| Date |
Due Today |
In Class |
| Jan. 14 |
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• Course introduction
• Introduce Reading Responses
• Introduce Guidebook Proposal |
| Jan. 21 |
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No Class |
| Jan. 28 |
• Reading 1A
"Teach Writing as a Process Not Product"
"Writing as a Mode of Learning"
"The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers"
"Revision Strategies of Students Writers and Experienced Adult Writers"
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• Discuss readings
• Discuss Guidebook Proposals |
| Feb. 4 |
• Reading 1B
"The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction"
"Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked"
"Post-Process 'Pedagogy': A Philosophical Exercise"
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• Discuss Guidebook Proposals
• Introduce Teaching Presentation |
| Feb. 11 |
• Guidebook Proposal
• Reading 2A
"The Basic Aims of Discourse"
"An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process"
"Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing"
"A Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph"
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• Present Guidebook Proposals |
| Feb. 18 |
• Reading 2B
"The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences"
"Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar"
"Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories"
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• Teaching Presentations (Robert, Renee)
• Introduce Teaching Philosophy |
| Feb. 25 |
• Reading 3A
"A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing"
"Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer"
"Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing"
"William Perry and Liberal Education"
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• Teaching Presentations (Jessica)
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| Mar. 4 |
|
No Class |
| Mar. 11 |
• Reading 3B
"Is Teaching Still Possible?"
"Narrowing the Mind and the Page"
"Cognition, Convention, and Certainty"
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• Guest speakers (Schmidt and Smith)
• Teaching Presentations (Maria, Elena) |
| Mar. 18 |
• Reading 4A
"Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'"
"Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition Teaching"
"Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning"
"'Contact Zones' and English Studies"
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• Guest speakers (Harris, Graham)
• Teaching Presentations (Libby) |
| Mar. 25 |
• Reading 4B
"Professing Multiculturalism"
"Beyond the Personal"
"The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research"
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• Teaching Presentations (Terrey, Kitty, Wes) |
| Apr. 1 |
• Teaching Philosophy
• Reading 5A (No Reading Response)
"Inventing the University"
"When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own"
"Memoria Is a Friend of Ours"
"Composing as a Woman"
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• Meet in BR 160
• Introduce Course Materials |
| Apr. 8 |
• Reading 5B
"Feminism in Composition"
"On the Subjects of Class and Gender in 'The Literacy Letters'"
"Inventing the Mother Tongue"
"Composition Studies and ESL Writing"
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• Meet in BR 160
• Guest Speaker (Sumerel)
• Teaching Presentations (Quinn, Jamie M.) |
| Apr. 15 |
• Reading 6A
"Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital"
"Blinded by the Letter"
"The Politics of the Interface"
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• Meet in BR 160
• Teaching Presentations (Laura, KP) |
| Apr. 22 |
• Reading 6B
"From Analysis to Design"
"Made Not Only in Words"
"Oakland, The Word, and the Divide"
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• Meet in BR 160
• Teaching Presentations (Jamie J., Lauren) |
| Apr. 29 |
• Course Materials (by midnight) |
• Final questions about Course Materials |
| May 3 |
• Teaching Philosophy revisions (by midnight)
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