week   

m-8.27.12

Introductions

m-9.3.12

Labor Day: No Class

m-9.10.12

Composition's History

• Respond to instructor's introductory email
• Read Crowley, "The Evolution of Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric" [Rhetoric Review, 3.2]
• Read Matsuda, "The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in US Composition" [College English, 68.6]
• Read Gilyard, "African-American Contributions..." [College Composition and Communication, 50.4]
• Read The New London Group, "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies"
• Read Downs & Wardle, "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions" [College Composition and Communiation, 58.4]
• Submit Blog Entry #1 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-9.17.12

Composition in Movements

• Read Elbow "Being a writer..." [College Composition and Communication, 46.1]
• Read Leki, "The Legacy of First-year Composition" [BB]
• Read Fox, "Repositioning the Profession" [JAC, 12.2]
• Submit Blog Entry #2 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-9.24.12

Literacy & Academic Discourse

• Read Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" [BB]
• Read Canagarajah, "The Place of World Englishes in Composition" [College Composition and Communication, 57.4]
• Read Richardson "Coming from the Heart" [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #3 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.1.12

Process, Post-Process, and Genre

• Read Flower and Hayes "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing" [College Composition and Communication, 32.4]
• Read Hyland, "Genre-based pedagogies" [Journal of Second Language Writing, 12.1]
• Read Delpit "The Silenced Dialogue" [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #4 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.8.12

Fall Break: No Class

m-10.15.12

Designing Writing Assignments

• Read WPA-L discussion on the Five Paragraph Essay [BB]
• Read Reid & Kroll, "Designing and Assessing..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 4.1]
• Read Evans, "An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project" [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.22.12

Writing & Technology

• Read DeWitt, "Out There on the Web" [Computers and Composition, 14.2]
• Read McKee, "'YOUR VIEWS SHOWED TRUE IGNORANCE!!!'" [Computers and Composition, 19.4]
• Read DePew, "Social Media at Academia's Periphery" [Reading Matrix, 11.1]
• Submit Blog Summary on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.29.12

Hurricane Sandy: No Class

 

m-11.5.12

Grammar: Mainstream, L2 & 2nd Dialect Issues

• Read Hartwell, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" [College English, 47.2]
• Read Micciche, "Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar" [College Composition and Communication, 55.4]
• Read Matsuda, "Let's Face It" [BB]
• Read Troutman, "Whose Voice is it Anyway?" [BB]
• Submit Sample Assignment with rationale to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class
• Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is November 6, 2012

m-11.12.12

Teaching Peer Review

• Read Paton "Approaches to Productive Peer Review" [BB]
• Read Mangeldorf & Schlumberger, "ESL Student Response Stances in Peer Review Task" [BB]
• Read Leverenz, "Peer Response in the Multicultural Composition Classroom" [JAC, 14.1]
• Bring in draft of Semester Syllabus

m-11.19.12

Authorship & Plagiarism

• Read WPA-L Discussion on SIUE President [BB]
• Read Howard, "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." [College English, 57.7]
• Read Bouman, "Raising Questions about Plagiarism" [BB]
• Submit Semester Syllabus with Rationale to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class.

m-11.26.12

Evaluating & Assessing Student Work

• Read Anson & Dannels, "Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation" [BB]
• Read Lunt & Curran, "'Are you listening please?'" [Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 35.7]
• Read Goldstein, "Questions and Answers..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 13.1]
• Read Ball, "Evaluating the Writing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" [BB]

m-12.3.12

Evaluation Simulation

m-12.10.12

• Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns