PART I CLASSROOM ISSUES
1 Preparing for the Course
FINDING OUT ABOUT THE COURSE
CHOOSING THE TEXTBOOKS
COMPUTERIZED LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
LINKS TO COMMUNITY SERVICE
CREATING A SYLLABUS
SAMPLE SYLLABI
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2 The First Few Days of Classes
THE FIRST CLASS
Bureaucratic Tasks
The Syllabus
Introductions
Dismissal
THE SECOND CLASS
Bureaucratic Tasks
Diagnostic Essay
Dismissal
After the Second Class
THE THIRD CLASS
LESSON PLANS
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3 Everyday Activities
CLASSROOM ORDER AND GROUP ETHOS
CLASSROOM ROUTINES
Limiting Lectures
Leading Effective Class Discussions
In-Class Writing
Teaching in Wired, Wireless, and Hybrid Classrooms
COLLABORATION: WORKSHOPS AND PEER RESPONSE
Whole-Class Workshops
Peer-Response Groups
Tasks for Peer-Response Groups
Online and Electronic Peer Response
Evaluating Peer-Response Groups
Understanding Cultural and Multilingual Differences in Peer-Response Groups
STUDENT CONFERENCES
Scripting the Conference
EVERYBODY’S ISSUES
Absenteeism and Tardiness
Late Essays
Plagiarism, Intellectual Property, and Academic Integrity
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4 Successful Writing Assignments
ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment Sequences
Assignments Based in Literature
Web Assignments
Oral Assignments
Assignments That Call for the Use of Visual Components
Defining Good Assignments
Creating Assignments and Explaining Them to Students
REVISION
SAMPLE ASSIGNMENTS
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5 Evaluating Student Essays
STANDARDS AND EVALUATION
Formal Standards
Standards of Content
Evaluating Formal Standards and Standards of Content When Responding to ESL Student Writing
GENERAL ROUTINES FOR EVALUATION
MARGINAL COMMENTS
TERMINAL COMMENTS
THE GRADE
METHODS AND CRITERIA FOR GRADING
Course-Based Grading Criteria
Rubrics
Contract Grading
Portfolio Grading 134
THE END OF THE TERM
Final Grades
STUDENT EVALUATIONS OF COURSE AND TEACHER
AFTERWORD
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PART II RHETORICAL PRACTICES
6 Teaching Invention
BRINGING THE RHETORICAL CANON OF INVENTION INTO THE WRITING CLASSROOM
HEURISTIC SYSTEMS OF INVENTION
Using Heuristic Strategies in the Classroom
CLASSICAL TOPICAL INVENTION
Using Classical Topical Invention in the Classroom
JOURNAL WRITING
Using Journals in the Classroom
Evaluating Journals
BRAINSTORMING
Using Brainstorming in the Classroom
CLUSTERING
Using Clustering in the Classroom
FREEWRITING
Using Freewriting in the Classroom
The Benefits of Freewriting
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7 Teaching Arrangement and Form
RHETORICAL FORM
CLASSICALLY DESCENDED ARRANGEMENTS
The Three-Part Arrangement
Using the Three-Part Arrangement in the Classroom
An Exercise for Small Groups
The Four-Part Arrangement
Using the Four-Part Arrangement in the Classroom
Two More-Detailed Arrangements
Using the More-Detailed Arrangements in the Classroom
OTHER PATTERNS OF ARRANGEMENT
Arrangements for Rhetorical Methods
Arrangements for Creative Nonfiction Essays
Using Arrangements for Creative Nonfiction Essays in the Classroom
An Exercise for Linking Invention and Arrangement
TECHNIQUES OF EDITING AND PLANNING
Using the Outline in the Classroom
Using Winterowd’s "Grammar of Coherence" Technique in the Classroom
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8 Teaching Style
STYLE: THEORY AND PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE
Milic’s Three Theories of Style
A Pedagogic Focus on Rhetorical Choices
Choosing a Rhetorical Stance
Considering the Audience for Student Essays
LEVELS OF STYLE
EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING STYLE
IMITATION
Using Imitation Exercises in the Classroom
LANGUAGE VARIETY
Teaching an Awareness of Language Variety
Language Varieties and Varying Syntax
ALTERNATE STYLES: GRAMMAR B
Using Alternate Styles in the Classroom
Evaluating Alternate Styles
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9 Teaching Memory
MEMORY IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM
REMEMBERING AND MAKING WRITING MEMORABLE: TEACHING MEMOIR AND PERSONAL WRITING
Invention
Memory as Communal
Research
Experience, Image, Idea
MEMORY AS DATABASE: TEACHING RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
INTERNET RESEARCH IN THE WRITING CLASS
The World Wide Web
A Web Exercise
RESEARCH WRITING IN THE CLASSROOM
A Model Five-Week Assignment
An Exercise for Formulating a Thesis
An Exercise in Revision
Additional Assignments
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10 Teaching Delivery
DELIVERING WRITING
DELIVERING PEDAGOGY
BLURRED BOUNDARIES: THE CHANGING NATURE OF WRITING, READING, AUDIENCE, AND CONTEXT
Teaching Blurred Boundaries: Establishing Goals — and Delivering on Them
Other Options for Exploring Blurred Boundaries in the Classroom
MULTIPLE LITERACIES
One Approach to Considering Multiple Literacies: Defining Computer Literacies
Using Selber’s Approach in the Classroom
Expanding Consideration of Multiple Literacies in the Classroom
DELIVERING PEDAGOGY: EXTRA-TEXTUAL SPACES
One Approach to Delivery in Extra-Textual Spaces
Using Taylor’s Approach in the Classroom
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11 Invitation to Further Study
WAYS INTO THE SCHOLARLY AND PEDAGOGICAL CONVERSATION
COMPOSITION/RHETORIC AND ITS CONCERNS
CENTRAL CONCERNS
The Content of First-Year Writing
Evaluation and Response
Diversity in the Writing Classroom
ANOTHER INVITATION TO FURTHER RESEARCH
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SUGGESTED READINGS FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING
Bibliographies and Other Reference Works
Rhetorical History, Theory, and Practice
Composition History and Theory
Composition Practice and Pedagogy
Literacy Studies
Axes of Difference
Computers, Technology, and New Media
FY Writing Programs: Models and Administrative Practices
Pedagogic Issues for College Teachers
PART III AN ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS
INTRODUCTION
WORK CITED
Janet Emig, Writing as a Mode of Learning
Robert J. Connors and Andrea A. Lunsford, Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research
Patrick Hartwell, Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar
Ilona Leki, Meaning and Development of Academic Literacy in a Second Language
Wendy Bishop, Helping Peer Writing Groups Succeed
Nancy Sommers, Responding to Student Writing
Lynn Z. Bloom, Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades
Jacqueline Jones Royster, When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own
David Bartholomae, Inventing the University
Mike Rose, The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University
Beverly J. Moss and Keith Walters, Rethinking Diversity: Axes of Difference in the Writing Classroom
Bruce Herzberg, Service Learning and Public Discourse
Andrea A. Lunsford and Cheryl Glenn, Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of Writing
Peter Elbow, The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn from the Other?
Cynthia L. Selfe, Toward New Media Texts: Taking Up the Challenges of Visual Literacy
Bruce Horner and John Trimbur, English Only and U.S. College Composition
Acknowledgments
Index