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Graduate Courses - ENG 693: Teaching College Composition

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and appointment as a teaching assistant in the department of English.

Recent offerings:

Fall 2010, Burnes

A seminar in the theory and practice of teaching ENG 101, College Composition.  Seminar participants actively review their understanding of the conventions and contexts of academic writing, practice and critique ways of responding to student writing and of planning sequences of writing assignments, and begin to read in the discipline of composition studies.  They pay particular attention to current scholarship on processes of writing, on reading and writing as functions of academic discourse communities, and on the institutional setting of writing instruction.  Throughout the semester, they keep teaching journals, plan assignments sequences with theoretical justifications and present these to their peers, compile annotated bibliographies on topics of interest, and write position papers on selected aspects of their teaching.

Fall 2009, Burnes

Fall 2008, Burnes

A seminar in the theory and practice of teaching ENG 101, College Composition. Seminar participants actively review their understanding of the conventions and contexts of academic writing, practice and critique ways of responding to student writing and of planning sequences of writing assignments, and begin to read in the discipline of composition studies. They pay particular attention to current scholarship on processes of writing, on reading and writing as functions of academic discourse communities, and on the institutional setting of writing instruction. Throughout the semester, they keep teaching journals, plan assignments sequences with theoretical justifications and present these to their peers, compile annotated bibliographies on topics of interest, and write position papers on selected aspects of their teaching.


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