Schedule
Weekly Schedule (select a month)
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 28 - Introduction, or Getting Started
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans for Weeks 1-4
September 4* - What Are We (and
Our Students) Doing in Composition?
>Reading - David Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" (TC)
>Assignment - Discourse: Invention? Active
Engagement? What?
>Assignment - Bring an Assignment or Lesson to Discuss
September 11 - 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 - Writing Assignment Design
September 18 - 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
September 25 - Collaborative Learning
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 2 - 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 9 - No Classes (CUNY Calendar)
October 16 - The CUNY Proficiency Exam: Reading, Writing,
and Quantitative Literacy
Reading - Office of Assessment, "A Description of the CUNY Proficiency
Exam: Information for Students, 2007-2008"
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Standardized Assessments of Reading,
Writing, and the Quantitative?
October 23 - 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)
October 30 - Error
Reading - David Bartholomae, "The Study of Error" (WM)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - Error: Interlanguage, Accident, and Transfer (David Bartholomae)
November 6* - Post-Observation
Conferences
Reading - None
>Assignment - Written Reflection on Observed Class Session
November 13 - 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 - Grammar in Context
Reading - Constance Weaver, "Teaching Style through Sentence Combining
and Sentence Generating" (TDW)
>Assignment - Bring Your Assignments/Lesson Plans
>Assignment - TBA
November 27 - COLLEGE CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING
December 4 - Plagiarism
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 - Plagiarism and the 21st Century
Classroom: Academic Discourse Conventions, Internet Conventions, and Pedagogies
December 11* - 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 17-23 - FINAL EXAM WEEK
Reading - Kurt Spellmeyer, "Can Teaching, Of All Things, Prove to Be
our Salvation?" (TC)
>Assignment - Final Project Due! (TBA)
*Scheduling Conflict - Will Likely Need to Change Meeting Time or Day
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