| Week | Date | Topics, Readings, Assignments, Deadlines |
| 1 | Aug. 24 | Introduction to the course / Literacy narrative(s) Read: Alexie, Superman and I Skinnell, Reading as an Act of Insubordination Sommers, I Stand Here Writing Optional: Explore DALN (https://www.thedaln.org/#/home) |
| 2 | Aug. 31 | Parameters of the Task at Hand Read: Ball and Loewe* Chapter: “America is Facing a Literacy Crisis” (Babb) Chapter: “First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing” (Branson) Chapter: “You Can Learn to Write in General” (Wardle) Chapter: “Some People are Just Born Good Writers” (Parrott) |
| 3 | Sept. 7 | Parameters II: Parameter Harder Read: Lunsford and Lunsford, Mistakes Are a Fact of Life* Ball and Loewe* Chapter: “Strunk and White Set the Standard” (Lisabeth) Chapter: “There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking” (Pattanayak) Chapter: “Grammar Should be Taught Separately as Rules to Learn” (Harris) |
| 4 | Sept. 14 | Looking Back, Looking Forward Read: Crowley, The Invention of Freshman English* Matsuda, Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity* Ruiz, Introduction to the Field of Composition: Politics from the Start* Optional: Rhetoricity podcast, Andrea Lunsford (https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com/rhetoric-she-wrote-andrea-lunsford-on-the-discipline-and-its-histories) Optional: Parker, Where English Departments Came From* |
| 5 | Sept. 21 | Wait, It’s People We’re Teaching? Read: Royster, When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own* Bloom, Freshman Composition as a Middle-Class Enterprise* Rose, Language of Exclusion* Optional: Rhetoricity podcast, April Baker-Bell (https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com/demanding-black-linguistic-justice-an-interview-with-april-baker-bell) |
| 6 | Sept. 28 | Mhm, Yeah, Definitely People Read Cedillo and Bratta, Relating Our Experiences* Inoue, ch 1 (pp. 21-48) and Coda (pp. 305-312) from Labor-Based Assessment |
| 7 | Oct. 5 | Can We Circle Back to This “People” Thing? Read: Williams, Phenomenology of Error* Green, Expanding the Dialogue on Writing Assessment at HBCUs Hawisher and Selfe, Becoming Literate in the Information Age Optional: Hartwell |
| 8 | Oct. 12 | Just Checked Again. Definitely Human People Read: Young, Should Writers Use They Own English? Perryman-Clark, African American Language, Rhetoric, and Students’ Writing Gilyard, Rhetoric of Translingualism Alvarez, Translanguaging Tareas |
| 9 | Oct. 19 | Parameters III: Parameter Again Read: hooks, Engaged Pedagogy* Powell, Learning (Teaching) to Teach (Learn)* Brooke, Underlife and Writing Instruction* Optional: Sinister Myth podcast, Sherita Roundtree Optional: Fedukovich and Morse, Failures to Accommodate: GTA Preparation as a Site for a Transformative Culture of Access |
| 10 | Oct. 26 | Process, Now with More People! Read: Tate, et al. (pp. 1-19) Prendergast, Can I Use I? Kynard, Teaching While Black Fleckenstein, An Appetite for Coherence Optional: Green, Pedagogue podcast https://www.pedagoguepodcast.com/blog/episode-31-david-f-green-jr |
| 11 | Nov. 2 | Process II: Keep Peopling! Read: Brodkey, Making a Federal Case Out of Difference* Corder, Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love* Alexander and Rhodes, Queerness, Multimodality, and the Possibilities of Re/Orientation* Optional: Mere Rhetoric podcast, Jody Shipka’s Composition Made Whole (https://mererhetoric.libsyn.com/lets-make-composition-whole-shipka) Optional: Shipka YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oj-HEG4-DA |
| 12 | Nov. 9 | When Peers Talk Read: Oleksiak, Queer Praxis for Peer Review* Meeks, Givers Gain Teaching Philosophy* Meeks, 3 Feedback Design Lessons* Hart-Davidson, Describe-Evaluate-Suggest (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdBRRQhYv4 Optional: Elbow, Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking |
| 13 | Nov. 16 | Hey, Teacher! Probably Shouldn’t Leave Those Peers (Totally) Alone Read: Ferris and Roberts, Error Feedback in L2 Writing Classes* Bowden, Student Perspectives on Paper Comments* Robillard, We Won’t Get Fooled Again* |
| 14 | Nov. 23 | Grading Read: Inoue, ch 3 & ch 4 Blum, TBD Stommel, TBD Optional: Inoue, ch 6 |
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