Current Assignments
For Week 12: Finding Forrester
Due Nov. 11 Monday
- Bring movie snacks to share
Due Nov. 15 Friday by 4 p.m.
- Your Theory of Teaching First DRAFT DUE
- Your draft may be short (just a few pages) or complete (the full length), whatever suits your needs as a writer best
- Send your paper to Dr. Pagnucci (<pagnucci@iup.edu>) via email by 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15
- Label your email with Subject: 833 Theory Paper
For Week 13: Paper Conferences
Due Nov. 18 Monday
- Your Theory of Teaching First DRAFT DUE
- We will schedule your one-on-one conference with Dr. Pagnucci later to discuss Your Theory of Teaching First DRAFT
For Week 14: Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 25 Monday
Nov. 25 Monday
- NO CLASS MEETING!
For Week 15: Can Composition Make the World a Better Place?
Due Dec. 2 Monday
- “Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World!” by Patricia Bizzell: College English, Volume 72, Number 2, November 2009
Upcoming Assignments
For Week 16: Write Your Future
Due Dec. 9 Monday
Due Dec. 9 Monday
- Class wrap up
- Bring food for end of the semester celebration
For Week 17: Teacher Scholar Website DUE
Due Dec. 13 Friday
- NO Class Meeting
- Your Teacher Scholar Website DUE
Past Assignments
For Week 2: Labor Day
Sep. 2 Monday
Sep. 2 Monday
- NO CLASS MEETING!
For Week 3: Expressivism/Writing Process Theory
Due Sep. 9 Monday
Due Sep. 9 Monday
- “Freewriting Exercises” by Peter Elbow
- Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. 3-11.
- “Freewriting by Peter Elbow: short version
- “All Writing Is Autobiography” by Donald M. Murray
- College Composition and Communication, Vol. 42, No. 1. (Feb., 1991), pp. 66-74.
- Expressivist Composition Pedagogy by Peter Anderson
- “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” by Donald Murray
- “Engfish” by Ken Macrorie
- Uptaught. New York: Hayden Book Co, 1970. 9-18.
- “The Poison Fish” by Ken Macrorie
- Telling Writing, 4th ed., 1985
For Week 4: A Vision for Teaching Composition
Due Sep. 16 Monday
Due Sep. 16 Monday
- Items helpful to have for building Your Teacher Scholar Website:
- Bring a favorite quote
- Bring a digital picture of yourself (optional)
- Bring your digital CV (optional)
- Bring a sample paper (optional)
- Bring your Teaching Philosophy Statement (but don’t re-read it because we will be generating a new one; your old one might be useful for reference later)
For Week 5: The History of Composition (Historical Accounts)
Due Sep. 23 Monday
Due Sep. 23 Monday
- “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” by Richard Fulkerson: College Composition and Communication 56 (June 2005): 654-687.
- “Four Philosohphies of Composition” by Richard Fulkerson: College Composition and Communication 30 (Dec. 1979): 343-48.
- “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” by James A. Berlin: College English 44 (Dec. 1982): 565-767.
- “British Invasion: James Britton, Composition Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity” by Russel K. Durst: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Feb., 2015), pp. 384-401
- Your Teaching Vision Statement First DRAFT DUE
For Week 6: Cognitivism
Due Sep. 30 Monday
- “Writing as a Mode of Learning” by Janet Emig: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 28, No. 2. (May, 1977), pp. 122-128.
- “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers” by Sondra Perl: Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 317-336
- “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” by Nancy Sommers: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 378-388
- “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” by Linda Flower and John R. Hayes: College Composition and Communication 32.4 (Dec., 1981) pp. 365-387.
- Your Teaching Vision Statement Second DRAFT DUE
For Week 7: Holisitic Embodied Writing
Due Oct. 7 Monday
- Article: Nguyen, David & Larson, Jay. (2015). Don’t Forget About the Body: Exploring the Curricular Possibilities of Embodied Pedagogy. Innovative Higher Education. 40.
- Article: Anderson, Rosemarie. (2001). Embodied writing and reflections on embodiment. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. 33. 83-98.
For Week 8: Poetry Writing
Due Oct. 14 Monday
- Bring a notebook for writing
For Week 9: Literacy Stories
Due Oct. 21 Monday
- Begin researching Your Theory of Teaching Article
For Week 10: Social Constructionism
Due Oct. 28 Monday
- Your Teacher Story First DRAFT DUE
- “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing” by Patricia Bizzell: Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 3:3 (Fall 1982): 213-43.
- “Collaboration and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” by Kenneth A. Bruffee: College English, Vol. 46, No. 7 (Nov., 1984), pp. 635-652
- “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae: Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1986
- “Collaboration and Concepts of Authorship” by Lisa Ede and Andrea A. Lunsford: PMLA, Vol. 116, No. 2 (Mar., 2001), pp. 354-369
- “A Pedagogy of Mulitliteracies: Designing Social Futures” by The New London Group: Harvard Educational Review: April 1996, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 60-93.
For Week 11: Post-Process Theory
Due Nov. 4 Monday
- “Introduction” by Thomas Kent: Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm, Thomas Kent, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999)
- Review by Kevin J. Porter of Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm, Thomas Kent, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999): JAC 710-715
- “Post Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise by Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch: JAC 22.1 (2002)
- “Of Pre- and Post-Process: Reviews and Ruminations by Richard Fulkerson: Composition Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2001
- “The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline” by Gary A. Olson: Composition Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2000
- Your Teacher Story Second DRAFT DUE
For Week 12: Finding Forrester
Due Nov. 11 Monday
- Bring movie snacks to share