WK1 | 8.19/21 | Welcome to the Discipline chevron_right

Skorczewski, “From Playing the Role to Being Yourself: Becoming the Teacher in the Writing Classroom” (2005)
Fish, “What Should Colleges Teach?” (2009)
Bizzell, “Composition Studies Saves the World!” (2009)

WK2 | 8.26/28 | Origin Stories (or “Disciplinary Determination”) chevron_right

Trimbur, “Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination” (1993)
Lauer, “Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline” (1984)
“A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition”
“Composition: History & Theory”
Phelps, “The Case for Rhetoric & Composition as an Emerging Field” (2004)
Selections from Enculturation 5.1 and 5.2 (2003, 2004)

assignment/s: login, check out the interface, select an avatar, write a test post, comment on someone else’s test post

WK3 | 9.2/4 | Current Traditionalism / Modes of Discourse chevron_right

Freire, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education.” (1968/1970)
Berlin & Inkster,” Current-Traditional Rhetoric: Paradigm and Practice” (1980)
Connors, “The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse” (1981)
Crowley, “Response to Conners” (1984)
Hairston, “The Winds of Change” (1982)

assignment/s: request email access for readings/alternate site account (if desired); take a look at possible tech tools; do some blog posting (not required every week, but you might as well get started!)

WK4 | 9.9/11 | Punting Pedagogy in Favor of Football (No Class Meeting)

ENC 6700 will not meet this week due to the Boca campus closing on Friday (for a very important football game, according to the university president)

WK5 | 9.16/18 | Product to Process / Rhetorical Invention & Heuristics chevron_right

Galchen & Heller, “Can Writing Be Taught?” (2014)
Murray, “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” (1972)
Faigley, “Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal” (1986)
Perl, “Understanding Composing” (1980)
Lauer, “Issues in Rhetorical Invention” (1984); “Heuristics & Composition” (1970); “Toward a Metatheory of Heuristic Procedures.” (1979)

WK6 | 9.23/25 | Conveying Comments & Gauging Grades (Feedback & Assessment) chevron_right

Sommers, “Responding to Student Writing” (1982)
Faigley, “Ideologies of the Self in Writing Evaluation” (1992)
Elbow, “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Forms of Judgment” (1993)
Bloom, “Why I (Used To) Hate to Give Grades” (1997)
Haswell, “The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing; Or, Shortcuts via the Road of Excess” (2009)

WK7 | 9.30/10.2 | Assume the Position chevron_right

Bartholomae, “Inventing the Unversity” (1986)
Elbow, “Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process” (1983)
Murray, “The Listening Eye: Reflections on the Writing Conference” (1979)
Skorczewski, “From Playing the Role to Being Yourself: Becoming the Teacher in the Writing Classroom” (2005)

WK8 | 10.7/9 | 1101 Mid-Term Conferences (No Class Meeting)

Good luck with conferences! If you haven’t already, stake your claim for Writing Program: CSI.

WK9 | 10.14/16 | Expressivism & Audience (Elbow & Bartholomae Debate) chevron_right

Elbow, “Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience” (1987)
Bartholomae, “Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow” (1995)
Elbow, “Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals” (1995)
Bartholomae & Elbow, “Responses to Bartholomae and Elbow” (1995)

WK10 | 10.21/23 | Rhetoric as Epistemic chevron_right

RadioLab, “Words” (2008)
Emig, “Writing as a Mode of Learning” (1977)
Claire, “Rhetoric as Epistemic: Implications of a Theoretical Position” (1987)
Lauer, “Writing as Inquiry: Some Questions for Teachers” (1982)
Berlin, “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class” (1988)

WK11 | 10.28/30 | Rhetoric as Epistemic, Part 2 chevron_right
(readings redux)
RadioLab, “Words” (2008)
Emig, “Writing as a Mode of Learning” (1977)
Claire, “Rhetoric as Epistemic: Implications of a Theoretical Position” (1987)
Lauer, “Writing as Inquiry: Some Questions for Teachers” (1982)
Berlin, “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class” (1988)
WK12 | 11.4/6 | Post-Process & the End of -Isms chevron_right

Breuch, “Post-process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise” (2002)
Heard, “What Should We Do with Postprocess Theory?” (2008)
Arroyo, “Playing to the Tune of Electracy: From Post-Process to a Pedagogy Otherwise” (2005)

WK13 | 11.11/13 | TBA
Wednesday section will not meet on 11/11 due to FAU closing for the Veteran’s Day holiday.

tba

WK14 | 11.18/20 | Theory Camps… Represent

Theory | Camp | Scholar (Representations Presentations)

WK15 | 11.25/27 | Thanksgiving Holiday (No Class Meeting)

Have an excellent Thanksgiving/Fall Holiday/Brief Respite before finals!

WK16 | Finals Week

Wednesday Class, W 12.9, 7:00pm – 9:30pm

Friday Class, F 12.4, 4:00pm – 6:30pm

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