ENGS 345: Practicum in Teaching Writing

As promised, I’ve revised the Calendar. Here’s the summary of changes:

• The Teaching Journal #2 will include a 2-4 page reflection on the journal to date; it will be due on November 6
• The Greatest Teaching Fear revised draft will be due on November 20

That’s it!

Alright! Now we get to play with some of the concepts and works that I really enjoy!

For Thursday, take a look at these:

Concept-Mapping Tools

• Bubbl.us

• Thinkature

Flash Poetry by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (turn on your speakers)

• Dakota

• Operation Nukorea

Digital Scholarship

• David Hoover: “The End of the Irrelevant Text: Electronic Texts, Linguistics, and Literary Theory” in Digital Humanities Quarterly 1.2 (Summer 2007)

• Michelle Comstock and Mary E. Hocks: “Voice in the Cultural Soundscape: Sonic Literacy in Composition Studies” in Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2006)

Hyperfiction

• Chris Klimas: “An Ode to Pants”

Interactive Fiction

• Zork

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Finally, I’m teaching an udnergraduate course this semester on Composing Digital Narratives. There are resources on the blog for that course that may be of interest (as may the course blog itself).

Resources

• Composing Digital Narratives Reading List
• Composing Digital Narratives Resources List

As we discussed in class, here are the big announcements for Tuesday’s class (and beyond):

1. Your Greatest Fear/Worry/Problem/Anxiety about teaching English 001 is due on Tuesday. This doesn’t have to be a lengthy write-up, it only needs to be as long as it takes you to fully explain your topic.
2. For Tuesday, read Anne Francis Wysocki’s “Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications” in Writing New Media pages 1-41. Pay particular attention to the lesson plans at the end of the article, and how they either do or do not help you (and students) to understand the concepts Wysocki discusses.
3. For all future Writing Workshops, a new directive: focus on the student papers. Dan and Daniel have shown us some excellent ways we might help a class to re-engage with the source material, but for the last four workshops, I want you to take these papers at face value and help us all to see how to revise them. That doesn’t mean you can’t refer back to Warhol’s essay, but it shouldn’t be the centerpiece of your workshop.

Have a great weekend!

As I briefly mentioned at the end of class today, here’s the assignment for Tuesday:

• Photocopy and bring in one Exploration that you have commented on; make sure you remove the student’s name from the paper
• Read: Linda Flower & John R. Hayes’ “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” CTiCT 273-298
• Read: Patricia Bizzell’s “‘Contact Zones’ and English Studies” CTiCT 479-486
• Re-read: David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” CTiCT 623-654 or TC 39-67

I know you’ve read the Bartholomae for the summer workshop, so you may be able to just skim it this time. The goal is to be able to put him into conversation with Bizzell and Flower & Hayes.

Also, you should have started keeping your teaching journal by now.

Have a great long weekend, and I’ll see you all on Tuesday!