Instructor: Carter T 2:00 PM – 4:50 PM
This course provides new graduate teaching assistants in English with a theoretical, historical, and practical framework for teaching college writing. Class activities establish a scholarly background for UC’s English 1001 and 2089 offerings while also tracking major developments in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. Some of those developments feature writing process theory, student-centered instruction, cultural and embodied difference, multimodal writing, transferrable learning, and ethical assessment. As we address those concerns, participants practice leading discussion, they design a unit and rationale for an undergraduate writing class, and they produce a journal-length article on writing pedagogy.
Key readings include Hannah Rule’s Situating Writing Processes: Physicality, Improvisation, and the Teaching of Writing, Shawna Shapiro’s Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom, Ellen C. Carillo’s The Hidden Inequities of Labor-Based Contract Grading, and Kara Poe Alexander and colleagues’ Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer.