Summer Planning

Readings

Presentation 1: Writing Before College (Graham)
Presentation 2: A Summary of Four Longitudinal Studies on Writing Development During
Presentation 3: Error in College Writing (Lunsford/Lunsford)
College Years (Sommers/Saltz, Haswell, Curtis/Herrington, Stanford Study of Writing)
Presentation 4: What We Know About Plagiarism (Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices)
Presentation 5:

In Hesse’s section “On Academic Writing and Discourse Communities: A Primer” Hesse tells the story of the increasing specialization of the academy and the implications of this process for discourse. He argues that, whereas, once, the academy could be defined as a single discourse community with shared conventions for communication, since the latter part of the 19th century, colleges and universities have been comprised of multiple discourse communities, each of which have developed their own epistemologies and genres and conventions for communication.

Hesse identifies and challenges a number of commonly held assumptions:

Colleges and universities form a single coherent discourse community with conventions of communication that span all communities within the larger community.

Generalized writing courses, taught by those outside of specialized academic discourse communities, can prepare students to communicate effectively in such communities.

Truth or knowledge are discovered outside of or apart from rhetoric (writing is a matter of conveying content or that which has already been discovered)

What interests/suprises you about Hesse’s discussion of academic discourse communities and their conventions for communication and/or the way in which students learn to communicate in academic discourse communities? What questions does this passage raise for you? How can you connect it with your experience as a teacher, student, or scholar?

Bb: Primary Posts and Secondary posts
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Morning Afternoon HW:
Day 1 Getting to know Each Other/Presentation 1: Writng Before College Reading: Hesse (1-6) & Bb Discussion Board Post Read “Making Writing Assignments, Especially Formal Ones” (15-17); Bb: Describe/brainstorm an assignment you have already taught and would like to revisit or one you would like to teach.
Day 2 Presentation 2: Longitudinal Studies on Writing Development During the College Years;