exwr481-fall 1997 schedule

EXWR 481-01

fall 1997

schedule of readings and assignments

the week of Tues., Sept. 2 and Thurs., Sept. 4

introductions

computer instruction on Thursday

Friday, Sept. 5 midnight: AVF 1 discussion entries are due

Monday, Sept. 8 noon: Paper 1 due

the week of Tues., Sept. 9 and Thurs., Sept. 11

welcome to the "new paradigm"

readings for Tuesday:

Maxine Hairston's "The Winds of Change

James Berlin's "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class"

Richard E. Miller's "The Nervous System"

Emily Fawcett's "Like, it was, you know, like, know what I mean?"

Podis handout

Sunday, Sept. 14 midnight: Paper 2 due

the week of Tues., Sept. 16 and Thurs., Sept. 18

what peer tutoring is really like

readings for Tuesday:

Katie Gilmartin's "[Working at the desk in Mudd. . . .]"

Tisha Turk's "On Working With A Class"

Anita Stone's "Scientific Writing: What's So Difficult About It Anyway?"

Matthew Passell's "Tutoring in Writing and Economics"

"Miriam Axel-Lute's "Consciousness, Frustration, and Power"

Thomas Carnicelli's "The Writing Conference"

Optional Readings:

"Some Tips for Employing Tutors"

"Ideas for Incorporating Tutors into the Class"

Leonard A. Podis's "Training Peer Tutors for the Writing Lab"

Sunday, Sept. 21 midnight: AVF 2 due

the week of Tues., Sept. 23 and Thurs., Sept. 25

responding to student writing

readings for Tuesday:

Nancy Sommers's "Responding to Student Writing"

Richard Straub's "The Concept of Control in Teacher Response"

Peter Elbow's "Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking"

Optional Readings:

Muriel Harris's "Composing Behaviors of one-and Multi-Draft Writers"

Deborah Appleman and Douglas E. Green's "Mapping the Elusive Boundary"

Noelle Howey's "The Dilemmas of Grading"

Jenny Love's "Learning from Writer's Block"

Sunday, Sept. 28 midnight: revision of Paper 2 due

the week of Tues., Sept. 30 and Thurs., Oct. 1

mediating between home languages and academic languages

readings for Tuesday:

Cheryl D. Field's "Ebonics 101"

David Bartholomae's "Inventing the University"

Peter Elbow's "Reflections on Academic Discourse

Monica Bielsky's " "

Optional Reading:

Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay's "The Location of Ebonics"

the Oakland School District Web sites

Sunday, Oct. 5 midnight: Paper 3 due

the week of Tues., Oct. 7 and Thurs., Oct. 9

working with sentence level/grammar problems

readings for Tuesday:

Joseph M. Williams's "The Phenomenology of Error"

Patrick Harwell's "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar"

Min-Zhan Lu's "Silence to Words"

Optional Reading:

Arthur A. Stern's "When Is A Paragraph?"

Sunday, Oct. 12 midnight: AVF 3 due

the week of Tues., Oct. 14 and Thurs., Oct. 16

midterm course evaluation

Friday, Oct. 17 midnight: revision of Paper 3 due

the week of Tues., Oct. 21 and Thurs., Oct. 23

FALL RECESS

no class this week

have a safe and happy break

the week of Tues., Oct. 28 and Thurs., Oct. 30

the role of writing in Mike Rose's sites of

American public education

discussion of Mike Rose's Possible Lives on both Tuesday and Thursday

Sunday, Nov. 2 midnight: stage one of Paper 4 due

the week of Tues., Nov. 4 and Thurs., Nov. 6

EAL students and the multicultural writing class

readings for Tuesday:

Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone"

Vivian Zamel's "Strangers in Academia"

Sunday, Nov. 9 midnight: AVF 4 due

the week of Tues., Nov. 11 and Thurs., Nov. 13

gender issues and the teaching of writing

readings for Tuesday:

Joy S. Ritchie's "Confronting the 'Essential Problem'"

Wendy Hesford's " "

Donovan Hohn's "'The Me Experience': Composing as a Man"

Optional Reading:

Sue Ellen Holbrook's "Women's Work"

Sunday, Nov. 16 midnight: stage two of Paper 4 due

the week of Tues., Nov. 18 and Thurs., Nov. 20

homophobia and the writing classroom

readings for Tuesday:

Richard E. Miller's "Fault Lines in the Contact Zone"

Rebecca Phares and David Schwam's "Writing Inside Out"

Sunday, Nov. 23 midnight: AVF 5 due

the week of Tues., Nov. 25 and Thurs., Nov. 27

learning disabilities and the teaching of writing

readings for Tuesday:

Jennifer Wewers's "Writing Tutors and Dyslexic Tutees

web sites

no class on Thursday for Thanksgiving

Monday, Dec. 1 noon: stage three of Paper 4 due

the week of Tues., Dec. 2 and Thurs., Dec. 4

educational technology and the teaching of writing

readings for Tuesday:

Richard Lanham's "The Extraordinary Convergence"

KAIROS Web site

Sunday, Dec. 7 midnight: stage four of Paper 4 due

the week of Tues., Dec. 9 and Thurs., Dec., 11

the profession of teaching writing

readings for Tuesday:

Richard E. Miller's "Composing English Studies"

Grace Chang's "Contextualizing the Debates"

Optional Reading:

Maxine Hairston's "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" with "Counterstatement" by John Trimbur

Sunday, Dec. 14--final papers due by 6 pm

have a safe and happy winter break

last updated 24 August 1997

email questions or comments to jan.cooper@oberlin.edu

http://www.obelrin.edu/~jcooper/tutors/schedule.html