| Week | Date | Topics, Readings, Assignments, Deadlines |
| 1 | Aug. 24 | Introduction to the course / Literacy narrative(s) Read: Sherman Alexie Nancy Sommers |
| 2 | Aug. 31 | The Parameters of the Task at Hand Read: Ball and Loewe* Chapter: “America is Facing a Literacy Crisis” (Jacob Babb) Chapter: “First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing” (Tyler Branson) Chapter: “You Can Learn to Write in General” (Elizabeth Wardle) Chapter: “Some People are Just Born Good Writers” (Jill Parrott) |
| 3 | Sept. 7 | Parameters II: Parameter Harder Read: Ball and Loewe* Chapter: “Strunk and White Set the Standard” (Laura Lisabeth) Chapter: “There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking” (Anjali Pattanayak) Chapter: “Teaching Grammar Improves Writing” (Patricia A. Dunn) Chapter: “Grammar Should be Taught Separately as Rules to Learn” (Muriel Harris) |
| 4 | Sept. 14 | A Slightly Wider View Read: Tate, et al. (pp. 1-19) Crowley, The Invention of Freshman English* Parker, Where Do English Departments Come From?* Matsuda, Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity* |
| 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* |
| 6 | Sept. 28 | Mhm, Yeah, People Read Inoue, chs. From Labor-Based Assessment Cedillo and Bratta |
| 7 | Oct. 5 | Can We Circle Back to This “People” Thing? Read: Williams, Phenomenology of Error* Hartwell, Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar* Tech changes writing (Recs desired) |
| 8 | Oct. 12 | Just Checked Again. Definitely Human People Read: Perryman-Clark (SRTOL) Vershawn Young (code-meshing) (Recs desired) Translingualism (Recs desired) |
| 9 | Oct. 19 | Parameters III: Electric Boogaloo Read: Corder, Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love* Powell, Learning (Teaching) to Teach (Learn)* hooks, Engaged Pedagogy* Brooke, Underlife and Writing Instruction* |
| 10 | Oct. 26 | Process, Now with More People! Read: Prendergast, Can I Use I? Kristi Fleckenstein’s “An Appetite for Coherence: Arousing and Fulfilling Desires.” Something about multimodality (Recs desired) |
| 11 | Nov. 2 | ELECTION DAY – Politics in the Classroom Read: Berlin, Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class* Brodkey, Making a Federal Case Out of Difference* Kahn? (Recs desired) |
| 12 | Nov. 9 | When Peers Talk Read: Meeks, “Givers Gain Teaching Philosophy”* ELI Review stuff Oleksiak, Slow Peer-Review |
| 13 | Nov. 16 | Hey, Teacher! Probably Shouldn’t Leave Those Peers (Totally) Alone Read: Ferris and Roberts, Error Feedback in L2 Writing Classes* Darsie Bowden Robillard, We Won’t Get Fooled Again* |
| 14 | Nov. 23 | Grading Read: Inoue, chs. From Labor-Based Assessment Lunsford and Lunsford, Mistakes Are a Fact of Life* |
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