English 833: Theories of Composition — Course Assignments (Summer 2019)

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Previous Assignments

• “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
  • The Leaflet (November 1972): 11-14
• “Engfish” by Ken Macrorie
  • Uptaught. New York: Hayden Book Co, 1970. 9-18.
• “The Poison Fish” by Ken Macrorie
  • Telling Writing, 4th ed., 1985

• 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

• “Embodied Writing and Reflections on Embodiment” by Rosemarie Anderson

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