Tuesday, April 5: Teaching for Transfer

Read

Yancey, K., Robertson, L., & Taczak, K. (2014). Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing (1 edition). Logan: Utah State University Press.
Read Chapter 2: “The Role of Curricular Design in Fostering Transfer of Knowledge and Practice in Composition.”
Swales, John. “Create a Research Space.” (two pages) (reserves link)

Planning

In Class

Discuss “Writing, Visualizing, and Research Reports.”

Discuss CARS and Teaching for Transfer.

Summarize central idea or “mechanic of transfer.” Explain how this approach might inform a first-year writing class and a literature class.

  • “Naturalized” Transfer.
  • Writing About Writing.
  • Agents of Integration.

View excerpts from Take 20.

 

Tuesday, March 29: Multimodal Literacies, Part 2

Read

Bowen, T., & Whithaus, C. (2013). Multimodal literacies and emerging genres. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. (Project MUSE link)

  • Chapter 4: Something Old, Something New: Integrating Presentation Software into the “Writing” Course
  • Chapter 7: Multimodal Composing, Appropriation, Remediation, and Reflection
  • Chapter 8: Writing, Visualizing, and Research Reports

Write

Live tweet.

Discussion leadership.

Planning

In Class

1. Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 exploratory writing. Actions, assignments, connections to what came before and what comes next.

2. 4Cs Call and CARS preview.

3. Discussion.

Tuesday, March 22: Multimodal Literacies, Part 1

Read

Bowen, T., & Whithaus, C. (2013). Multimodal literacies and emerging genres. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. (Project MUSE link)

  • Chapter 1: Genre and Transfer in a Multimodal Composition Course
  • Chapter 2: Back to the Future? The Pedagogical Promise of the (Multimedia) Essay
  • Chapter 3: Including, but Not Limited to, the Digital: Composing Multimedia Texts
  • Chapter 12: Going Multimodal

Write

Live tweet.

Discussion leadership.

Planning

Tuesday, March 15: Disability and Teaching Writing

Read

Kershbaum, S. (2015). Anecdotal Relations: On Orienting to Disability in the Composition Classroom. Composition Forum, (32). Retrieved from http://compositionforum.com/issue/32/anecdotal-relations.php (link)

The following chapters from Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook:

Chapter 1: “Mapping Composition: Inviting Disability in the Front Door”

Chapter 2: “Tutoring Deaf College Students in the Writing Center”

Chapter 4: “Working from Normal: Critical Thinking and Disability in the Composition Classroom”

Write

English 101 Course Description Draft.

Live tweet.

Discussion leadership.

Planning

In-Class

Sign up for next discussion leadership (March 22 or March 29).

Tuesday, March 1: Action, Embodiment, and Performance

Read

Hunter, L. (2015). The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, (8). Retrieved from http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-embodied-classroom-deaf-gain-in-multimodal-composition-and-digital-studies/ (link)

Kress, G. R. (2001). Multimodal teaching and learning : The rhetorics of the science classroom. London ; New York: Continuum. Read the following chapter.

Sirc, G. (2002). English Composition As A Happening (1 edition). Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=usupress_pubs Read the following chapter.

  • Chapter 0: The Still-Unbuilt Hacienda (link)

Wilcox, H. N. (2009). Embodied Ways of Knowing, Pedagogies, and Social Justice: Inclusive Science and Beyond. NWSA Journal, 21(2), 104–120. (reserves link)

Write

Live tweet.

Discussion leadership.

Planning

  • March 15 (Next class meeting): Eng 101 Course Description Draft Due.
  • April 5: Eng 101 Syllabus Draft Due.
  • April 19: Research Proposal Due.

In-Class

 

 

Tuesday, February 16: Digital Rhetoric, Part 2

Reading

Eyman, D. (2015). Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Read online at links below. Physical copy on reserve at Woodruff Library.

Writing

Live tweet.

Discussion lead.

Preparing

Pedagogical Probe 1 is due next week on February 23.

In Class

1. Distant reading exercise with Voyant Tools and Voyant Tools Documentation (if necessary).

101-Corpus | 181-Corpus

2. Lightning presentations: Pedagogical probe

  • Major assignment
  • Small activities
  • Examples/models

3. Complete discussion of Digital Rhetoric.

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