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m-8.30.09

Introductions

m-9.7.09

Labor Day: No Class

m-9.14.09

Composition's History

• Buy textbooks
• Respond to instructor's introductory email
• Read Berlin, Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges
• Read Matsuda, "The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in US Composition" [BB]
• Read Gilyard, "African-American Contributions..." [College Composition and Communication, 50.4]
• Read Lunsford & Lunsford, "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life" [BB]
• Read CCCC's Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers
• In the body of the email to the instructor, propose and rank three WikiComp Concepts that you would like to compose an entry for with a rationale

m-9.21.09

Composition in Movements

• Read Crowley, "The Evolution of Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric" NBCS [333-346]
• Read Kinneavy, "Expressive Discourse" NBCS [372-386]
• Read Bazermann, "The Problem of Writing Knowledge" NBCS [502-514]
• Read Leki, "The Legacy of First-year Composition" [BB]
• Read Fox, "Repositioning the Profession" [JAC, 12.2]

m-9.28.09

Literacy & Academic Discourse

• Read Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" NBCS [605-630]
• Read Canagarajh, "The Place of World Englishes in Composition" NBCS [1617-1642]
• Read Moss "Literacy in African-American Churches" NBCS [1148-1162]
• Submit WikiComp Concept Entry on WetPaint

m-10.5.09

Process, Post-Process, and Genre

• Read Flower and Hayes "The Cognition of Discovery" NBCS [467-478]
• Read Atkinson "L2 Writing in the Post-Process Era" NBCS [1532-1543]
• Read Delpit "The Silenced Dialogue" [BB]
• Submit WikiComp Revision #1 on WetPaint

m-10.12.09

Fall Break: No Class

m-10.19.09

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 WikiComp Revisions #2 and #3 on WetPaint

m-10.26.09

Teaching with Technology

• Read DeWitt, "Out There on the Web" [Computers and Composition, 14.2]
• Read Blackmon, "'But I'm Just White'" [BB]
• Read Romano "The Egalitarian Narrative" [Computers & Composition, 10.3–online version]
• Read Selfe "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning" [BB]
• Submit Sample Assignment with rationale to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class

m-11.2.09

Evaluating & Assessing Student Work

• Read Anson and Dannels, "Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation" [BB]
• Read Goldstein, "Questions and Answers..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 13.1]
• Read Ball, "Evaluating the Writing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" [BB]
• Submit WikiComp Revision #4 on WetPaint

m-11.9.09

Teaching Peer Review

• Read Paton "Approaches to Productive Peer Review" [BB]
• 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
• Submit WikiComp Revision #5 on WetPaint
• Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is November 10, 2009

m-11.16.09

Grammar(s)

• Read Hartwell, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" NBCS [563-585]
• Read Micciche, "Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar" [BB]
• Submit Semester Syllabus with Rationale to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class.

m-11.23.09

Grammar: L2 & 2nd Dialect Issues

• Read Ferris, "The grammar correction debate in L2 writing" [Journal of Second Language Writing 13.1]
• Read Troutman, "Whose Voice is it Anyway?" [BB]

m-11.30.08

Evaluation Simulation

Authorship & Plagiarism

• Read WPA-L Discussion on SIUE President [BB]
• Read Howard, "Sexuality, Textuality" NBCS [1205-1222]
• Read Bouman, "Raising Questions about Plagiarism" [BB]

m-12.7.08

The Future of Composition Studies

• Read Hesse, "Who Own Writing?" NBCS [1247-1261]
• Read Durst "Writing at the Postsecondary Level" NBCS [1655-1689]
• Read Wardle "'Mutt Genres' and the Goal of FYC" [BB]
• Submit the Pedagogical Close-Up on Friday, December 11, 2009 to the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu) by the end of the day.

m-12.14.08

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