Schedule
Here we have the weekly schedule for the seminar. It is very much incomplete, but will be fleshed out as we proceed.
All readings come from the following texts (unless otherwise noted):
- Bartholomae, David. Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. (WM) on the schedule
- Bernstein, Susan Naomi. Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. (TDW on the schedule)
- Gottschalk, Katherine, and Keith Hjortshoj. The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. (ETW on the schedule)
- Johnson, T.R. Teaching Composition: Background Readings. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. (TC on the schedule)
- Matsuda, Paul Kei, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper. Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. (2-LW on the schedule
- Stahl, Norman A. and Hunter Boylan. Teaching Developmental Reading: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Background Readings. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. (TDR on the schedule)
August 30 - Introduction, or Getting Started
September 6* - What Are We (and
Our Students) Doing in Composition?
>Reading - David Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" (TC)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
September 13 - NO CLASSES AT YORK COLLEGE
September 20 - Developing Assignments, Formal and Informal
>Reading - Joy Reid and Barbara Kroll, "Designing and Assessing
Effective Classroom Writing Assignments for NES and ESL Students (2-LW)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
September 27 - The Nexus of Reading and Writing
Reading - Amelia E. El Hindi, "Conecting Reading and Writing: College
Learners' Metacognitive Awareness" (TDR)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Connecting El-Hindi's Findings to
Your Class
October 4* - Collaborative Learning
(Special Guest - Linda M. Grasso, Professor of English)
Reading - Kenneth A. Bruffee, "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation
of Mankind'" (College English, 1984 - on reserve or via JStor)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Working Normally (and Abnormally)
with Collaborative Learning
October 11 - Revision
Reading - Nancy Sommers, "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and
Experienced Adult Writers" (TC)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Adult and Novice Writers Revise
(What's the Difference?)
October 18 - Quantitative Literacy
Reading - Christopher R. Wolfe, "Quantitative Reasoning Across a College
Curriculum" (College English, Winter 1993 - reserve or via
EBSCO) *NEW*
Reading - Office of Assessment, "A Description of the CUNY Proficiency
Exam: Information for Students, 2003-2004"
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - What Role for the Quantitative in Composition
Courses?
October 25 - Marking Student Texts
Reading - Nancy Sommers, "Responding to Student Writing" (TC)
Reading - Nancy Sommers, Carol Rutz, and Howard Tinberg. "Re-Visions: Rethinking
Nancy Sommers's 'Responding to Student Writing,' 1982." (College Composition
and Communication, 2006 - on reserve)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Responding to Student Writing and
Valuing the Work of Composition Instruction (Nancy Sommers, Carol Rutz,
Howard Tinberg)
November 1* - Error
Reading - David Bartholomae, "The Study of Error" (WM)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
November 8 - Post-Observation Conference (NOTE: This is a change from the original schedule!)
November 15 - What is Composing?
Reading - Ann E. Berthoff, "From The Making of Meaning"
(TC)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Entering and Exiting the Chaos
(Ann E. Berthoff)
November 20 (A Tuesday) - Grammar in Context
Reading - Constance Weaver, "Teaching Style through Sentence Combining
and Sentence Generating" (TDW)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
November 29 - Plagiarism (NOTE - This is a change from
the original schedule!)
Reading - Rebecca Moore Howard, "Forget About Policing Plagiarism:
Just Teach" (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001 - on
reserve)
Reading - Elaine E. Whitaker, "A Pedagogy to Address Plagiarism"
(College Composition and Communication, 1993 - on reserve)
Reading - Plagiarism: Pernicious Plague or Preventable Pest (film)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
December 6* - English Language
Learners, Reading, and Writing
Reading - Vivian Zamel, "Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of
Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum" (College Composition
and Communication, 1995 - on reserve)
Reading - Ilona Leki, "Reciprocal Themes in ESL Reading and Writing"
(TDW)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
December 13 - New Media Composition (NOTE: This is a change
from the original schedule!)
Reading - Mary Hocks, "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing
Environments" (TC)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Final Project Due! (TBA)
December 20
Reading - Kurt Spellmeyer, "Can Teaching, Of All Things, Prove to Be
our Salvation?" (TC)
*Scheduling Conflict - Will Likely Need to Change Meeting Time or Day
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