Seminar, Fri, 9/05

Thoughts and Questions About This Course

Process (1)

Fastwrite(s)

• Connect two passages: (1) from an r1 post or comment, and (2) from Section 1  of Cross-Talk. The rule is: You need to  bring us to passages that have not been mentioned in previous posts or comments, and you need to relate them.
• Imagine that, as a teacher of E110, you are in some way charged with teaching the process of writing an academic essay. List three to five keywords you would use in doing so, and explain why you’ve chosen them.

A wordcloud of the terms we generated in our discussion.

Process (2)

Fastwrite

• Almost all of the r1 series of posts and comments focus on three essays from Cross-Talk: Murray, Perl, Sommers. Take us to a passage in one of the other pieces (Emig, Ong, Ede and Lunsford, Kastman Breuch), and show how this passage usefully extends, counters, or complicates one of the pieces we have so far been focussing on.

E110 Weeks 1-2

Some Well-Known Student Texts in Composition, continued  [pdf]

• Emily Dickinson, “My Life had stood  – a Loaded Gun,” Jayne Relaford Brown (1863/2000)

To Do

1. Wed, 9/10, 8:00 pm: Read selections from Cross-Talk, pp. 127–391. Post r2 to this site.
2. Thurs, 9/11, 8:00 pm: Read the r2 posts by your classmates. Comment on at least three of them.  Post at least one tweet to the #688 hashtag on Twitter.
3. Fri, 9/12, 9:00 am: Read the first essay in Berger’s Ways of Seeing. Review the materials and lesson plans for the first three weeks of my Spring 2014 E110 class.
4. Wed, 9/17, 8:00 pm: Read selections from Sections 3 and 4 of Cross-Talk. Post r3 to this site. Post r2 to this site.
5. Thurs, 9/18, 8:00 pm: Read the r3 posts by your classmates. Comment on at least three of them.  Post at least one tweet to the #688 hashtag on Twitter.

 

Seminar, Fri, 8/29

Introductions

Fastwrite

1. Recount an aha moment you’ve had as a student of writing. Try to describe not only what you learned but the experience of learning it. Think in terms of setting, event, action, change.
2. Describe the opposite, an epic fail as a student of writing, a moment you recall as a setback or embarrassment.  Again, think in terms of setting, event, action, change.
3. Pick one of your narratives to read as a way of introducing yourself to the rest of this class.

Joe Harris, “Teaching ‘By Hand’ in a Digital Age“

Some Logistics

• WordPress
• Twitter

Aims and Plan

A First Look at E110

Some Well-Known Student Texts in Composition [pdf]

• “The Freshman at Composition,” Josephine Miles (1951)
• Lynn, “Terpsichordean Greetings,” Janet Emig (1971)
• “Seeing and Hearing,” Mina Shaughnessy (1977)
• Tony, Writing Sample, Sondra Perl (1979)
• “The Clay Model” Paper, David Bartholomae (1986)
• Emily Dickinson, “My Life had stood  – a Loaded Gun,” Jayne Relaford Brown (1863/2000)

To Do

1. Wed, 9/03, 8:00 pm: Read Cross-Talk, pp. 1–125. Post r1 to this site.
2. Thurs, 9/04, 8:00 pm: Read the r1 posts by your classmates. Comment on at least three of them.  Post at least one tweet to the #688 hashtag on Twitter.
3. Wed, 9/10, 8:00 pm: Read selections from Sections 2 and 3 of Cross-Talk. Post r2 to this site. Post r2 to this site.
4. Thurs, 9/11, 8:00 pm: Read the r2 posts by your classmates. Comment on at least three of them.  Post at least one tweet to the #688 hashtag on Twitter.