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Course Schedule

The following schedule offers a provisional plan for all work throughout the semester. We may revise it as needed. Square brackets listed after each reading express time estimates (i.e., baseline expectations for time-on-task). PDF readings are available for download in our Canvas course shell online.

1.Week of Jan. 21-25
We.23 Beginnings
Course Overview - How ENGL5004 Works
Three beliefs and introductions
Syllabus and schedule
Theory and practice interdependency
FemRhet proposal
Short Form Set introduced (DUE weekly)

2.Week of Jan. 28-Feb. 1
We.30 Believing/Doubting and Intersectionality
Butler, "Intersectionality and Liberal Education" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Elbow, "The Believing Game--Methodological Believing" (PDF, Canvas)[45]
Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
P1.Literacy Narrative introduced
P3.Commonplace Book introduced
We.30 Composition Program Teaching Talk, 12:20-1:10 p.m. in Shanks 370/380

3.Week of Feb. 4-8
We.6 What is Composition Studies? and Literacy Sponsorship
Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Brandt, "Sponsors of Literacy" (PDF, Canvas) [75]

4.Week of Feb. 11-15
We.13 Humane Pedagogies, Relational and Affective
Powell, "Learning (Teaching) to Teach (Learn)" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Lindquist, "Class Affects, Classroom Affectations: Working Through the Paradoxes of Strategic Empathy," (PDF, Canvas) [45]
hooks, Teaching to Transgress, Intro, Chs 1 and 2 (PDF, Canvas) [60]
In-class: Sponsor avatars

5.Week of Feb. 18-22
We.20 Still Unbuilt?, or Footings for a Curriculum
Understanding Rhetoric, 2nd ed. [90]
Mueller, Program Overview for custom Understanding Rhetoric (PFD, Canvas) [45]
Straub, "Responding--Really Responding--to Other Students' Writing," (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Lees, "Evaluating Student Writing" (PDF, Canvas) [30]
DUE: P1.Literacy Narrative

6.Week of Feb. 25-Mar. 1
We.27 Toad and Garden; Methods Sentential
Crowley, Composition in the University, 1-131 [120]
Lanham, "Paramedic Method," (PDF, Canvas) [60]

7.Week of Mar. 4-8
We.6 Economics of Composition
Crowley, Composition in the University, pp. 132-266 [120]
Strickland, "The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Midterm course evaluation
Check-in: P3.Commonplace Book

8.Week of Mar. 11-15
Virginia Tech Spring Break - No Classes

Th.14 Virginia Tech Get-together at CCCC in Pittsburg, 5-7 p.m., Sienna Mercato

9.Week of Mar. 18-22
We.20 Rhetoric
Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric" (PDF, Canvas) [60]
P2.Worknets introduced

10.Week of Mar. 25-29
We.27 Rhetorical Analysis with Worknets
Mueller, Clary-Lemon, Pantelides, "How to Move In and Out of a Text: Worknets and Invention" (draft, PDF, Canvas) [30]
Mueller, "Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy" (online, CF) [45]
We.27 Composition Program Teaching Talk, 12:20-1:10 p.m. in Shanks 370/380

11.Week of Apr. 1-5
We.3 Grading, Assessment, and GTA Professional Development
Dryer, "At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Perryman-Clark, "Who We Are(n't) Assessing" (PDF, Canvas) [30]
Adaptive criteria-based rubrics
DUE: Half draft of P2. Worknets

12.Week of Apr. 8-12
We.10 The More Rhetorical Grammars You Know
[Adjusted plan] Read the ENGL1105 curriculum map
And read one of the following on style for your SFS.
Tufte, "Short Sentences" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Kreuter, "The Ethics of Clarity and/or Obscuration" (online, CF) [45]
Williams, selections fromĀ Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (PDF, Canvas) [30]
Williams, selections fromĀ Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (PDF, Canvas) [45]
DUE: P2. Worknets
Fr.12 Composition and RW Program Lecture, Dr. Linda Flower, 12:15-1:15 p.m. in Shanks 370/380

13.Week of Apr. 15-19
We.17
Sirc, English Composition as a Happening, pp. 1-184 [180]

14.Week of Apr. 22-26
We.24
Sirc, English Composition as a Happening, pp. 185-294 and Bonus Track, pp. 311-313 [120]
ENGL1105 Materials Workshop
DUE: P3.Commonplace Book

15.Week of Apr. 29-May 3
We.1
DUE: Micropresentations

16.Week of May 6-10
We.8
7-9 Conferences in 315 Shanks
DUE: P4 ENGL1105 Materials

Contact Information

Derek N. Mueller, PhD
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Director of Composition
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Spring 2020 Office Hours: T, 12-3
Phone: +1-734-985-0485
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/

"[W]hat we teach our students is a consequence of what we understand writing to be" (215). Mary Lou Odom, Michael Bernard-Donals, and Stephanie Kerschbaum, "Enacting Theory: The Practicum as the Site of Invention," Don't Call It That: The Composition Practicum

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