• Bean: Chapter 1 (by 1/28)
• Corbett:  Elbow, "Contraries" (by 1/28)
• WebCT: Macrorie, "The Poison Fish"; Lamott, "First Drafts" (by 1/28)

Week 2, Feb. 1:

• Straub: Sommers, "Responding"; Daiker, "Praise";
• Bean: Chapter 14
• Straub:  "What if Drugs" essay and comments (make yours first!)

Revision of Warm-up Essay, with Post Script; draft(s) optional

Think about Reading Response #1 and Short Project #1

Three more e-posts due by 2/7: Post & respond about a text; one extra post

Guest teacher tonight:

Week 3, Feb. 8:

• Bean:  Chapter 15
• Straub: Elbow, "Ranking"
• WebCT:  Sprinkle, "Written Commentary"
• Straub: "John Cougar" essay and comments

First Reading Response: Posted to WebCT

Schedule Short Project #1 Conference for next week

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 4, Feb. 15:

• Corbett:  Fulkerson, "Four Philosophies"
• JSTOR:  Mark Wiley, "Formulaic Writing"  English Journal 90.1 (2000)
  WebCT:  Freire, "Banking Education"

Assignment Prompt Draft (SP#2) due for workshop

Thinking about Exploration Essay, Part 1

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 5, Feb. 22:

• JSTOR: Linda Flower, "Writer-Based Prose"College English 41.1(1979)
• JSTOR:  Sommers, "Revision Strategies"  College Composition & Communication 31.4 (1980)

Draft of Exploration Essay due for workshop (2 copies, anonymous)

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 6, Mar. 1

• Corbett: Fahnstock & Secor, "Teaching Argument"
• Corbett: Lamb, "Beyond"
• Bean: Chapter 12
• WPA OS: http://www.wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html

Pedagogy Response #1

Short Project #2

Begin browsing for texts for SP #3

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 7, Mar. 8

• WebCT: Bartholomae, "Inventing the University"
• Corbett:  Murray, "Listening Eye"

Revised Exploration draft (+Post Script and drafts in folder)

Email top 3 composition-teaching questions/problems/scenarios by Monday

Mid-semester check-in:  E-posts, etc.

Choose issues and collaborative pairs/groups for Inquiry Project

Guest teacher tonight:

Computer classroom

• JSTOR:  Kenneth Bruffee, "Collaborative Learning"
  College English 46.7 (1984)
• JSTOR: Brooke, "Underlife" College Comp. & Comm. 38.2 (1987)
• Online: Leverenz, "Peer Response"Journal of Advanced Composition
  http://www.cas.usf.edu/JAC/141/leverenz.html

Short Project #3

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 9, Mar.29:

Computer classroom

• Corbett: Shaughnessy, "Diving In"
• WebCT:  Rose, "Average"
• WebCT (optional):  Herzberg, "Service Learning"

Reading Response #2 or Pedagogy Response #2

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 10, Apr.  5:

• ProQuest: Lisa Delpit, "The Silenced Dialogue" Harvard Educational Review 58 (1988)
• WebCT: J. Reid, "Issues in ESL Writing"
• WebCT (optional): Ferris, "L 1.5 Composition"

Inquiry Groups:  Outlines and/or drafts for in-class workshop (4 copies)

SP#4 "sketches" (3 copies)—bring your textbook(s)

Set up individual and/or collaborative conferences

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 11, Apr. 12:

• JSTOR:  Patrick Hartwell, "Grammar Grammars"Coll. Engl. 47 (1985)
• WebCT:  Devet, "Welcoming Grammar"
• WebCT (optional): Weaver, "Reconceptualizing"
• Bring a writing handbook; bring your SP#4 sketch

Group A:  Exploration Essay Revision & Expansion draft (2 copies)

Reading Response #2 or Pedagogy Response #2

Guest teachers tonight:

Week 12, April 19:

• JSTOR:  Rebecca Howard, "Academic Death Penalty"
  College English 57.7 (1995)
• WPA Plag.: http://www.wpacouncil.org/positions/index.html (PDF)
• GMU General Education Handbook, TBA

Group B:  Exploration Essay Revision & Expansion draft (2 copies)

Expanded SP#4: Second generation draft

Set up individual and/or collaborative conferences

Collaborative Inquiry Presentation?  Guest Teacher?

Week 13, Apr. 26:

• Corbett:  Hawisher & Selfe, "Rhetoric of Technology"
• Online:  Leslie Blair, "Teaching Composition Online"
• http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/8.2/binder.html?praxis/blair/index.html

SP#5:  Draft for workshop (3 copies)

Collaborative Inquiry Presentations:

Week 14, May 3:

• WebCT:  Nist & Raines, "Two-Year Colleges"
• Online:  Professional Position Statements (TBA)

Collaborative Inquiry Presentations

Portfolios & reflections, looking back and looking ahead