Composition Practicum

The syllabus assignment serves as the basis for your final portfolio.

Please post revisions of your two syllabi (English) or your syllabus (Comparative Literature) on your website in a way that makes it clear that these are your revised submissions.

Include the annotations mentioned in the assignment as headnotes or concluding notes in the syllabus document itself.

Key to these syllabi will be the

Assignment briefs in which you explain in a few sentences each “point-bearing” aspect of your course.

Course schedule that provides weekly (and an attempt at daily, if you’re teaching next semester) details about reading and writing students will be doing.

Read

• Perryman-Clark: “Racial Experience” (library link)
• Wilson: “Harlem” (library link)
• Bernstein: “Material” (reserves link)
• Masterson: “Feminism” (reserves link)

Writing/Performance

• Discussion leadership (selected students)

In Class

Endgame notes

Course evaluations

Discussion

• Praxis – Connor->”Disability Visible”
• Praxis – Sophia->”Material”
• Pedagogy – Brendan->”Anecdotal Relations”
• Pedagogy – Joe->”Racial Experience”
• Pedagogy – William->”Harlem”
• Pedagogy – Willem->”Feminism”

Reading

• Swartzendruber-Putnam: “Reflection” (library link)
• Amicucci: “Reflection” (web link)

Writing/Performance

Writing with literature syllabus due.

In Class

Thanksgiving break. Class will not meet.

Reading

• Kerschbaum: “Anecdotal” (web link)
• Kennedy & Menton: “Five Activities” (reserves link)
• Lindgren: “Body Language” (reserves link)
• Wilson: “Transform” (reserves link)

Writing/Performance

• Course description for “writing with literature” (CPLT 110; ENG 181)
• Discussion leadership (selected students)

In-Class

Course description sharing

Class Leadership

• Pedagogy – Sophia –>”Another Way”
• Pedagogy – Connor–>”Life into Text”
• Praxis – Hannah->”Reading, Writing, Thinking”
• Pedagogy – Brendan->”Anecdotal Relations”
• Pedagogy – Jess->”Body Language”
• Praxis – Connor->”Disability Visible”

Reading

• Moser: “Another Way” (library link)
• Lindblomb et al.: “Infographics” (library link)
• Elbow: “Life into Text” (reserves link)
• Bush et al.: “Literature-Based Professional Writing” (library link)
• Wolfe: “Strategies for Close Reading” (reserves link)
• Cplt 110 and Eng 181 Course Descriptions (Course Atlas)

Writing/Performance

• Fieldwork sharing (teaching observations)
• Class leadership (selected students)

In Class

• Fieldwork sharing
• Pedagogy – Sophia –>”Another Way”
• Pedagogy – Connor–>”Life into Text”
• “Writing with literature” forecasts

Guest speakers: Mandy Suhr-Sytsma and Writing Center fellows and tutors

Reading

• Fitzgerald, Lauren and Melissa Ianetta. The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors. Chapter 3: Tutoring Practices. (reserves link)
• Strategies: “Structure” (p. 219)
• EI: Chapters 10, & 11 – “Small Groups,” & “Lectures and Discussions”

Writing/Performance

• Bring three hardcopies of a revised version of one of the assignment sheets you’ve created during the past few weeks.
• Post CFDE minigrant proposal on your website (assignment).
• Class leadership (selected students).

In Class

Writing-Center Workshop

Praxis – Jess

Praxis – William

Guest speakers: David Morgen and Judith Levy

Reading

• Lunsford & Straub: “Twelve Readers” (reserves link)
• Ball: “Assessing Scholarly Multimedia” (reserves link)
• White: “Scoring Writing Portfolios” (reserves link)
• WIT: Chapter 11 – “Evidence”
• EI: Chapters 14 & 15 –  “Rubrics” and “Paper Load”

Writing/Performance

• Assignment Sheet 2  – Multimodality (assignment description): Embed the assignment as a PDF or Word Document in a post or page.
• Class leadership (selected students).

In-Class

Portfolio scoring

Praxis – Brendan

Pedagogy – Kayla

Read

• Anderson: “Multimedia” (link)
• Katz & Odell: “Presentation” (reserves link)
• Hunter: “Deaf Gain” (link)
• WIT: Chapter 10 – “Designing Arguments”

Write/ Perform

• Class leadership (selected students).

In Class

Jonathan – Praxis – WIT Designing Arguments

Joe – Praxis – Katz and Odell

Hannah – Pedagogy – Hunter

Willem – Pedagogy – Anderson

Guest Speakers: Shan Mukhtar and Levin Arnsperger from the ESL Program

Read

• Gillespie and Lerner, “Working with ESL Writers.” (reserves link)
• CCCC Statement on Second-Language Writing and Writers, 2009 Update (excerpts) (reserves link)
• Tony Silva, “On the Ethical Treatment of ESL Writers.” (reserves link)
• Joy Reid and Barbara Kroll, “Designing and Assessing Effective Classroom Writing Assignments for NES and ESL Students.” (reserves link)

Write/ Perform

Assignment Sheet 1 – Wild Genre (assignment description): Embed the assignment as a PDF or Word Document in a post or page and email link to Levin Arnsperger (larnspe@emory.edu) and Shan Mukhtar (smukhta@emory.edu) by 10am on Wednesday, October 11th.

Guest Speakers: Katie Rawson, Gabrielle Dudley, Melanie Kowalski – Woodruff Library

Reading

• Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (link) – assigned by Katie Rawson
• Smith: Owning Scholarship, pp. 25-37 (link) – assigned by Melanie Kowalski

 

• Trimmer: “We Wrote the Book” (reserves link)
• Moneyhun: “Literary Texts” (reserves link)
• Moskovitz & Kellogg: “Science” (reserves/library link)
• EI: Chapter 6 – “Assignments”
• Gardner: Chapter 4 – “New Tasks” (link) (skim, examine tables)

Write/ Perform

Class leadership (selected students)

In Class

Library Presentation

Copyright and teaching PowerPoint – Melanie Kowalski

Schedule Preview – “Assignment-Sheet Assignment”

Class Leadership

William – Pedagogy – Trimmer

Jess – Pedagogy – Moneyhun

Jonathan – Pedagogy – Moskovitz and Kellogg