WEEK 1 August 25-29  Introduction to Seminar

Tuesday: Introduction to Seminar

Thursday: Read Hesse “Teachers as Students, Reflecting Resistance” pp. 224-231 (Course Pack); Ebest “When Graduate students Resist” pp. 27-43 (Course Pack)

 DUE: Responses to first day of class
            Scholar's Log

WEEK 2 September 1-5 Toward Classroom Practices                  Labor Day 9/1/03

Tuesday: Hartwell “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar” pp. 423-50 TC; Heilker “Grammar” pp. 111-13 Keywords; Bartholomae “Inventing the University” pp. 73-101 TC

Thursday: Read Bruffee “Toward Reconstructing American Classrooms” pp. 126-44 TC; Howard “Collaborative Pedagogy” pp. 54-70 Guide; Goggin “Collaboration” pp. 35-39 Keywords; Haynes "Social Construction" pp. 221-24 Keywords

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

WEEK 3 September 8-12 Responding to and Evaluating Student Writing

Tuesday: Read Harris “Error” pp. 384-404 TC; Bolin “Error” pp. 81-84 Keywords; Williams “The Phenomenology of Error” pp. 405-423 TC

Thursday: Read Sommers, J. “Bringing Practice in Line with Theory: Using Portfolio Grading in the Composition Classroom” pp 362-73 TC; Schell “Portfolio” pp. 178-82 Keywords; Sommers, N. “Responding to Student Writing” pp. 351-61 TC; Bloom “Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades” pp. 374-83 TC; Clough “Evaluation” pp. 89-92 Keywords; Kearcher “Peer Evaluation” pp. 173-77 Keywords

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

WEEK 4 September 15-19 Rhetorical Grounding

Tuesday: Read Jolliffe and Covino “Rhetoric” pp. 213-16 Keywords; Booth “The Rhetorical Stance” pp. 169-177 Guide; Bushman “Invention” pp. 132-35 Keywords; Schnakenberg “Classical Rhetoric in American Writing Textbooks, 1950-1965” pp. 146-72 (Course Pack); Ede & Lunsford “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked” pp. 178-96 TC; Vandenberg “Audience” pp. 18-21 Keywords

Thursday: Read Bitzer “The Rhetorical Situation” pp. 217-225 (Course Pack); Vatz “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation” pp. 226-31 (Course Pack); Consigney “Rhetoric and Its Situations” pp. 175-86 (Course Pack); Biesecker “Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Difference” pp. 232-46 (Course Pack)

DUE: Scholar’s Log

WEEK 5   September 22-26 Process Pedagogy

Tuesday: Read Tobin “Process Pedagogy” pp. 19-35 Guide; Heilker “Composing/Writing” pp. 40-43 Keywords; Murphy “Process” pp. 192-95 Keywords; Johnson & Morahan “Thinking about the Writing Process” pp. 145-46 TC; Perl “Understanding Composing” pp. 146-54 TC; Rose “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language” pp. 155-68 TC; Sommers, N. “Revision Strategies of Students Writers and Experienced Adults” pp. 220-231 TC

Presenters: Elaine Farrugia, Karen Bollermann, Wendy Kelleher

Thursday: Read Welch “Toward an Excess-ive Theory of Revision” pp. 232-70 TC Gaillet “Revision” pp. 209-12 Keywords; Kent “Introduction” to Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing Process Paradigm 1-6 (Course Pack); Russell “Activity Theory and Process Approaches” pp. 80-95 (Course Pack)

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

Presenters: Mei-Ching Ho, Todd Kaneko, Regina Clemens Fox

WEEK 6 September 29-October 3 Expressive and Critical Pedagogy

Tuesday: Read Burnham “Expressive Pedagogy: Practice/Theory, Theory/Practice pp. 36-53 Guide; Elbow “Closing My Eyes as I Speak” pp. 197-219 TC; Brooke “Underlife and Writing Instruction” pp. 39-53 TC; Bushman “Expressive Writing” pp. 93-96 Keywords; Haynes “Self/the Subject” pp. 217-20 Keywords; Vandenberg “Voice” pp. 236-39 Keywords

Presenters: Jeff Baker, Matt Frank, Petulia Bain, Katie Coretese

Thursday: Read George, A. “Critical Pedagogy: Dreaming of Democracy” pp. 92-112 Guide; France “Resistance” pp. 206-08 Keywords; Hill “Empowerment” pp. 71-75 Keywords; Ervin “Institution” pp. 124-27 Keywords; Harkin “Ideology” pp. 119-23 Keywords; Bushman “Power” pp. 183-86 Keywords

