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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: The Givens of the Discipline
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."
- Exchange email addresses.
- MorgansNotes29Aug2011
- 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."
- Related readings from 29 Aug and for 12 Sept, and background reading on antifoundationalism is linked on MorgansCompTheoryNotes12Sept.
- Presenters
- Charles
- Deb
Part 2: Talking in Terms of Discourse
19 Sept- 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."
- Presenters
- Sara
- Matt
26 Sept
- Braddock, "The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose."
- Hartwell, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar."
- Witte and Faigley, "Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality."
- Berlin, "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories."
- Presenters
Part 3: Developmental Schemes
3 Oct- Flower and Hayes, "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing."
- Lunsford, "Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer."
- Shaughnessy, "Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing."
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10 Oct
- Bertoff, "Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order Reasoning."
- Rose, "Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism."
- Bizzell, "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing."
- mid-term: concept maps
- readings on concept maps
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.
