English 830 Teaching Writing

Schedule

January

  14      Introduction to the class: How we learn.

  21 Albritton, T. Honest Questions and the teaching of English. English Education, ,91-100.

Fox, D. (1983). Personal theories of teaching. Studies in Higher Education, 8, 151-163.

Gee, J. (2001). Literacy, discourse and linguistics: Introduction and what is literacy? (p. 525-544). In E. Cushman, E. Kintgen, B. M. Kroll & M. Rose (Eds.),  Literacy: A critical sourcebook. Boston,  MA: Bedford/St. Martins. Originally published in Journal of Education, 1, 5-21

Theories of Language & Literacy

28 Emig, J. (1977). Writing as a mode of learning. College Composition and Communication, 28, 122-127.

Hartwell, P. M. (1987). Creating a literate environment in freshman [sic] English: Why and how. Rhetoric Review 6(1), 4-20.

February 4 Mayher, J. (1990). Language I. In Uncommon sense. (pp. 107-135). Portsmouth, NJ: Boynton\Cook.

 Mayher, J. (1990). Language II. In Uncommon sense. (pp. 137-173). Portsmouth, NJ: Boynton\Cook.

Shuy, R. (1981). A holistic view of language. Research in the Teaching of English, 15, 101-111.

11 Kumaravadivelu, B. (2001). Toward a postmethod pedagogy. TESOL Quarterly, 35, 537-560

Rose, M. (1980). Rigid rules, inflexible and the stifling of language: A cognitivist analysis of writer’s block. College Composition and Communication, 31, 389-401.

Matsuda, P. K. (2003). Process and post-process: A discursive history. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12, 65-83.

Theories of Composition

18 Tate, Rupiper, & Schick

The Composition Classroom

25 Glenn & Goldthwaite Chapter 1, 2, & 3

 Howard, R.M. (1999). The new abolitionism comes to plagiarism. In L. Buranen & A.M. Roy (Eds.),  Perspectives on plagiarism & intellectual property in a postmodern world (pp. 87-95). Albany, NY: SUNY.

March 4 Spring break, no class

McComiskey

11 CCCC in San Francisco, no class

Glenn & Goldthwaite Chapter 4 & 5

Bloom in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Hamp-Lyons, L. & Condon, W. (2000). Assessing the portfolio: Principles for practice, theory, & research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Chapter 1).

Grammar

18 Hartwell in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Williams, J. (1981). The Phenomenology of Error. College Composition and Communication, 32 152-168

 Elley, W. B.; Barham, I. H.; Lamb, H.; Wyllie, M. (1976). Research in the Teaching of English, 10, 5-21

Huot, B. (2002). Getting textual: Teaching students to proof read and edit. In C. Moore & P. O’Neill (Eds.), Practice in Context: Situating the Work of Writing Teachers (pp. 213-222). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Williamson, M. M. (1986) Common sense meets research: The debate over grammar instruction in composition instruction.  English Record, 34(1), 13-16.

25 Nancy Sommers in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Wendy Bishop in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Writing in the University

April 1 Bartholomae in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Moss & Walters in Glenn & Goldthwaite

8 Rose in Glenn & Goldthwaite    

Royster in Glenn & Goldthwaite

Hamp-Lyons, L. & Condon, W. (2000). Assessing the portfolio: Principles for practice, theory, & research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Chapter 2).

15 Golub, selected chapters

22 Anson, selected chapters