Ideas for ENGL 379

Topics:

• Plagiarism and Patchwriting

• Genre as Social Action

• Intertextuality

Porter, James E. (1986). Intertextuality and the discourse community. Rhetoric Review, 5, 34–47.

Selzer, Jack. (1993). Intertextuality and the writing process: An overview. In Rachel Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp. 171–180). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.

• Identity and Composing

Ketter/Hunter

News Articles Which Reveal Common Conceptions About How Writing and the Teaching of Writing Works

Can Writing Be Assessed? (NY Times, Room For Debate, March 10, 2014)

Facebook Has Transformed My Students' Writing—for the Better (The Atlantic Monthly, 11/18/13)

The Sidney Awards, Part 2 (David Brooks, NY Times, 12/30/2013)

For PDFs of these articles and their comments, go to the folder in my New Research folder called "Visions of Writing."

Writing as Therapy/Healing (Pennebaker)

Writing and Healing from Trauma: An Interview with James Pennebaker

Facebook Has Transformed My Students' Writing—for the Better

Teaching in the Cloud: How Google Docs are Revolutionizing the Classroom

Any experienced English teacher knows the drill: on the dreaded due date, students bring printed copies of their essays to class, where we collect them, take them home, jot inscrutable comments in the margins, bring them back to class, return them, and then watch students promptly toss them in the recycling bin on the way out of the room. The whole cycle borders on farce....

Teaching in the Cloud: How Google Docs are Revolutionizing the Classroom

Gibbs Model of Reflective Writing

More on Gibbs model.

Confessions of a Not-So-Careful Proofreader

I appreciate the feedback. Your comments actually didn't really surprise me. I think I already knew that I make plenty of small mistakes (that I should not even be making at this point in my life). However it might stem from that fact that I never had a teacher who took the time to teach the class about grammar. Well... I can't remember ever having a teacher who did that. I spent a great amount of time trying to fix it and I hope it looks better. I think I probably need to edit my writing pieces more thoroughly and take my time with them. I admit that I don't look too closely at the structure of my sentences these days.