Summer Reading (2015)

The following essays/articles were taken from the WPA thread, "Best essays in our field for new writing instructors"

• Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts" 
• Don Daiker's "Learning to Praise" 
• Peter Elbow's "Embracing Contraries" (and the aforementioned "Ranking, Liking") 
• Michelle Tremmel's "What to Make of the Five-Paragraph Theme" TETYC 39.1 
• Margrethe Ahlschwede's "Writing to Save the World," from Moore & O'Neill's Practice in Context 
• Wendy Bishop's "Steal this Assignment: The Radical Revision" from the same volume 
• Kathi Yancey's "Reflection and the Writing Course" from Reflection in the Writing Classroom 
• Robert Brooke's "Underlife in the Writing Classroom" 
• Dawn Skorczewski's “From Playing the Role to Being Yourself” 
• Barbara Fister's "Why the Research Paper isn't Working" 
• Ferris & Roberts' "Error Feedback in L2 Writing Classes"
• Mike Rose's "The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University"
• Nancy Welch's "Sideshadowing Teacher Response"
• Peggy O'Neill: "From the Writing Process to the Responding Sequence." 
• "Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan" by June Jordan, here
• Villanueva, Victor "Memoria Is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourse of Color"
• Brannon and Knoblauch"s "On Students' Rights to Their Own Texts: A Model of Teacher Response."
• Min Lu's "Professing Multiculturalism"
• The New London Group's "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies"
• Joseph Harris's "Revision as a Critical Practice" here
• The introduction to Corbett and Connors, *Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student.
• "From a High-Tech to a Low-Tech Writing Classroom: You Can't Go Home Again" here
• Audience addressed/Audience invoked (Lunsford/Ede)
• Dana Lynn Driscoll and Jennifer Wells, "Beyond Knowledge and Skills: Writing Transfer and the Role of Student Dispositions"
• Heilker’s “Twenty Years in: An Essay in Two Parts” paired with Adam Banks’s 2015 CCCC address, “Funk, Flight, and Freedom.”
• Jerry Farber’s “Teaching and Presence” (2008)