SEP 1

WRITING PROCESS(ES)

Alfred Fehr, “Student Notebook Containing Notes, Diagrams, and Swatches,” via Art Institute Chicago

TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:

• Read the following articles:

  • Murray, “Teaching Writing as a Process, Not a Product”

  • Flower & Hayes, “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing”

  • Berlin, “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories”

• Complete your ‘Weekly Writing’ assignment and bring it to class.

  • 1-page memo: what are some of your own ‘writing stories’ and/or tensions you feel about teaching writing?

• It’s early, but if you want to claim a particular day to facilitate your Writing Experiment (i.e., the Teaching Experiment assignment), you can sign-up here.

IN-CLASS DOCUMENTS:

• Presentation, Week 2 Slides (coming soon)

SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES (THINGS I’LL DRAW FROM OR REFERENCE IN CLASS):

• Brotchie, A Book of Surrealist Games

• Collom, “Illot-Mollo and Other Games”

• Murray,The Essential Donald Murray: Lessons from America’s Greatest Writing Teacher

• Berlin, Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.

• Nichols and Campano, “Post-Humanism and Literacy Studies”