Inoue – E688: Seminar in Teaching Composition

First, thanks for your thoughtful readings of Rewriting and your interesting extensions of my work in it! I very much enjoyed reading and participating in our first exchange.

We move in the coming week to First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice (FYC). Please read the first four chapters (Anson, Canagarjah, Hesse, Inoue) and write a response in which you ruminate about a move or practice that you think might prove useful in your own teaching of E110. On the Responses page of this site, I suggest that

you do one of two things in responding to each batch of four essays: (1) Link two or more of the pieces in order to identify a shared technique or insight you want to use in your own teaching, or (2) identify a distinctive move made by one of the writers that you’d like to adopt in designing or teaching your course.

Use R2 as your category and again think of three or four good tags for your post. R2 is due at 11:59 next Tues, 6/24, and comments are due at 11:59 on Thurs, 6/26.

For week four, the assignment is essentially the same, just adding the next four pieces in FYC (Matthieu, Redd, Reid, Shipka) to the mix. As we move into July, though, you will want to start thinking seriously about the structure of your E110 course and the documents you will need to create it. A first draft of those materials is due on Tues, 7/08.

To Do