 DUE:  Scholar’s Log

Presenters: Stephanie Serrano, Jimmy Lo, Johanna Wagner, Isaac Wilson

WEEK 7 October 6-10  Feminist and Community-Service Pedagogy

Tuesday: Read Jarratt “Feminist Pedagogy” pp. 113-32 Guide; Schell “The Cost of Caring: ‘Feminism’ and Contingent Women Workers in Composition Studies” pp. 501-20 TC; Schell “Feminism” pp. 97-101 Keywords

Presenters: Carol Mejia-Laperle, Nowell Marshall, Kirsti Cole, Ceren Tunalioglu

Thursday: Read Julier “Community-Service Pedagogy” pp. 132-48 TC; Long “The Rhetoric of Social Action: College Mentors Inventing the Discipline” 289-318 (Course Pack)

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

Presenters: Eva Valencia, Soren Palmer, Joshua Owen, Douglas Jones

WEEK 8 October 13-17 Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Back Again

Tuesday: Read New London Group “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures” pp. 9-37 (Course Pack); Fitts “Pedagogy” pp. 168-71 Keywords

Presenters: Charlie Jensen, Fify Juliana

Thursday: Read Ewald “A Tangled Web of Discourse: On Post-Process Pedagogy and Communicative Interaction” pp. 116-31 (Course Pack); Vandenberg “Intertextuality” pp. 128-32 Keywords; Hill “Critical Thinking” pp. 49-52 Keywords

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

Presenters: Jessica Tribble, Larry Hobson, Emi Kojiima

WEEK 9 October 20-24 Challenges to Essayist Literacy

Tuesday: Read Scollon and Scollon “Ideologies of Discourse” pp. 106-34 (Course Pack); Petraglia “Writing as an Unnatural Act” pp. 79-100 (Course Pack); Owens “Essay” pp. 85-88 Keywords; Heilker “Form/Structure” pp. 102-106 Keywords; Bowden “Literacy” pp. 140-44 Keywords;  Ervin “Epistemology” pp. 76-80 Keywords; Kerr “Knowledge” pp. 136-39 Keywords

DUE: Scholar's Log

Thursday:  Research Day
Due: Rough draft of Book Review for Peer Review

WEEK 10 October 27-31 Composing Politics and Politicizing Composition

Tuesday:  Read Ball & Lardner “Dispositions toward Language” pp. 484-500 TC; Varnum “Composition Studies” pp. 44-48 Keywords; Heilker “Freshman English” pp. 107-110 Keywords; Miller “Sad Women in the Basement” pp. 452-68 TC

Thursday: Read Reynolds “Composition’s Imagined Geographies” pp. 102-25 TC; Goggin and Miller “What’s New About the ‘New Abolitionists’?” pp. 85-112 (Course Pack)

 DUE: Scholar’s Log
              Book Review
 

WEEK 11 November 3-7            Introduction to ENG 102

Tuesday: Re-read Bitzer “The Rhetorical Situation” pp. 217-225 (Course Pack); Vatz “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation” pp. 226-31 (Course Pack); Consigney “Rhetoric and Its Situations” pp. 175-86 (Course Pack); Biesecker “Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Difference” pp. 232-46 (Course Pack); Introduction to ENG 102 curriculum.

Thursday: Read Everything’s an Argument, pp. 1-45; brainstorm for unit sequence

 DUE: Scholar’s Log

WEEK 12 November 10-14              November 11, Veterans Day--Classes Excused

Tuesday:  No Class Veterans Day

Thursday: Read “Argument,” pp. 14-17 Keywords and “Research,” pp. 201-205 Keywords; Everything’s an Argument, pp. 49-86 and pp. 297-310

 DUE: Scholar’s Log
            ENG 102 first, second and third unit

WEEK 13 November 17-21      Preparing for ENG 102

Tuesday: Read Holubec, Johnson and Johnson, “Dealing with Conflict: A Structured Cooperative Controversy Procedure”(Course Pack); further chapters of Everything’s an Argument

Thursday: Read Cushman, “The Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change”(Course Pack); exchange drafts of ENG 102 syllabi

 DUE: Scholar’s Log
            Draft ENG 102 syllabus

WEEK 14 November 24-28      November 27-28 Thanksgiving Recess--Classes Excused

Tuesday:  Discuss, revise and edit ENG 102 syllabi, calendar and policy pages

DUE: Revised draft ENG 102 Course Description/Policies and Syllabus

Thursday:  No Class, Thanksgiving Day

WEEK 15 December 1-5    Preparing for ENG 102

Tuesday:  Planning first week of ENG 102

Thursday:  Workshop Teaching Portfolio

 DUE:  Scholar’s Log
             Final Draft of ENG 102 Syllabus and Course Description/Policies
             Materials for Teaching Portfolio Workshop

WEEK 16 December 8-12  Wrap-up

Tuesday:  Course evaluation; Discuss syllabus for Spring 102 Teachers Workshop

 DUE:  Teaching Portfolio

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