English 846: Advanced Seminar in Literacy – Narrative Inquiry & Narrative Writing

Fall 2011

“Home is where your story begins”

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

Instructor Information

• Dr. Pagnucci’s Contact Information
• Dr. Pagnucci’s Office Hours

Course Information

• Semester: Fall 2011
• Banner Course Number (CRN): 12293
• Section: 001
• Computer Classroom: Leonard Hall – Room 213
• Meeting Times: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Mondays

Course Story (or Course Syllabus)

• Course Overview, Philosophy, Goals, & Expectations
• Course Work Policies
  • Attendance Policies
    • Roster Sheet
  • Course Grading
• Course Legend
  • Course Texts
  • Technology Requirements
  • Course Field Research Trip to Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Pittsburgh
• Course Assignments
  • Narrative Paper
    • Narrative Paper Proposal
    • Paper Conferences
    • Conferences Schedule

Course Legend

• Chapter 1: What Is Narrative Inquiry?
• Chapter 2: Getting Started Doing Narrative Inquiry
• Chapter 3: Crafting Stories
• Chapter 4: Telling Your Story
• Chapter 5: Living a Narrative Life
• Guide: Writing Effective Dissertations

Journals Related to Narrative

Preferred Journals

• English Education (focuses on public school issues)
• Narrative Inquiry (focuses on narrative research)
• Writing on the Edge (focuses on composition issues and stories)

Other Useful Journals

• Journal of Narrative Theory (journal aimed at theoretical explorations of narrative issues)
• Narrative (a literary journal)
• THEN (journal about Technology, Humanities, Education, and Narrative)

Course Resources

• Autoethnography
• The Centre for Narrative Research
• Center for Narratological Study
• The Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology (ICN)
• Project Narrative
• Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
• “Why Study Narrative? Education and Debate” (by Trisha Greenhalgh & Brian Hurwitz, 1999; article focusing on narrative-based medicine)

Bibliographies

• Narrative Bibliography
• Literacy Bibliography
• The Routledge Encylopedia of Narrative Theory (RENT)

Graduate Student Work

• Graduate Student Home Pages (Summer I, 2007)

Thanks

I want to thank IUP C&T alum Dr. Carrie Fitzpatrick who helped create the original design for this page along with locating many of the resources linked here.