Current Assignments
Week 1
Day 1: Should First Year Composition (FYC) be required?
July 2 Mon.
- “The End of the College Essay” by Rebecca Shuman
- “Composition’s Ethic of Service, the Universal Requirement, and the Discourse of Student Need” by Sharon Crowley
- “Composition’s Abolitionist Debate: A Tool for Change” by Kevin Brooks
- “Abolish or Perish? Managed Labor in Composition: A Roundtable with Sharon Crowley” by Anthony D. Baker
- NCTE Policy Brief on “First-Year Writing: What Good Does it Do?”
- “Alternative Models of First-Year Composition: Possibilities and Problems” by Betty Bamberg
Day 2: Expressivism/Writing Process Theory
July 3 Tuesday
- “Freewriting Exercises” by Peter Elbow
- Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. 3-11.
- “Freewriting by Peter Elbow: short version
- “All Writing Is Autobiography” by Donald M. Murray
- College Composition and Communication, Vol. 42, No. 1. (Feb., 1991), pp. 66-74.
- Expressivist Composition Pedagogy by Peter Anderson
- “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” by Donald Murray
- “Engfish” by Ken Macrorie
- Uptaught. New York: Hayden Book Co, 1970. 9-18.
- “The Poison Fish” by Ken Macrorie
- Telling Writing, 4th ed., 1985
- “On Students’ Rights to Their Own Texts: A Model of Teacher Response” by Lil Brannon and C. H. Knoblauch
- College Composition and Communication Vol. 33, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 157-166
Day 3: U.S. Independence Day Holiday
July 4 Wednesday
- Holiday
- No Class
- Compose your The Story of Your Writing Life
Day 4: Writer Narratives
July 5 Thursday
- “Writing Stories in College” by Gian S. Pagnucci: In W. Bishop & J. Strickland (Eds.), The Subject Is Writing: Essays by Teachers and Students. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. Heinemann.
- “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose: Lives on the Boundary, 1989
- “Between the Drafts” by Nancy Sommers: College Composition and Communication 43.1 (Feb. 1992): 23-31.
Upcoming Assignments
Week 2
Day 5: Research Day
July 9 Monday
- No Class
- Dr. Pagnucci will be attending the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Summer Seminar
- Do research for your Comp Theory Paper
- Find and read 2 articles/book chapters related to your research topic
- Write an annotation of each article
Day 6: The History of Composition I (Historical Moments)
July 10 Tuesday
- “A Brief History of The Dartmouth Conference” by Christiane Donahue (2015)
- “Impact of the 1966 Seminar” by Christiane Donahue (2015)
- “The Dartmouth Conference: Its Reports and Results” by Jack R. Sublette: College English, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Dec., 1973), pp. 348-357
- Resolution on the Students’ Right to Their Own Language by the National Council of Teachers of English in 1974
- Students’ Right to Their Own Language–Position Statement of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): Special Issue of College Composition and Communication, Fall, 1974, Vol. XXV
- The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing by Maxine Hairston: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 76-88
- Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar by IUP Emeritus Professor Patrick Hartwell: College English, Vol. 47, No. 2, (Feb., 1985), pp. 105-127
- “In Memorium: Patrick M. Hartwell” by Don McAndrew and Jim Strickland: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Feb., 2001), pp. 345-346
- Podcast: “Grammar & the Kolln/Hartwell Debate” by Mere Rhetoric
Day 7: The History of Composition II (Historical Accounts)
July 11 Wednesday
- “Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” by Richard Fulkerson: College Composition and Communication 56 (June 2005): 654-687.
- “Four Philosohphies of Composition” by Richard Fulkerson: College Composition and Communication 30 (Dec. 1979): 343-48.
- “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” by James A. Berlin: College English 44 (Dec. 1982): 565-767.
- “British Invasion: James Britton, Composition Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity” by Russel K. Durst: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Feb., 2015), pp. 384-401
Day 8: Cognitivism
July 12 Thursday
- “Writing as a Mode of Learning” by Janet Emig: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 28, No. 2. (May, 1977), pp. 122-128.
- “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers” by Sondra Perl: Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 317-336
- “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” by Nancy Sommers: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 378-388
- “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” by Linda Flower and John R. Hayes: College Composition and Communication 32.4 (Dec., 1981) pp. 365-387.
- “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing” by Patricia Bizzell: Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 3:3 (Fall 1982): 213-43.
Week 3
Day 9: Social Constructionism
July 16 Monday
- “Collaboration and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” by Kenneth A. Bruffee: College English, Vol. 46, No. 7 (Nov., 1984), pp. 635-652
- “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae: Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1986
- “Collaboration and Concepts of Authorship” by Lisa Ede and Andrea A. Lunsford: PMLA, Vol. 116, No. 2 (Mar., 2001), pp. 354-369
- “A Pedagogy of Mulitliteracies: Designing Social Futures” by The New London Group: Harvard Educational Review: April 1996, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 60-93.
- Recommended: “Collaborative Pedagogy” by Rebecca Moore Howard: Tate, G., Taggart, A. R., Schick, K., & Hessler, H. B. (2014). A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford University Press, 54-70.
Day 10: Writing Day
July 17 Tuesday
- No Class
- Work on writing draft of comp theory paper
Day 11: Finding Forrester
July 18 Wednesday
- Watch Finding Forrester (2000)
- Directed by Gus Van Sant
- Written by Mike Rich
- Bring snacks to share
- Paper Drafts Due
Day 12: Paper Draft Day
July 19 Thursday
- Individual meetings with Dr. Pagnucci to discuss paper drafts
Week 4
Day 13: Post-Process Theory
July 23 Monday
- “Introduction” by Thomas Kent: Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm, Thomas Kent, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999)
- Review by Kevin J. Porter of Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm, Thomas Kent, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999): JAC 710-715
- “Post Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise by Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch: JAC 22.1 (2002)
- “Of Pre- and Post-Process: Reviews and Ruminations by Richard Fulkerson: Composition Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2001
- “The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline” by Gary A. Olson: Composition Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2000
Day 14: Presentations I
July 24 Tuesday
July 24 Tuesday
- Individual presentations on Comp Theory
Day 15: Presentations II
July 25 Wednesday
- Individual presentations on Comp Theory
Day 16: Can Composition Make the World a Better Place?
July 26 Thursday
- “Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World!” by Patricia Bizzell: College English, Volume 72, Number 2, November 2009
- “Traveler’s Tales” by Gian S. Pagnucci: (2006). Writing stories in college. In W. Bishop & J. Strickland (Eds.), The Subject Is Writing: Essays by Teachers and Students. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. Heinemann.
- Class wrap up
- Comp Theory Paper Due