until this week)for Workshopping your final paper. 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.
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
19 April 2022
15 MINUTE OPTIONAL One-on-one conferences. Sign up for a slot between 6:00 and 8:40 HERE.
26 April 2022
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 posted to our Class Discussion Board see discussion board for details. 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. : Monday Update.
3 May 2022
DUE: Monday Update. DUE: whole class workshop. Please have your comments for those folks ready by class time.
DUE BY 6:00 ON 10 MAY 2022 YOUR FINAL PROJECT as part of your final portfolio.