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ENGL 6930: Composition Theory
Fall 2015 • Monday 4:00 - 6:40CompTheoryStatementFall2015
Announcements
24 Aug
- CompTheoryStatementFall2015
- Opening discussion
- Exchange email addresses.
- Sources, critiques, &c. See MorgansNotes22Aug2011
- Teaching Abstract and Critique Writing, pdf. Harris
for 31 Aug
The Givens in Our Profession, part 1- Murray, Donald. "Teach Writing As a Process Not Product."
- Emig, Janet. "Writing as a Mode of Learning."
- Perl, Sondra. "The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers."
- Sommers, Nancy, and Richard L Graves. "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers."
- No outside reading required for this week.
- MorgansNotes29Aug2011 - being update through 31 Aug
- Presenters
- Dale and Joel
7 Sep: Labor Day: No class meeting
14 Sep
What was new becomes given - and a backlash in post-process thinking- Ong, Walter. "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction."
- Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy."
- Kastman Breuch, Lee-Ann M. "Post-Process "Pedagogy": A Philosophical Exercise."
- A critical summery (300 - 500 words) of one outside related reading. Summarized. Related readings and background reading on antifoundationalism on MorgansCompTheoryNotes12Sept.
- Some unasked for advice on writing critical summaries: MorgansNotesOnAbstractCritiques
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes12Sept
- IdealReadersAndActualReaders
- Presenters
- Casey and Michelle
21 Sep
Part 2: Talking in Terms of Discourse- Kinneavy, "The Basic Aims of Discourse."
- D'Angelo, "An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process."
- Britton, "Spectator Role and the Beginning of Writing."
- Rodgers, "A Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes19Sept2011, with related readings
- Presenters
- Beth and Dale
28 Sep
- Braddock, "The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose."
- Hartwell, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar."
- Berlin, "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes26Sept2011
- Presenters
- Joel and Casey. Michelle on deck.
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