Week 1   

Wednesday January 22 - Getting Started
Share personal and professional interests in writing instruction
Overview of course materials
Begin defining theory, practice, and pedagogy
Examine linkages with English 640

Week 2

Monday January 27 - Theorizing and Practicing

James Zebroski: Thinking Through Theory. Introduction and all of Part I through p. 145.
Patricia Bizzell, "Arguing about Literacy" (e-reserve)
Thomas Kent, "The Consequences of Theory for the Practice of Writing" (e-reserve)

Wednesday January 29 - Making knowledge in composition studies

Ruth Ray, "The Argument for Teacher Research" (e-reserve)
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality, chapter 5: Coherent Contradictions: The Conflicting Rhetoric of Writing Textbooks
Patricia Harkin, "The Postdisciplinary Politics of Lore" (e-reserve, piggy-backed onto the file entitled "Feminism: the Case for Conflict." Just print out "Feminism" and "Postdisciplinary" will follow)

 

Week 3

Monday February 3 - Empirical research and applied cognitive theory

Linda Flower, et al. "Detection, Diagnosis, and the Strategies of Revision." In Braddock Essays, pp. 191-210 only or until you get the idea.
Lester Faigley, "Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal" (e-reserves)
Nancy Sommers, "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" (e-reserves)
Joseph Harris. A Teaching Subject. Chapter 3: Process. Harris's book is on two-hour reserve at the Zimmerman.

Background Readings
Maxine Hairston, "The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing." Landmark essay. If you are interested in history of comp studies, a "must-read."
James Zebroski, Thinking Through Theory. JZ is a dedicated teacher of process. His other chapters continue his arguments about how to be a teacher of writing.

Wednesday February 5 - Catching up

Read or review Faigley, Chapter 5: Coherent Contradictions: The Conflicting Rhetoric of Writing Textbooks

Bring to class teaching materials of your own making, thinking about your sources of inspiration (can be multiple, of course) and what kinds of writing processes you have in mind.

 

Week 4

Monday February 10 - Contemporary argument

James Crosswhite, The Rhetoric of Reason :Writing and the Attractions of Argument. Chapters 2, 3, 4.

 

Wednesday February 12 - Contemporary argument

James Crosswhite, The Rhetoric of Reason :Writing and the Attractions of Argument. Chapters 5, 6.

Textbooks have arrived. Bring sacks.

Week 5

Monday February 17 - Work with textbooks and discuss textbook reviews

Textbook Possibilities:
Joseph Williams and William Colomb, The Craft of Argument
John Gage, The Shape of Reason
Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer, Good Reasons
John Ramage and John Bean, Writing Arguments

Wednesday February 19 - More Classical argument

Sharon Crowley and Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. Select a chapter for intensive review; read carefully at least one other chapter; read the table of contents and hunt and peck

 

Week 6

Monday February 24 - Work on Course Designs

Work on developing your courses
Nancy Sommers, "Responding to Student Writing," In Braddock Essays.
Zebroski. Selections.

Wednesday February 26 - Arguing about Argument

Dennis A. Lynch, Diana George, and Marilyn M. Cooper. "Moments of Argument: Agonistic Inquiry and Confrontational Cooperation." In Braddock Essays.

Week 7

Monday March 3 - Students and teachers reading

David Bartholome and Anthony Petrosky, "Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts" (e-reserves)
Joseph Harris, A Teaching Subject. Chapter 4: Error

Wednesday March 5 - Teachers and studetns reading

Glynda Hull and Mike Rose, "'This Wooden Shack Place': The Logic of an Unconventional Reading." In Braddock Essays.
Brodkey, Linda, and Jim Henry, "Voice Lessons in a Poststructural Key: Notes on Response and Revision" (e-reserves)
Joseph Harris, "Do the Right Thing" (handout)
James Sosnoski, "Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines." (e-reserves)

