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1

m-8.25.08

Introductions

 

 

 

2

m-9.1.08

Labor Day: No Class

  
3

m-9.8.08

Composition's History
  • Buy textbooks
  • Read Berlin, Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges
  • Read Matsuda, "Composition Studies and ESL Writing" CT [773-796]
  • Read Gilyard, "African-American Contributions..." [College Composition and Communication, 50.4]
  • Read Lunsford & Lunsford, "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life" [BB]
  • Choose textbook for Textbook Review by the end of class
  • Choose PAB article from CT by the end of class
4

m-9.15.08

Composition in Movements
  • Read Murray, "Teaching Writing as a Process..." CT [3-6]
  • Read Emig, "Writing as a Mode of Learning" CT [7-16]
  • Read Elbow, "How to Get Power Through Voice" [BB]
  • Read Leki, "The Legacy of First-year Composition" [BB]
  • Read Lovejoy, "Practical Pedagogy for Composition" [BB]
  • Submit PAB entry #1 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
5

m-9.22.08

Literacy & Academic Discourse
  • Read Weinstein-Shr, "From Mountain-Tops to City Streets" (49-83) [BB]
  • Read Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" CT [623-653]
  • Read Fox, "Repositioning the Profession" [JAC, 12.2]
  • Submit Textbook Review to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
6

m-9.29.08

Writing as a (Post)Process

7

m-10.6.08

Designing Writing Assignments
  • Read WPA-L discussion on the Five Paragraph Essay [BB]
  • Read Cushman, "The Public Intellectual" CT [819-828]
  • Read Reid & Kroll, "Designing and Assessing..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 4.1]
  • Read Evans, "An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project" [BB]
  • Submit PAB entry #3 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
8

m-10.13.08

Fall Break : No Class

  
9

m-10.20.08

Teaching with Technology
10

m-10.27.08

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 PAB entry #4 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
11

m-11.3.08

Teaching Peer Review

  • Read 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 PAB entry #5 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class
  • Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is November 4, 2008
12

m-11.10.08

Grammar(s)
  • Read Hartwell, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" CT [205-235]
  • 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.
13

m-11.17.08

Grammar: L2 & 2nd Dialect Issues
14

m-11.24.08

Evaluation Simulation

Developmental (or Basic) Writing
  • Read Shaughnessy, "Diving In" CT [311-317]
  • Read Davi "In the Service of Writing and Race" [BB]
  • Read Zamel and Spack, "Teaching Multilingual Learners" [BB]
15

m-12.1.08

Authorship & Plagiarism
  • Read WPA-L Discussion on SIUE President [BB]
  • Read Zwagerman, "The Scarlet P" [BB]
  • Read Bouman, "Raising Questions about Plagiarism" [BB]
  • Submit the Pedagogical Close-Up on Friday, December 5, 2006 to the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu) by the end of the day.
Finals

m-12.8.08

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