Current Assignments
Chapter 1: Should First Year Composition (FYC) be required? (1995/2020)
- “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
- “Alternative Models of First-Year Composition: Possibilities and Problems” by Betty Bamberg
- NCTE Policy Brief on “First-Year Writing: What Good Does it Do?”
Upcoming Assignments
Chapter 2: Current Traditionalism (1875)/Writing Process Theory/Expressivism (1970s)
Due Aug. 31 Monday
Due Aug. 31 Monday
- Discussion Post and Responses to Chapter 1 Materials
- “Freewriting Exercises” by Peter Elbow
- Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. 3-11.
- “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
- The Leaflet (November 1972): 11-14
- “Engfish” by Ken Macrorie
- Uptaught. New York: Hayden Book Co, 1970. 9-18.
- “The Poison Fish” by Ken Macrorie
- Telling Writing, 4th ed., 1985
Past Assignments
Chapter 1: Should First Year Composition (FYC) be required? (1995/2020)
- “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
- “Alternative Models of First-Year Composition: Possibilities and Problems” by Betty Bamberg
- NCTE Policy Brief on “First-Year Writing: What Good Does it Do?”
Chapter 2: Current Traditionalism (1875)/Writing Process Theory/Expressivism (1970s)
Due Aug. 31 Monday
Due Aug. 31 Monday
- Discussion Post and Responses to Chapter 1 Materials
- “Freewriting Exercises” by Peter Elbow
- Writing without Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. 3-11.
- “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
- The Leaflet (November 1972): 11-14
- “Engfish” by Ken Macrorie
- Uptaught. New York: Hayden Book Co, 1970. 9-18.
- “The Poison Fish” by Ken Macrorie
- Telling Writing, 4th ed., 1985
For Chapter 3: Labor Day
Sep. 7 Monday
Sep. 7 Monday
- No Zoom Meeting
- No D2L Discussion Posts or Responses Due
Due Sep. 14 Monday
- Discussion Post and Responses to Chapter 2 Materials
- If you have a Teaching Philosophy Statement, you will want access to it BUT do NOT re-read it for now because I want you to start on a vision fresh (you can review your old one after we get going on the new one)
- “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
- Requires login via IUP account
- You are NOT required to Post on the Chapter 4 Materials (and Chapter 3 was a holiday so no posting for that either)
For Chapter 5: The History of Composition Studies I (Historical Accounts)
Due Sep. 21 Monday
- “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
- Your Teaching Vision Statement First DRAFT DUE
- Discussion Post and Responses to Chapter 5 Materials
For Chapter 6: Cognitivism
Due Sep. 28 Monday
Due Sep. 28 Monday
- “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.
- Your Teaching Vision Statement DUE
Chapter 7: Literacy Stories
Oct. 5 Monday
- No assignment is due for this class meeting
- No D2L Discussion Posts or Responses Due
Chapter 8: Independent Research Day
Oct. 12 Monday
- No Zoom Meeting
- No D2L Discussion Posting Is Required
- Work on Your Teacher Story First DRAFT
- Work on research for Your Theory of Teaching Article
For Chapter 9: Social Constructionism
Due Oct. 19 Monday
- Your Teacher Story First DRAFT DUE
- “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.
- “Collaboration and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” by Kenneth A. Bruffee: College English, Vol. 46, No. 7 (Nov., 1984), pp. 635-652
- Requires login via IUP account
- “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.
For Chapter 10: Post-Process Theory
Due Oct. 26 Monday
Due Oct. 26 Monday
- Your Teacher Story DUE
- CAL Student Assessment: Summary of Carol Dweck TED Talk DUE
- “Introduction” by Thomas Kent
- Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm, Thomas Kent, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999)
- “Of Pre- and Post-Process: Reviews and Ruminations by Richard Fulkerson: Composition Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2001
- “Post Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philosophical Exercise by Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch: JAC 22.1 (2002)
- Requires login via IUP account
- “The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline” by Gary A. Olson: Composition Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2000
- “Present-Process: The Composition of Change” by Jessica Yood
- Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2005
For Chapter 11: Can Composition Save the World?
Nov. 2 Monday
- Stanley Fish (January 23, 2003). Save the world on your own time. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Bizzell, Patricia. (2009). Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World! College English 72(2).
- Williams, Deborah. How First-Year Comp Can Save the World. Inside Higher Ed, 2 Jan. 2020, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/02/benefits-applying-best-aspects-composition-classes-higher-education-general-opinion. Accessed 4 July 2020.
- Five Essential Components for Social Justice Education Heather W. Hackman
- McCoy, Shane A. (Winter 2020). Writing for justice in First-Year Composition (FYC). Radical Teacher, 116, 26-36.
For Chapter 12: Finding Forrester
Nov. 9 Monday
- View film Finding Forrester
- Your Theory of Teaching First DRAFT DUE
- Your draft may be short (just a few pages) or complete (the full length), whatever suits your needs as a writer best
- Submit in D2L by 11:30 p.m.
For Chapter 13: Paper Conferences
Week of Nov. 16
- Conference with Dr. Pagnucci about Your Theory of Teaching First DRAFT
- Paper conferences will be held using Dr. Pagnucci’s Zoom Room:
- Dr. Pagnucci’s Zoom Personal Meeting Link: https://iupvideo.zoom.us/my/pagnucci
- Dr. Pagnucci’s Zoom Personal Meeting ID: 724 357 1701
Chapter 14: Thanksgiving Holiday
November 23 Tuesday
- Holiday
- No Zoom Meeting
- No D2L Discussion Posting Required
Chapter 15: Comic Book Pedagogy
Nov. 30 Monday
Chapter 16: Your Teacher Scholar Journey
Dec. 7 Monday
- The End of this Course Journey (but not the end of the journey)
- Class Celebration
- Writing Your Future
Chapter 17: Your Theory of Teaching DUE
Dec. 11 Friday
- No Zoom Meeting
- Your Theory of Teaching DUE