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ENGL 6930: Composition Theory
Fall 2011 • Monday 4:00 - 6:40Announcements
22 Aug- CompTheoryStatementFall2011
- Opening discussion
- Sources, crits, &c. See MorgansNotes22Aug2011
- Teaching Abstract and Critique Writing, pdf. Harris
Part 1
29 Aug- 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."
- Presenters
- Mathew Hawthorne
- Lyla Owens
5 Sept: Labor Day. No class.
12 Sept
- Ong, Walter. "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction." In Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Edited by Jr, Victor Villanueva. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1997.
- Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy." CCC 35 (1984): 155-171. Print.
- Kastman Breuch, Lee-Ann M. "Post-Process "Pedagogy": A Philosophical Exercise."
- Presenters
Related readings
- Reither, James A. "Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process." The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. Ed. Gary Tate and Edward P J Corbett. 2nd ed. New York: OUP, 1988. 140-148. Print.
- Murray, Donald M. "Response of a Laboratory Rat - Or, Being Protocoled." CCC 34, 2 (1983): 169-172.
- Murray, Donald M. Eight Approaches to Teaching Composition. Ed. Timothy R Donovan and Ben W McClelland. Urbana: Ncte, 1980. 3-22. Print.
- Tomlinson, Barbara, Gesa Kirsch, and Duane H Roen. "Ong May Be Wrong: Negotiating with Nonfictional Readers." A Sense of Audience in Written Communication. Charles R Cooper and Sidney Greenbaum. Vol. 5. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. 85–98 Print.
Background readings in Foundationalism, Theory and Practice
- Hall of Mirrors: Antifoundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing, David W. Smit, JAC 15.1.
- Theory and Its Practice in Composition Studies (pdf). Kory Lawson Ching. JAC 27.3-4 (2007).
Part 2
19 Sept26 Sept
3 Oct
10 Oct
- mid-term: concept maps
- readings on concept maps
17 Oct
24 Oct
31 Oct
epistemic approach (week 4)
Berlin, James. "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories." A Sourcebook for Writing Teachers. Ed. Gary Tate and Edward P J Corbett. 3nd ed. New York: OUP, 1982. Print.
