REVISED Syllabus (subject to change due to exigencies of weather or class needs)

All assignments are posted on: http://www.litandwriting.umb.edu/spg07.htm

1/29:  Richard Rodriguez, “The Achievement of Desire,” and course introduction

2/5:  In Cross-Talk: Donald Murray, “Teach Writing as a Process not Product”; Janet Emig,     “Writing as a Mode of Learning”; Nancy Sommers, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”

Handout: Ann Berthoff, “A Curious Triangle and the Double-Entry Notebook”

2/12: In Cross-Talk: Mike Rose, “The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University”;  Attachments: Mike Rose and Glynda Hull, “This Wooden Shack Place: The Logic of an Unconventional Reading”;

                                     _________________________“Remediation as Social Context “

2/19:  Presidents’ Day

2/26:  Paper #1 due for peer review and workshopping

3/5:  Paper #1 due for assessment

         Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts, pp. 3-102

3/12:  FAC: pp. 105-166; Nancy Sommers, “Responding to Students Writing”

3/19:  Spring Break

3/26: Paper #2 (assignment sequence due for posting) 

         FAC: pp. 167-226; In Cross-Talk, Patrick Hartwell, “Grammar, Grammars and the    Teaching of Grammar”

4/2:  Read and respond to postings of Paper #2

4/9: Bakhtin, pp. 259-300; Welch, “Sideshadowing Teacher Response”

4/16:  Patriots’ Day

4/23: Bakhtin, pp. 301-355; Lu, “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle”

4/30: The Essay, Intro + pp. 1-86

5/7: Assignment #3  (short assignment writing project)

           The Essay, pp. 87-183

5/14: Paper #4 due for peer review and workshopping

5/21:  Paper #4 due for assessment: no class, unless make-up of snow day