Current Assignments
Week 4
For Day 12: Poetry Writing
Due June 17 Monday
For Day 13: Comic Book Pedagogy
Due June 18 Tuesday
- Read one comic book or the first chapter of a graphic novel (about 22 pages)
- I would strongly recommend visiting a real comic book shop for the experience and so you can actually purchase your own comic book
- SCG Hobby (Open until 8 p.m.)
- 1450 Oakland Ave. Unit 1; Indiana, PA 15701
- 724-349-1769
- Most comics are $5 or less and you can buy many back issues for only $1
- SCG Hobby (Open until 8 p.m.)
- If you prefer to read digitally:
- Amazon: Top 100 Free Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels
- Amazon also sells both digital and print comics
- Amazon: Top 100 Free Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels
- Or just visit your local library:
- Indiana Free Library
- 845 Philadelphia St.; Indiana, PA 15701
- 724-465-8841
- The Indiana Free Library has a nice collection of graphic novels
- A library card is free if you live in Indiana: Come in person to the Front Desk and bring proof of your current address, such as Driver’s License, utility bill or other “Proof of Residency” identification. We will make a card for you. There is no cost if you live within the Indiana School District. There is a $25.00 annual membership fee for those living outside the Indiana School District. Replacement cards may be purchased for .50 cents. If you have a current card with an AccessPA sticker from your home library, in another service area, an IFL card can be issued to you for FREE with Proof of Address.
- IUP Library
- The IUP Library has some excellent graphic novels, primarily because Dr. Pagnucci keeps putting them on the list whenever the annual book orders for the collection are requested
- Indiana Free Library
For Day 14: Can Composition Make the World a Better Place?
Due June 19 Wednesday
- “Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World!” by Patricia Bizzell: College English, Volume 72, Number 2, November 2009
For Day 15: Write Your Future
Due June 20 Thursday
- Class wrap up
- Bring food for end of the semester celebration
For Day 16: Teacher Scholar Website DUE
Due June 26 Wednesday
- NO Class Meeting
- Your Teacher Scholar Website DUE
Previous Assignments
Due May 29 Wednesday
- “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
Due May 30 Thursday
- 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 Day 4: The History of Composition (Historical Accounts)
Due June 6 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 DUE
For Day 5: Holisitic Embodied Writing
Due June 7 Tuesday
For Day 6: Cognitivism
Due June 8 Wednesday
- “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.
- “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.
For Day 7: Your Teacher Story
Due June 9 Thursday
- Begin researching your Theory of Teaching
Week 3
For Day 8: Social Constructionism
Due June 10 Monday
- Your Teacher Story DUE
- “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 Day 9: Language Theory
Due June 11 Tuesday
- Bakhtin, Mikhail, “Discourse in the Novel,” The Dialogic Imagination
- Read pages: 269-275, 288-294, and 301-308
- Everson, Barbara J. “Vygotsky and the Teaching of Writing,” The Quarterly
- Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar by IUP Emeritus Professor Patrick Hartwell: College English, Vol. 47, No. 2, (Feb., 1985), pp. 105-127
For Day 10: Finding Forrester
Due June 12 Wednesday
- Bring movie snacks to share
- Work on Theory of Teaching
For Day 11: Post-Process Theory
Due June 13 Thursday
- “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