ENG 552 Composition Studies
Syllabus
Spring 2005
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Note: Assignments due on date listed.
Week 1 January 17 MLK Day No Classes
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Week 2 January 24 Introduction to the Course
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Week 3 January 31 Theorizing Process: Composing & The Writer
Read: “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” pp. 2-6; “Writing as a Mode of Learning” pp. 7-16; “An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process” pp. 141-50; “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers” pp. 17-42; “Revision Strategies of Student Writers & Experienced Adult Writers” pp. 43-54; “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” pp. 273-98 in X-Talk
Keywords: “composing/writing,” “process,” “revision,” “students”
Week 4 February 7 Theorizing Process: The Role of Audience & Text
Read: “The Writer's Audience is Always Fiction” pp. 55-74; “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked” pp. 77-96; “The Basic Aims of Discourse” pp. 129-40; “Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing” pp. 151-74; “The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences” pp. 189-204; “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar” 205-34 in X-Talk
Keywords: “audience,” “essay,” “form/structure,” “grammar,” “style”
Week 5 February 14 Theorizing Process: Some Pedagogical Implications
Read: “Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing” pp. 311-18; “Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer” pp. 299-310; “William Perry and Liberal Education” pp. 319-28; “Inventing the University” pp. 623-54; “Is Teaching Still Possible?” pp. 329-44; “Narrowing the Mind and the Page” pp. 345-86; “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty” pp. 387- 411 in X-Talk
Keywords: “academic discourse,” “basic writing/writers,” “error,” “pedagogy”
Week 6 February 21 Theorizing Process: The Social Turn
Read: “Collaborative Learning” pp. 415-36; “Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition Teaching” pp. 437-60; “Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning” pp. 461-78; “'Contact Zones' and English Studies” pp. 479-86; “Professing Multiculturalism” pp. 487-503 in X-Talk
Keywords: “collaboration,” “discourse community,” “multiculturalism,” “social construction”
Due: Proposal for Bibliographical/Review of Literature Essay
Week 7 February 28 Theorizing Composition: Politics
Read: “The Language of Exclusion” pp 547-70; “Democracy, Pedagogy, and the Personal Essay” pp. 509-22; “Beyond the Personal” pp. 523-46; “The Arts of Complicity” pp. 655-76 in X-Talk
Keywords: “marginalized/marginalization,” “power,” “self/subject”
Week 8 March 7 Theorizing Composition: Gender, Race and Class
Read: “On the Subjects of Class and Gender in ‘The Literacy Letters” pp. 677-96; “Composing as a Woman” pp. 571-86; Feminism in Composition” pp. 587-610; “When the First Voice you Hear is Not Your Own” pp. 611-22 “On Rhetorica and the Precedents of Racism” pp. 829-46 in X-Talk
Keywords: “cultural studies,” “feminism,” “ideology”
Week 9 March 14 **Spring Break: No Classes**
Week 10 March 21 Theorizing Composition: Post-Process Theories I
Read: “Post-Process Pedagogy” pp. 97-125 in X-Talk ; Chapters 1-6 (pp. 7-95) in Post-Process Theory
Keywords: “paradigm”
Week 11 March 28 Theorizing Composition: Post-Process Theories II
Read: Chapters 7-13 (pp. 96-214) in Post-Process Theory
Week 12 April 4 Theorizing Composition: Past, Present, Future
Read: Chapters 1-5 (pp. 10-61), 11-13 (pp. 129-154) in Composition
Read: Chapters 17-22 (pp. 193-262) in Composition
Week 14 April 18 Theorizing Composition: Locating the Field
Read: Chapters 1-4 (pp. 3-110) in Situating Composition
Due: Peer Response
Week 15 April 25 Theorizing Composition: Locating the Field
Read: Chapters 5-7 (pp. 113-222) in Situating Composition
Oral Reports on Keywords
Oral Reports on Keywords
Due: Keyword Scholarly Journal
Reflection on Keywords
Bibliographical/Review of Literature Essay