English 424:Communicating in Writing I Fall, 1995 Professor Thomas Gage Office: 172 Founders Class: Tuesday & Thursday 2:00-3:20 PM in room F 179 Room: Founders 179 Off Hrs: Wed. 2-5 or by appointment Texts: James Moffett's Active Voices II (AVII), Points of Departure (PD), Detecting Growth in Language (DGL) James Moffett and Kenneth McElhenny's Points of View (PV) Joseph Williams' Style California State Department's English Language Arts: Model Curriculum Guide K-8 Requirements: Attendance Journal Papers: due Tuesdays, the rough draft of your paper for the week. Please identify each essay with your name, the number of the draft, title of title of assignment, and date. It should be typed on a word processor, double spaced, and titled. Sometimes you will need to have duplicate copies for submitting to response groups on Tuesdays. Grading: Each paper will be graded but you will not know the grade until the end of the course. You will be able to write each paper a number of times, which may improve the grade. To receive a C or better you must hand in all work, attend all classes, and contribute to each response group. If you are absent, telephone me at 826 3161. 10% for completion of all assignments 10% for attendance and participation 80% for portfolio and final Course Rationale and Description The purposes of this course include both improving your writing and learning how to use writing to learn. The first half of the semester is devoted to readings along the continuum of the universe of discourse , moving from Notation to Recollection and Investigation to Imagination and Cogitation (as sketched out in the table of contents in PD and PV). The last half of the course is a practicum. The activities follow generally a pattern of five stages: bridging, exploration, reshaping, presentation, and reflection. Bridging is the stage during which you meet information or are engaged in a planned experience that provides the subject for future discussions and work. Exploration is the planned time that you have to think and talk about new material in response groups, sometimes after personal exploration in your journals. This stage enables you to register initial, tentative or unfocused ideas about experiences, bringing your private funding to bear on the new situation. Reshaping gives you the opportunity to direct your thoughts towards a desired outcome in your process of learning. The Presentation stage requires you to present your work to interested and critical readers, whether they are your response group, readers of your folio, or outside audiences. The final stage of Reflection asks you to consider your work and the extent to which you have reached the objectives of our study or to consider your experience in relation to the content material. The above pattern or sequence is often recycled or recursive, so that our work may appear fragmented but we will all be involved in an ongoing workshop, struggling to learn how to identify good writing and acquire the ability to write well. Much of the class time at the beginning of the course will be devoted to activities involving response groups, in which you will study your own composing processes with an emphasis on exploring ways to use writing as a method of learning. You will practice prewriting techniques (clustering, mapping, guided fantasy, free writing, improvisation), drafting, revising, editing, evaluating, and publishing. You will use a journal, in which you will record what is happening in class, what happened after class that you need to remember, and what happens when teaching and learning writing. SYLLABUS note: Please read assignments by first day of unit (i.e. before the day the assignment is listed). Topic Assigned Readings Deadlines for class August 31: Introduction & Competencies Read Model Curriculum Guide September 2: Languaging Read: pages 1-9 in DGL September 7: Languaging continued Read: pages 11-19 in DGL September 9: Recording (Taking Down or Notation) Read: "A Week in the Life" PD p. 49 & AVII & "But the One on the Right" page 17 in PV September14: Dialogue/Correspondence Read: "Coca-Cola-Grove Press Letters" PD p. 9 & "The Lady's Maid" p 29 in PV September 16: Reporting (Looking Back or Recollection- autobiography) Read: "Besieged" PD p. 118 & "The Use of Force" p 229 in PV September21: Reporting (Looking Back or Recollection-Memoir) Read: "Therese Neumann" PD p. 134 & "My Side of the Matter" p. 163 in PV September 23: Reporting (Looking Into or Investigation) Read: "The General Goes Zapping" PD p. 166 & "The A & P" p. 204 in PV September 28: Enigmas and AporiasP{} September 30: Continued: Read: "In a World of Her Own" PD p. 289 "Johnny Bear" p. 297 in PV Cogitation & related readings from PD, " "Seeing" PD pages 396 October 5: "The Serpent Power" PD p. 486 & "The Boarding House" p. 457 in PV October 7: Response Groups Peruse Autobiography & Memoir in AVII, October 12: Peruse Investigation in AVII, 79-192 Due: Recollection October 14: Response Groups October 19: Assign Cogitation: Peruse student essays, AVII Response Groups: Investation October 21: Grammar of Recollection, Investigation, Cogitation Peruse Cogitation, in AVII and reread "Serpent Power" in PD October 26: Response Groups: Cogitation Due: Investigation October 28: Constellation of Voice Assign Imagination November 2: Detecting Growth in English Response Groups: Imagination Due: Cogitation November 4: Discourse Analysis: Tape Transcription due{} Identifying and prioritizing 3-7 metacognitive moves Read DGE, pages 34-55 November 9: Paragraphs: pages 53-55. Collaborative Work: Concept of Voice: Judging Distances{} Due: Imagination November 11: Paragraphs: " Serpent Power" November 16: Workshop November 18: Sentences Last date for final draft of Recollection essay. November 23: Last date for final draft of Investigation essay. Due: Collaborative Paper{} November 30: Workshop Last date for final draft of Imagination essay. December 2: Ethnographic paper due.{} December 7: Workshop Last date for final draft of Cogitation essay. December 9: Workshop December 14: December 16: Finals: Monday, May 20: 3:00-4:50 PM