Week 1 - Introduction & justification
January 6, 2011
Week 2 - Overview
January 13, 2011
Fulkerson, Richard. "Composition at the Turn of the 21st Century." College Composition and Communication 56 (2005): 654-87.
Berlin, James. "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories." College English 44 (1982): 765-77.
Week 3 - Process
January 20, 2011
Facilitation: Michelle E.
Bartholomae, Donald. "The Study of Error." College Composition and Communication 31 (1980): 253-69.
Cooper, Marilyn. "Ecology of Writing." College English 48 (1986): 364-75.
Faigley, Lester. "Competing Theories of Process." College English 48 (1986): 527-42.
Lunsford, Andrea and Lisa Ede. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 155-71.
Week 4 - Expressive
January 27, 2011
Facilitation: John M.
Cherry, Roger. "Ethos vs. Persona." Written Communication 5 (1988): 251-76.
Elbow, Peter. "A Method for Teaching Writing." College English 30 (1968): 115-25.
Fishman, Stephen M., and Lucille P. McCarthy. "Is Expressivism Dead?" College English 54 (1992): 647-61.
O'Donnell, Thomas. "Politics & Ordinary Language." College English 58 (1996): 423-39.
Week 5 - Rhetorical
February 3, 2011
Facilitation: Kim C.
Kennedy, George. "A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25.1 (1992): 1-21.
Connors, Robert J. "The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse." College Composition and Communication 32 (1981): 444-55.
Bitzer, Lloyd. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 1.1 (1968): 1-14.
Vatz, Richard. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 6.3 (1973): 154-161.
Consigny, Scott. "Rhetoric and Its Situations." Philosophy and Rhetoric 7.3 (1974): 175-186.
Week 6 - Collaborative
February 10, 2011
Facilitation: Megan B. & Ashley A.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind.'" College English 46.7 (November 1984): 635-52.
Bleich, David. "Collaboration and the Pedagogy of Disclosure." College English 57.1 (January 1995): 43-61.
Lunsford, Andrea and Lisa Ede. "Rhetoric in a New Key: Women and Collaboration." Rhetoric Review 8 (1990): 234-41.
Schliefer, Ronald. "Disciplinary and Collaboration in the Sciences and Humanities." College English 59.4 (April 1997): 438-52.
Week 7 - Cultural Studies
February 17, 2011
Facilitation: Adam F.
Bartholomae, David. "Inventing the University" (MADE AVAILABLE BY INSTRUCTOR)
Bizzell, Patricia. "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need To Know About Writing." Pre/Text 3.3 (1982): 213-43.
Miller, Richard E. "Fault Lines in the Contact Zone." College English 56.4 (1994): 389-408.
Ohmann, Richard. "Graduate Students, Professionals, Intellectuals." College English 52.3 (1990): 247-57.
Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Profession 91 (1991): 33-40.
Week 8 - Critical
February 24, 2011
Facilitation: Kevin V.N. & Becky W.
Giroux, Henry. "Liberal Arts Education and the Struggle for Public Life: Dreaming About Democracy." South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (1990): 297-324.
Hairston, Maxine. "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing." College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 179-93.
Lynch, Dennis A. "Teaching Rhetorical Values and the Question of Student Autonomy." Rhetoric Review 13 (1995): 350-70.
Simon, Roger. "Empowerment as a Pedagogy of Possibility." Language Arts 64 (1987): 370-82.
Smith, Jeff. "Students' Goals, Gatekeeping, and Some Questions of Ethics." College English 59 (1997): 299-320.
Week 9 - SPRING BREAK
Week 10 - Feminist
March 10, 2011
Book review due
Facilitation: Jensie S. & Gia H.
Annas, Pamela. "Style as Politics: A Feminist Approach to the Teaching of Writing." College English 47 (1985): 360-71.
Flynn, Elizabeth A. "Composing as a Woman." College Composition and Communication 39 (1988): 423-35.
Holbrook, Sue Ellen. "Women's Work: The Feminizing of Composition." Rhetoric Review 9 (1991): 201-29.
Johnson, Cheryl. "Participatory Rhetoric and the Teacher as Racial/Gendered Subject." College English 36 (1994): 409-419.
Lamb, Catherine E. "Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition." College Composition and Communication 42 (1991): 11-24.
Week 11 - Basic Writing
March 17, 2011
Facilitation: Joshua D. & Amanda D.
Adams, Peter Dow. "Basic Writing Reconsidered." Journal of Basic Writing 12 (1993): 22-36.
Bartholomae, David. "The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum." Journal of Basic Writing 12 (1993): 4-21.
Bizzell, Patricia. "What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College." College Composition and Communication 37 (October 1986): 294-301.
Horner, Bruce. "Discoursing Basic Writing." College Composition and Communication 47 (May 1996): 199-222.
Shaugnessy, Mina P. "Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing." College Composition and Communication 27 (October 1976): 234-239.
Week 12 - Technology
March 24, 2011
Facilitation: Tara M. & Melodie B.
Bernhardt, Stephen A. "The Shape of Text to Come." College Composition and Communication 44 (1993): 151-75.
Eldred, Janet M. "Pedagogy in the Computer-networked Classroom." Computers and Composition 8.2 (1991): 47-61.
Haas, Christina. "How the Writing Medium Shapes the Writing Process: Effects of Word Processing on Planning." Research in the Teaching of English 23 (1989): 181-207.
McGee, Tim and Patricia Ericsson. "The Politics of the Program: MS Word as Invisible Grammarian." Computers and Composition 19 (2002): 453-70.
Selfe, Cynthia L. "Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention." College Composition and Communication 50.3 (1999): 411-36.
Week 13 - Pecha Kucha!
March 31, 2011
Pecha kucha presentations
Week 14 - Peer Review (online; Dr. Schirmer in Atlanta)
NO CLASS
Project drafts due
Week 15 - Debriefing
April 14, 2011
Revised project drafts due
Week 16 - Exam Week
Self-evaluative reflections due