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!
Greetings. The Course Syllabus and Calendar are now online, and the Resources page will be up by the end of the week.
I will continue to add to the Course Calendar, updating it as the semester progresses with readings targeting the issues and questions you raise in class, so check back often. The Course Calendar here on the blog will be the official calendar for the class, so what it says goes.
Also, I’ll be adding to the Resources page as new resources become available (and as I become aware of them), and as we discuss different sites that may be useful to you in your teaching.
Finally, as promised, here is the list of your classmates’ “Last Books I Read & Enjoyed,” in no particular order:
- The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
- Jesus Land, by Julia Scheeres
- Enjoy Your Symptom!, by Slavoj Zizek
- Cosmopolis, by Don Delillo
- The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy
- Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
- Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Now, I expect you all to run out right now and buy all of these books. You should have something productive to do with all of that free time…
(I’m kidding, really.)
Welcome to the course blog for ENGS 345: Practicum in Teaching Writing, a graduate seminar for new English Department Graduate Teaching Fellows at the University of Vermont.
This site will feature the course syllabus, schedule, readings, and other teaching-related info that you may find useful, so check back often!
