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Professional Writing Pedagogy

Purpose

Throughout the semester we have focused on the teaching of student writers. Yet the doctoral degree that you are earning will position you to market yourself as a future administrator or will position you to be asked to do administrative work, such as directing a writing program, running a writing center, or instituting a WAC program. In these positions you will be responsible for fostering both the professionalism and professionialization of graduate students and instructors across the campus by preparing these constituents to think about the role of literacy in their pedagogies. This, of course, is a different challenge than teaching these literacies practices directly to the students. In today's class, we will talk about these challenges and discuss how strategies for negotiating them.

Guest Lecture–Dr. Joyce Neff

Dr. Joyce Neff will lead an interactive discussion on working with faculty in a Writing Across the Curriculum context.

Guest Lecture–Dr. Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Dr. Dr Louise Wetherbee Phelps will lead an interctive discussion on preparing composition faculty.

Debreifing–Pedagogy Projects

The instructor will return the pedagogy projects and talk about some issues that the students will want to think about as they prepare to execute their plans and to use the projects as a springboard for their Pedagogical Articles.