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 Aug. 26-30
We.28 Beginnings
Course Overview - How ENGL5454 Works
Three beliefs and introductions
Syllabus and schedule
Theory and practice interdependency
Commonplace Book introduced
2.Week of Sept. 2-6
We.4 Composition Studies, Orienting Premises
*Fulkerson,
"Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century," (CCC, online PDF) [60]
Hesse,
"We Know What Works in Teaching Composition" (CHE, online) [30]
NCTE Position Statement: Understanding and Teaching Writing: Guiding Principles (online) [30]
CCCC Statement on Preparing Teachers of College Writing (online) [30]
P1.Literacy Narrative introduced
3.Week of Sept. 9-13
We.11 Orienting Premises, cont., and Literacy Sponsorship (x1)
*Lunsford, "The Nature of Composition Studies" (PDF, Canvas)
[45]
Writing About Writing (WAW), "Literacies: How is Writing Impacted by Our Prior Experiences?" pp. 64-67
(WAW) [10]
*Brandt,
"Sponsors of Literacy" (WAW, 64-100) [75]
We.11 Composition Program Teaching Talk, 12:15-1:10 p.m. in Shanks 370/380
4.Week of Sept. 16-20
We.18 Relational Accountability; Pedagogies of _______ (x2)
*Powell, "Learning (Teaching) to Teach (Learn)" (PDF, Canvas)
[45]
*Lindquist and Halbritter, "Documenting and Discovering Learning: Reimagining the Work of the Literacy Narrative," (PDF, Canvas) [45]
hooks, Teaching to Transgress, Intro, Chs 1 and 2 (PDF, Canvas) [60]
In-class: Sponsor avatars
18 Wed – Title IX at Virginia Tech, presentation and Q&A by Kathryn Polidoro, Title IX Coordinator, 12:15-1:10 p.m., Shanks 370/380
21 Sat – Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference in Shanks
More at http://corridors.hokieswrite.com/
5.Week of Sept. 23-27 (conferences)
We.25 Writing (and Responding to Writing) as a Social Act
*Straub, "Responding--Really Responding--to Other Students' Writing," (WAW, pp. 44-55) [45]
*Lees, "Evaluating Student Writing" (PDF, Canvas)
[30]
Conferences in Shanks 315 - 3:35-5:15
DUE: P1.Literacy Narrative
6.Week of Sept. 30-Oct. 4 (x3)
We.2 What Rhetoric Does
*Writing About Writing (WAW), "Rhetoric: How Is Meaning Constructed in Context?" pp. 447-456
(WAW) [20]
Understanding Rhetoric (UR), 2nd ed. [90]
7.Week of Oct. 7-11 (x4)
We.9 Who Takes Composition at Virginia Tech and Why; Methods Sentential
Mueller, Program Overview for custom Understanding Rhetoric (UR Virginia Tech custom) [45]
Cook, "First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped,"
(BIAW, 24-29) [30]
Lisabeth, "Strunk and Write Set the Standard,"
(BIAW, 117-120) [30]
*Lanham, "Paramedic Method," (PDF, Canvas) [60]
Midterm course evaluation
Check-in: Commonplace book (evaluation-to-date)
8.Week of Oct. 14-18 (x5)
We.16 Economics of Composition
*Crowley, "A Personal Essay on Freshman English," Composition in the University, pp. 228-249 (PDF, Canvas) [75]
*Strickland, "The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies" (PDF, Canvas)
[45]
Fr.18 Dr. Kate Pantelides, Middle Tennessee State U., presentation (12:15-1:10) and workshop (2:30-4)
9.Week of Oct. 21-25 (x6)
We.23 Rhetorics Extended
*Downs, "Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning Making," (WAW, 457-483) [60]
*Roberts-Miller, "Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech," (BIAW, 7-12) [40]
P2.Worknets introduced
10.Week of Oct. 28-Nov. 1 (x7)
We.30 Rhetorical Analysis with Worknets
Witte, "Research Starts with Answers,"
(BIAW, 226-230) [30]
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]
11.Week of Nov. 4-8 (x8)
We.6 Assessment, Language
*Perryman-Clark, "African American Language, Rhetoric, and Students' Writing: New Directions for SRTOL," (PDF, Canvas) [60]
*Perryman-Clark, "Who We Are(n't) Assessing" (PDF, Canvas) [30]
*Dryer, "At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
Dynamic criteria-mapped rubrics
DUE: Half draft of P2. Worknets
Fr.8 Composition Program Teaching Talk, 12:15-1:10 p.m. in Shanks 370/380
12.Week of Nov. 11-15
We.13 The More Rhetorical Grammars You Know (x9)
Read the ENGL1105 curriculum map
*Tufte, "Short Sentences" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
*French, "A Good Crot Is Hard to Find" (PDF, Canvas) [45]
*Williams, selections from Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (PDF, Canvas) [60]
DUE: P2. Worknets
13-16 – Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference at JMU
13.Week of Nov. 18-22 (x10)
We.20
*Sirc, "The Still Unbuilt Hacienda,"
English Composition as a Happening, pp. 1-32 (PDF, Canvas) [60]
ENGL1105 Materials Workshop
DUE: Commonplace Book
14.Week of Nov. 25-29
We.27
No classes - Thanksgiving holiday break
15.Week of Dec. 2-6
Mo.2
Final slidedecks due by 11:59 p.m.
We.4
DUE: Micropresentations
16.Week of Dec. 9-13
Mo.9
DUE: All P3.ENGL1105 Materials no later than conference time
We.11
9-11 Conferences in 315 Shanks
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDProfessor
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Phone: +1-734-985-0485 (Google voice)
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/
