August 596 Workshop - Schedule
The following schedule lists the times, locations, and activities for the two-week August 596 Workshop, August 14-18 and 21-24, 2017. All events will be held in PH415 unless otherwise noted in-line. All instructional staff in the FYWP (i.e., TTF, FTLs, PTLs, and returning GAs) are invited to attend activities marked as OPEN and showing asterisks (*).
Monday, August 14
For Monday: Read Andrea Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies" (in Welcome Kit), the FYWP Program Guide (front matter in Understanding Rhetoric and EasyWriter) and Introduction to Writing About Writing.
9 Introductions and Opening Questions (Google Drive Notes)
10 Teaching College Composition: Compass Points, Locations, Itineraries
11 Share maps; Connections with Lunsford and WAW reading
12 Lunch provided
1 Fast Write on "Compass Points"
1:15 *Presentation of WRTG120 Syllabus and Curriculum Map* OPEN
2:30 How do students enroll in WRTG120? GSP Instrument
3:00 Program Principles and Outcomes
3:45 Exit ticket
Tuesday, August 15
For Tuesday: Read Deborah Brandt's "Sponsors of Literacy" (Welcome Kit and WAW) and "Writing Your Own Literacy Narrative" (PDF pp. 53-54) in Welcome Kit. Bring one printed copy of your literacy narrative.
9 Sharing Literacy Narratives
10 Guest: Rachel Gramer, Associate Director of the FYWP^
11 Why "projects" when we could call them papers, essays, or assignments?
Rationale for Project One (Generating principles)
12 Lunch provided
1 Guest: Mary Ramsey, English Language and Literature Dept. Head^
1:15 Student literacy narrative(s)
2:30 Work time (beginning to fine-tune your syllabus)
3:30 Generating questions (in Google Docs)
3:45 Daily reflection
Wednesday, August 16
For Wednesday: Read Malea Powell, "Learning (Teaching) to Teach (Learn)" (from Welcome Kit); Brock Dethier, c. 4, "The First Day" (FYWP GA Drive); Understanding Rhetoric, Ch. 3, "Writing Identities"
9 Writing in the contexts of teaching and learning (Powell)
10 Questions and sticking points re: syllabus development (Alyse Lindley, Laura Kovick)
11 *Tour of offices* OPEN
12 Lunch provided
1:15 Phones, copies, key codes, class rosters, etc.
2 Class time and planning
3 Teaching personas (Ch. 3 from UR)
Thursday, August 17 - Fall Meeting and Workshop - Pray-Harrold 219
For Thursday: Read pp. 37-117 in Understanding Rhetoric.
Leaf through EasyWriter, noticing sections you think align well with your plans for the fall.
9:15 *Program-wide Fall Meeting (Mueller)
10-11 *Featured workshops:
Workshop Hour One (Choose one of the following):
10-11 Rachel Gramer, "Process"
10-11 Logan Bearden, "Rhetoric"
10-11 Derek Mueller, "Conventions"
Workshop Hour Two (Choose one of the following):
11-12 Rachel Gramer, "Reflection"
11-12 Logan Bearden, "Multimodality"
11-12 Derek Mueller, "Conventions"
12 *Lunch (provided) and conversation
1 *Attendee lightning presentations 2-3 minutes on adjustments you made to your assignment or activity from the morning
2:30 *One on one and small group meetings with Mueller.
Friday, August 18
For Friday: Read pp. 49-57 in Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks, "Responding to Student Writing"; Richard Straub, "Responding—Really Responding—to Other Students' Writing" (WAW) and Elaine Lees, "Evaluating Student Writing" (FYWP GA Drive)
9 *Project One and Invention Portfolio – How It Works
Creating your class calendar/daily schedule
10 Responding and grading
Sample student work
11:30 Lunch provided
12:30 Guest: TBD, Center for Multicultural Affairs
2:15 Panel with returning and recent GAs
(Darcie Rees, Charlotte Oehler, Alyse Lindley, Stephanie Reynolds)
3:30-5 *Happy hour at ABC/Corner Brewery* OPEN
720 Norris Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48198
Monday, August 21
For Monday: Read Brock Dethier, c. 2, "Preparing" (FYWP GA Drive); and "Peer Review and Revision," pp. 163-176, from Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks)
9:30 Peer response (enacted)
10:10 Peer response (meta)
11:15 Technology and Multimodality in WRTG120 (Stephanie Reynolds)
12:30 Lunch on your own
1:30 Theory and practice (phronesis) in WRTG596
Rhetorics and Poetics
N+7, Acrostics, Pantoum, crots, four-word film reviews, six-word memoirs, neologisms, fives (example)
2:30 Work time (continuing to develop materials)
Tuesday, August 22
For Tuesday: Leaf through EasyWriter, noting striking or useful sections. Read Anne Curzan's column in The Chronicle, "Dinging for 'Grammatical Errors'"
9 Project Two and Three Frameworks
10 Overview of University Writing Center
Guests: Ann Blakeslee, Dir. of the UWC, and Kimberly Pavlock, Asst. Dir. of the UWC^
11 *EasyWriter* OPEN
12 Lunch on your own
1 *Understanding Rhetoric* OPEN
2 *Panel (PH415)* OPEN
Julia Heck, Associate Director, Office of the Ombuds^
LaMarcus Howard, Associate Director, Disability Resource Center^
Lisa Lauterbach, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)^
Sean Woolfe, Interim Associate Dir., Office of Student Conduct, Community Standards, and Wellness
3 Dev. choices for Wednesday a.m.
Wednesday, August 23
For Wednesday: Read Brock Dethier, c. 7, "Confident and Humble" (FYWP GA Drive)
9 GAs choose topics
(see Google Docs Notes)
10 Assignment sheets and lesson plans
11 Guest: Chalice Randazzo, Assistant Professor of Written Communication^
-- Workshop Evaluation Survey
12 Lunch provided
1 Teaching Demos (i.e., practice run in rooms and with technology setup)
Thursday, August 24
No new reading.
10 *Work time with laptop cart* OPEN
How do I reserve the laptop cart?
Focus on Canvas features for all who will be using it
11-2 Individual conferences (PH613M)
2-4 *Individual conferences (PH613M)* OPEN
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDAssociate 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/
