CCR 607 Schedule, Fall 2004

Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 237 HB Crouse
Office hours: Mondays 1-3; Thursdays 2:30-4; and by appointment
Telephone: 443-1620
E-mail: rehoward@syr.edu
Home page http://wrt-howard.syr.edu

Schedule of Assignments
CCR 607, Composition Pedagogy


Fall 2004
Time: 10-12:50 Tuesdays
Place: 020 HB Crouse
Course website: http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Syllabi/607F04/Syl607F04.html


August 31

Composition pedagogy in historical context

September 7

Prospects for studying composition pedagogy

September 14

Philosophies and practices of pedagogy

To prepare for class,

  1. Read all of Hillocks, and prepare to explain what you find most useful from this work.
  2. Choose a writing option for this course.
In class,
  1. We'll discuss the writing options for the course.
  2. Each class member will explain what s/he finds most useful from Hillocks.
  3. Working from Hillocks' taxonomy, we'll collaboratively construct a rubric for course observations.

September 21

To prepare for class,
  1. Send me an email telling me which writing option you have chosen for the course. In that email, tell me the dates on which you expect to be sending class observation analyses.
  2. Read Price, Margaret. "Beyond 'Gotcha!': Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy." College Composition and Communication 54.1 (September 2002): 88-115.
  3. Write a summary of the Price source.
  4. Write up one classroom observation. Bring copies to class to share.
In class,
  1. We'll discuss the Price argument, not only for what it says about plagiarism but also for its underlying models of pedagogy.
  2. We'll read each others' summaries of Price; discuss the summarizing techniques that we each used; and decide how the chapter summaries for the remainder of the semester should be written in order to be of the greatest use to the class members.
  3. We'll read and discuss the class observation analyses that members have written.
  4. We'll watch a videotape of a Syracuse undergraduate writing class and apply our classroom observation rubric to this teaching event.
  5. We'll decide whether our class observation rubric needs to be revised at this time.

September 28

To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
  1. Clark Ch. 1, Process (Jeremiah)
  2. Clark Ch. 2, Invention (Vanessa)
  3. Clark Ch. 3, Revision (Aleshia)
  4. Tate, Process (Enass)
In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

October 5

To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
  1. Clark Ch. 4, Audience (Tyra)
  2. Clark Ch. 8, Grammar (Enass)
  3. Clark Ch. 9, Non-Native (No one has to summarize this chapter, but everybody is responsible for reading it carefully.)
  4. Tate, WAC (Aleshia)
In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

October 12

Individual conferences (@ 30 minutes) to discuss coursework to date
Aleshia: 10-10:30
Enass: 10:35-11:05
Jeremiah: 11:10-11:40
Tyra: 11:45-12:15
Vanessa: 12:20-12:50
To prepare for your appointment, send me an email by October 10, telling me what issues you most want to discuss, e.g., your writing for the course; your teaching or consulting; the way class discussions are taking shape; the assigned readings.

October 19

To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
  1. Harris Ch. 1, Rationale (Enass)
  2. Harris Ch. 2, Shapes & Purposes (Aleshia)
  3. Harris Ch. 3, Activities (Jeremiah)
  4. Harris Ch. 4, Diagnosis (Vanessa)
In class,we'll begin with Vanessa's postponed presentation of Clark Ch. 2; we'll engage in intensive discussion of Clark Ch. 9, which everyone will have read with care; and then we'll discuss today's assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

October 26

Writing center pedagogy. Guest Vivian Rice, SU Writing Center administrator.

To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.

  1. Tate, Basic Writing (Tyra)
  2. Tate, Writing Centers (Enass)
  3. Harris Ch. 5, Strategies (No one has to summarize this chapter, but everybody is responsible for reading it carefully.)
In class,
  1. We'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.
  2. We'll view a tape of a writing consultation and analyze it in the context of assigned class readings.
  3. We'll collaboratively draft a rubric for consultation observation analyses.

November 2

To prepare for class,
  1. Meet with Vivian Rice and arrange to conduct however many consultation observations are indicated in your writing option. You should hand in your consultation observation analyses on November 16.
  2. Read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
  • Clark Ch. 7, Voice (Jeremiah)
  • Tate, Expressive (Vanessa)
  • Tate, Collaborative (Tyra)
    • In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

    November 9

    To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
    1. Clark Ch. 5, Assessment (Aleshia)
    2. Tate, Community Service (Tyra)
    In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

    November 16

    To prepare for class,
    1. Write up your consultation observation analyses.
    2. Meet with Vivian Rice and arrange to consult in the Writing Center for at least four hours by December 6.
    3. Read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
  • Clark Ch. 10, Diversity (No one has to summarize this chapter, but everybody is responsible for reading it carefully.)
  • Tate, Cultural Studies (Vanessa)
  • Tate, Critical Pedagogy (Jeremiah)
    • In class,
    1. Hand in your consultation observation analyses.
    2. We'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

    November 23

    To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
    1. Clark Ch. 11, Electronic (Vanessa)
    2. Tate, Technology (Aleshia)
    3. Clark Ch. 6, Genre (Tyra)
    In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

    November 30

    To prepare for class, read the following sources. People whose names are in parentheses are responsible for summarizing the source.
    1. Tate, Rhetorical (Jeremiah)
    2. Tate, Feminist (Enass)
    3. Tate, Critical Pedagogy (EVERYBODY)
    In class,we'll discuss the assigned readings, with discussion of each source led by the person who summarized it.

    December 7

    1. Collaborative reflection on the semester's work; all written work due.
    2. Course evaluation

    December 13

    Individual conferences to discuss the semester's work



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