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m-8.29.16

Introductions

m-9.5.16

Labor Day: No Class

m-9.12.16

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 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-9.19.16

Threshold Concepts Of Writng Studies

• Read Estrem "Threshold Concepts and Student Learning Outcomes" [Google]
• Read Dryer "Writing Is Not Natural" [Google]
• Read Villanueva "Writing Provides a Representation of Ideologies and Identities" [Google]
• Read Matsuda "Writing Involves the Negotiation of Language Difference" [Google]
• Read Adler-Kassner et al. "The Value of Troublesome Knowledge"
  
• Submit Blog Entry #2 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-9.26.16

Literacy & Academic Discourse

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

m-10.3.16

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" [Google]
• Submit Blog Entry #4 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.10.16

Fall Break: No Class

m-10.17.16

Designing Writing Assignments

• Read Wardle "'Mutt Genres' and the Goal of FYC" [College Composition and Communication, 60.4]
• Read Reid & Kroll, "Designing and Assessing..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 4.1]
• Read Evans, "An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project" [Google]
• Submit Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.24.16

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 The New London Group, "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies"
• Submit Blog Summary on Blogger by the beginning of class

m-10.31.16

Online Writing Instruction

 

• Read DePew, "Preparing for the Rhetoricity of OWI" [FPOWI]
• Read Miller-Cochran "Multilingual Writers and OWI" [FPOWI]
• Read "Adaptability to Online Learning" [Community College Research Center]
• Submit Sample Assignment with rationale to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class

m-11.7.16

Grammar Issues

• Read Micciche, "Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar" [College Composition and Communication, 55.4]
• Read Matsuda, "Let's Face It" [WPA, 36.1]
• Read Troutman, "Whose Voice is it Anyway?" [Google]
• Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is November 8, 2016

m-11.14.16

Teaching Peer Review

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

m-11.21.16

Authorship & Plagiarism

• Read WPA-L Discussion on SIUE President [Google]
• Read Howard, "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." [College English, 57.7]
• Read Bouman, "Raising Questions about Plagiarism" [Google]

m-11.28.16

Evaluating & Assessing Student Work

• Read Anson & Dannels, "Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation" [Google]
• 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" [Google]
• Submit Semester Syllabus with Rationale to the instructor via email attachment

m-12.5.16

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