ENGS 345: Practicum in Teaching Writing

Tentative Course Calendar

• Read - Paolo Freira: “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” H-O
• Read - Nancy Sommers: “Responding to and Evaluating Student Writing” H-O
• Read - Janet Emig: “Writing as a Mode of Learning” CTiCT 7-17
• Read - Donald Murray: “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” CtiCT 3-6

• Read - Nancy Sommers: “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” CTiCT 43-54

• Read - Patrick Hartwell “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar” CTiCT 205-234

• Read - Linda Flower and John Hayes “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” CTiCT 273-298

• Library Day with Pat Mardeusz — Meet in Bailey-Howe Library at 2pm sharp
• Greatest Teaching Fear Proposal Due
• Teaching Journal #1 Due

• Read - Anne Frances Wysocki “Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications” WNM 1-42
• Schedule a conference time with me for sometime this week

• Discussion topic: Assignment Sequence Weeks 8-15
• Schedule a conference time with me for sometime this week

• Read - David Bartholomae “Inventing the University” CTiCT 623-654
• Read - David Bartholomae “Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow” H-O
• Read - Peter Elbow “Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals” H-O
• Read - David Bartholomae & Peter Elbow “Interchanges: Responses to Bartholomae and Elbow” H-O

• Read - Cynthia Selfe “Toward New Media Texts: Taking Up the Challenge of Visual Literacy” WNM 67-110

• Discussion topic: Teaching in a Computer Lab
• Greatest Teaching Fear Draft Due

• Guest: Susan Dinitz on Portfolio Grading

• Read - James Berlin “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” CTiCT 255-270

• Read - Geoffrey Sirc “Box-Logic” WNM 111-146

• Teaching Journal #2 Due — With Reflection!
• Collaboratively revise Assignment Sequence

• Greatest Teaching Fear Revised Draft Due
• Collaboratively revise Assignment Sequence

• Read - Cynthia Selfe “Students Who Teach Us: A Case Study of a New Media Text Designer” WNM 43-66

• Discussion topic: Reflection and Wrap-up
• Teaching Journal #3 Due