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Weekly Schedule Notes: It's hard to get to a 7:50 class. I'll need coffee; so will you. So, starting the second week of classes, every Monday we meet at the Dining Center. Get breakfast and do your best thinking over a cup of hot coffee. Every W we meet in the Jepson G20 lab for hands-on work with online materials and student writing. Readings, video work, and commentary are due by the day under which they are listed. Journals are due when I announce them, but always have them for Monday reading discussions. Student
Writing and Academic Expectations
M 8/27: Policies, Procedures and Orientation to Syllaweb; some discussions about writing W 8/29: Bartholomae, D. "Inventing the University" (4 Keys) & Wingate, M. "Writing Centers as Sites of Academic Culture" (e-reserve) Start meeting at D-Hall every Monday: Start bringing your journal! M 9/3 : Perry, V. "My Teacher Hates Me!" (e-reserve) and Downs, D. & Wardle, E. "Teaching about Writing" (e-reserve) W: Writing Workshop with an Eng. 103 or Core paper M 9/10: Ritter, K. "The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition" (e-reserve), Rose, M. "The Language of Exclusion" (4 Keys), & Yother, B. "Helping Students Write Literary Analyses"(e-reserve), W: Rutgers' plagiarism exercise "Writing From Sources," in class. Where peer-tutoring fits in: Theory, Practice, Priorities: M 9/17: North, S. "The Idea of a Writing Center" (St. Martin's Sourcebook), & Murray, D. "Teaching the Other Self: The Writer's First Reader" (4 Keys) W: Video Work : "The Fix-it Shop" from "Training for Tough Tutorials" (review scenes before class & complete feedback form in class). M 9/24: Shaparkenko, "Focus on Focus" (e-reserve), Bartholomae, D. "The Study of Error" (e-reserve) W: Commentary exercise in class (download and write commentary before we meet): "What
if Drugs Were Legal?" M 10/1: Glover, C. & Stay, B. "Grammar in the Writing Center" (e-reserve), Ryan, L. Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, Ch. 4, Lanham's Paramedic Method (Writer's Web) W: Video Work : "The Grammar Tutorial" from "Training for Tough Tutorials (review scenes before class & complete feedback form in class). The
role of written commentary
M 10/8: Straub, R. "Concept of Control in Teacher Response," Gorkemli, S. "This is a Redneck Argument!," (e-reserve) & McGlaun, S. "Reflections on Teacher Comments" (e-reserve) W: Ryan, L. Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors (ch. 1&3--ignore exercises), Bader, A. "Do's and Don'ts" of Writing Commentary (Writer's Web)Video Work: "The Offensive Paper" and "The Strong Paper" from "Training for Tough Tutorials (review scenes before class & complete feedback form in class). NOTE FOR MIDTERM PREPARATION: print and bring to class a piece of your writing (at least three pages) along with the assignment, to trade w/ a classmate for a commentary midterm exam after break. You may bring an ongoing assignment for a current class or an old paper. Before the exam, you may e-mail your writer, me, or classmates any questions you have about the paper you are reviewing. Questions about the assignment should go to the professor who wrote it. Fall BREAK: Oct 13-16. Class will meet again W. Oct. 17. ¡Buen Viaje! Conferencing
techniques and issues
W Oct. 17: Midterm in Class. You will: 1) Hold a conference (no more than 20 minutes) with the classmate with whom you traded papers, then prepare Writing Center Reports (using me as the professor). Review Before the Midterm: Tips for Effective Conferences & Reports & An Awful Report & a Good One Freed, S. "Subjectivity in the Tutorial Session," Brooks, F. "Minimalist Tutoring" & Shamoon, L. & Burns, D. "A Critique of Pure Tutoring" (all in St. Martin's Sourcebook) M 10/22: Ryan. L. Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, Ch. 8. & Sherwood, S. "Apprenticed to Failure: Learning from the Students We Can't Help," (e-reserve). W: Video Work: Each group does one in class: "The Angry Writer," The Demoralized Writer," or "The Bloody Paper" from "Training for Tough Tutorials" Interpersonal & Cultural
Issues
M 10/29: Haynes-Burton, C. "Thirty-Something Students" (St. Martin's Sourcebook), Smith, A. "Non-traditional Students in the Writing Center," & Gardner, et. al. "Writing Center Ethics & Non-traditional Students" (e-reserve) W: Cogie, J. "In Defense of Conference Summaries" (e-reserve) Three tough interpersonal situations Video Work: Each group reviews video for one before class, then we discuss & do in-class reports: "The Friend," "The Nontraditional Student," and "The Student Athlete" from "Training for Tough Tutorials" Monday: Bosporus-Project Prospectus Due at start of class. M
11/5: Harris,
M. "Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center" (St. Martin's
Sourcebook) Video Work: "ESL Help" from "Training for Tough Tutorials" (review scenes before class & complete feedback form in class).& Two Business Letters M 11/12: Severino,C. "The Doodles in Context: Qualifying Claims about Contrastive Rhetoric," Moujtahid, B. "Influence of Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds on the writing of Arabic and Japanese Students of English," & Mosher, et al. "Creating a Common Ground with ESL Writers" (all are on e-reserve). Each student selects one of the three and e-mails me a detailed response. Meet in D-Hall or our classroom if needed; I will be away for a conference this week. W 11/14: Meet in Jepson; visit by Nuray Grove, Director of ESL Services--discussion of ESL issues and Writing Centers & teaching in Turkey for our final project Technology
and writing
M 11/19: Baron, D. "From Pencils to Pixels" & Cooper, G. et. al. "Protocols and Process in Online Tutoring" (St. Martin's Sourcebook) Thanksgiving break W 11/21-Sun 11/25 M 11/26: Breuch, L. "Tutor Time Commitment in Online Writing Centers." (e-reserve) W 11/30: Project workshop (Jepson Lab) Final
project week
M & W 12/3 & 12/7: Project workshop (Jepson Lab) F 12/7: Last day of class. Final work for Bosporus Project due. Main Page | Information | Resources | Communication | Class Journal | Schedule | Apprenticeships |