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Tentative reading List for my Fall practicum for graduate students, Theories and Practices of Writing, by semester section:
Intro to Writing Theory
A Guide to Composition Pedagogies eds Greg Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick
Somebody say Grammar?
Joseph Williams “Phenomenology of Error”
Patrick Hartwell “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar”
Nancy Sommers “Responding to Student Writing”
Inventing Which University?
David Bartholomae “Inventing the University”
Geoffrey Sirc “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols”
Kathy Blake Yancey and Michael Spooner “Petals of a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration and the New Essay”
Joseph Harris “Revision as Critical Practice”
Cultural Studies/The Postmodern
James Berlin “Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, and the Composition Classroom.”
Victor Vitanza. “‘The Wasteland Grows’: Or, What is ‘Cultural Studies for Composition’ and Why Must We Always Speak Good of It?"
And online talk of same name:
http://www.uta.edu/english/V/berlin/vjvcultstudies.html
Marshall Alcorn. “Changing the Subject of Postmodernist Theory: Discourse, Ideology, and Therapy in the Classroom.”
Susan Miller “Technologies of Self? – Formation.”
Poststructuralism/Writing
Cynthia Haynes "Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory"
Gregory Ulmer “Kubla Honky Tonk”
Replies: 2 comments
Hi John
The practice will come from the application of the various theoretical assumptions we read and place in conversation with one another. I.e. - designing (and then doing) a major assignment based on one or more of the readings and constructing a syllabus to use the next semester when they start teaching.
Posted by j @ 07/14/2004 09:25 AM EST
Jeff, I'll be a little self-serving here. Your course reading list is quite good. But you have the word "practices" in the course title, but have no source addressing where most of the "practice" of college composition occurs, namely community colleges. There's Howard Tinberg's book, Mark Reynolds' collection, and I have a couple of articles. Won't some of your students teach in CCs? Shouldn't they do some reading/thinking about comp in that environment?
Also, TYCA is developing a document on the Two-year college Teacher Scholar which will be ready for NCTE meeting in Indianapolis in November.
John
Posted by John @ 07/13/2004 11:07 PM EST