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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.
- MorgansFirstNotesOnAbstractCritiques
- 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."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes19Sept2011, with related readings
- 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."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes26Sept2011
- Presenters
- Mel
- Matt Adams
Reflection
3 OctNo assigned readings for this week, although you might want to re-read or read more widely.
Develop 750 words or so in which you consider what we have done in this course so far: what you're dealing with, thinking about, reading further on, &c. Refer to readings we have done, conversations we have had, outside readings, perhaps experiences in your first-year class to help you articulate the issues you're encountering in composition theory. One caveat: Stay with the work and consideration in relation to first-year writing. And a second caveat: Stay dominantly with comp theory.
Email your consideration to everyone in class by Sunday evening, 2 Oct, so we can all review and consider responses for class.
Part 3: Developmental Schemes
10 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."
- Bizzell, "William Perry and Liberal Education."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes10Oct2011
- Presenters
- Ivory
- Lyla
17 Oct
Cross-Talk on Developmental Schemes
- 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."
- MorgansCompTheoryNotes17Oct2011
- Presenters
- Charles
- Alex
24 Oct
Part 4: Talking about Writing in Society
- Bruffee, "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind."
- Meyers, "Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition Teaching."
- Trimbur, "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning."
- Lu, "Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone."
- Presenters
- Sara
- Lyla
31 Oct
- Berlin, "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class." (I'll have a xerox for Ashley.)
- CompTheoryMidTermConceptMap
- Extra: Concept map software and materials: http://cmap.ihmc.us/
7 Nov
Part 5: Selves and Schools
- Barthlomae, "Inventing the University."
- Rose, "The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University."
- Flynn, "Comp0sing as a Woman."
- Royster, "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own."
- Presenters
- Deb H
- Mat H
14 Nov
- Recommended for the rest of the semester: //Technologies of Wonder//, Susan H. Delagrange. PDF. Just released this month. Some good consideration of the present and evolving position of multimodal artifacts in FYC and the university. Should be a good supplement to the text we're using, Composing in New Media.
- Composing in New Media, part 1.
- You're still reading supplementary material, but your sources have changed, and it might be a little trickier locating and choosing sources that tie into the chapters. Try the sources below as starting points. When you look elsewhere, be careful that you're working with tertiary academic sources.
- http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/: Computers and Composition Online
- http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/ Computes and Composition in Print. You will need to access this via ScienceDirect
- http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/
- Others to read: Kress, ...
- Presenters
- Ashley
on deck
- Anson, Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology."
21 Nov - week of Thanksgiving Break
- Composing in New Media, part 2
28 Nov
- Composing in New Media, part 3
The final will be a take home scholarly essay: a comprehensive essay synthesizing matters surrounding a selected issue in comp theory. Email suggestions to mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu, better, everyone in the class.
5 Dec - final meeting