Week 8

Monday March 10 - Work on documents and textbook reviews

Textbook Possibilities:
John Trimbur, The Call to Write
Kenneth Bruffee, A Short Course in Writing: Composition, Collaborative Writing, and Constructive Reading
Jack Selzer, Conversations

Wednesday March 12 - Communities: situated, collaborative, and discursiv

Patricia Bizzell, "What Is a Discourse Community?"
John Trimbur, "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning."
James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Professional Writing Online: Users' Handbook. Excerpts.
Nancy Kaplan and Eva Farrell. "Weavers of Webs: A Portrait of Young Women on the Net"
Joseph Harris, A Teaching Subject. Chapter 5: Community

Week 9

March 19 and 21- SPRING BREAK

Work on Teaching Documents in Preparation for Review and Conferencing

Week 10

Monday March 24 - Authority

George, E. Laurie. "Taking Women Professors Seriously: Female Authority in the Computerized Classroom."
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality, chapter 6: The Networked Classroom

Wednesday March 26 - Race and ethnicity

Jacqueline Jones Royster and Jean C. Williams. "History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies"
Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham, Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 (Homi Bhabha, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michael Eric Dyson).
Victor Villanueva. "On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism"

Week 11

Monday March 31 - Class

Lynn Z. Bloom, "Composition as a Middle Class Enterprise"
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality, chapter 4: Ideologies of the Self in Writing Evaluation.
Suresh Canagarajah, Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Language Teaching. Excerpts.

 

Wednesday April 2 - Gender and Sexual Orientation

Warshauer, Susan Clair. "Rethinking Teacher Authority to Counteract Homophobic Prejudice in the Networked Classroom: A Model of Teacher Response and Overview of Classroom Methods."
Susan Jarratt,. "Feminism and Composition: The Case for Conflict"
Susan Romano, "On Becoming a Woman"

Background Reading
Susan Jarratt, "Feminist Pedagogy," in A Guide to Composition Pedagogies

 

Week 12

Monday April 7 - Critical pedagogy

Mas'ud Zavarzadeh. "The Pedagogy of Pleasure 2: The Me-in-Crisis"
Gerald Graff, "The Dilemma of Oppositional Pedagogy: A Response."
Gary Tate. "Empty Pedagogical Space and Silent Students"
James Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures, chapter 7: "Into the Classroom"
Myrna Harrienger and Nan Uber-Kellogg, "An Ethics of Difference"

Background Readings
Ann George, "Critical Pedagogy: Dreaming of Democracy" in A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
Diana George and John Trimbur, "Cultural Studies and Composition" in Guide to Composition Pedagogies

Wednesday April 9 - Catching up, catching breath and textbook reviews

Textbook Possibilities:
Barry Brummet, [title]
Richard Lanham, Style: An Anti-Textbook

 

Week 13

Monday April 14 - Voice, expressivism

Faigley, Fragments of Rationality, chapter 2: The Changing Political Landscape of Composition Studies
Joseph Harris, A Teaching Subject. Chapter 2: Voice "
Paulo Freire, assorted readings.

Textbook Possibilities:
Pat Belanoff and Peter Elbow, [title]

Wednesday April 16 - Professional writing, service learning, public discourse

Dorothy Winsor, "Writing Well as a Form of Social Knowledge"
Ellen Cushman, "The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change." In Braddock Essays.
Rosa Eberly, "From Readers, Audiences, and Communities to Publics: Writing Classrooms as Proto-Public Spheres"
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality, chapter 7: Student Writers at the End of History
Bonita R. Selting, "Conversations with Technical Writing Teachers"

Textbook Possibilities:
Edward P.J. Corbett and Rosa Eberly, Elements of Reason
Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer, Good Reasons: Designing and Writing Effective Arguments
Richard Lanham, Revising Business Prose

Week 14

Monday April 21

 

Wednesday April 23

Week 15

Monday April 28

Wednesday April 30

Week 16

Monday May 5

Wednesday May 7