English 1010 Retention study

Hello,

See the final report on this study here or in the “Assessment” tab.

Ron

English 1010 Retention Study

Hello,

As many of you know Brittany and I are on the verge of completing this study. Here is a link to the Mythbuster handout for students Brittany discussed at the last forum. It reflects the ethnographic data we collected and analyzed.

english1010mythbusters

I will post a link to the report in the next day or two.

Ron

Spring Forum

Hope to see everyone this Saturday the 10th at 9am; really hoping our meeting will shake out the christmas cobwebs and rev me up for the new semester. I need some revving.

Ron

Fall 2008 Curriculum

I’ve created links to fall schedules for both “From Inquiry…” and Faigley’s “Writing Guide.” Note that there are more options for the Faigley book than for Inquiry. This is only because more people on the committee are using Faigley–that is adjuncts are free to use either book.

A note on the Faigley schedules. Option 1 is adapted from our online courses which use Faigley–this approach, as with Stephanie’s and Allison’s uses our old curriculum assignments (strong response, synthesis, final argument and genre translation). Option 2 is a portfolio approach but is pared down from what I worked on during my portfolio pilot last year. That is there is less student freedom compared to Lisa’s 2010 approach but still an opportunity for student’s to choose to keep revising and be graded on certain pieces. I’m still developing this approach so will be updating assignments descriptions etc as we go along–see syllabus option 2 for more details.

I’ve also left up Stephanie’s and Allison’s schedules. Feel free to use any of the schedules or to mix and match parts from several. If you do use these though you will need to create your own fall schedule or contact Stephanie or Allison.

Note that there is no Allyn and Bacon fall schedule. If you are still using this textbook, I assume you have been using it for some time and therefore have developed your own approach, schedule. Just a reminder: you will need to switch to the Faigley or the “From Inquiry…” textbook by spring 2009 (i.e. next semester).

Hope to see you all at the Fall Forum tomorrow, Friday the 15th.

Ron

Last adjunct forum and Student Conference

On Thursday the 17th we met to discuss the new textbooks in English 1010 and 2010. Lynn Kilpatrick presented information on Academic Inquiry and we had a discussion about Faigley’s Writing a guide for college and beyond. If you have not told Christine which book you are using for the fall, please contact her soon. You do not have to switch from the Allyn and Bacon custom pub till the spring but many are choosing to do so before.

The 2nd annual Conference on Writing and Social Justice took place on Saturday April the 19th. See an outline of the program below. We will hold this conference again next year and would love to have adjuncts participate. It’s a unique opportunity for ungraduate students (especially at a community college) to present a paper or other creative work. Look for upcoming announcements about next year’s conference and please support the conference by announcing it to students and helping them develop presentations.

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9:30-10 Conference Registration

10-11: Panel: Contemporary Languages of Racism
Participants: Mildred Sparks, Joe Gallegos, LaShawn Williams, & Randy Eggert

11-12 Session One
Brittany Black—Interracial Marriage
Jeremy Robert “Furb” Furbish—“The Little Black Boy” v. “Indigo Spirit”: The Color Commentary
of a Cape Cod Red Neck
Kim Nordmeyer—Language and Racism: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

12-12:30: break/snacks

12:30-1:30 Session Two
James Clark—Winters of Hate
Dorenda Huffstickler—A Southern Woman’s Response to The “N” Word
Melissa Gillett—Language Barriers

1:30-2:30: Session Three: Academia and the 1st Amendment
Participants: Besty Auwerda, Adriana Stidham, & Jamie Wheeler

Jabari Asim

Here is the .pdf of ch12 from Asim’s book. It was also sent out through email.

Chapter 12

And here is the flyer for the student conference on Language and Racism:

Student Conference

Ron

Spring 2008: Upcoming Events

January 5th: 9-2 Adjunct Forum at South Campus, W 111 A & B–see schedule below

Writing and Social Justice Conference: Jabari Asim, author of The N Word: Who can say it, who shouldn’t and why
Events and Activities:

• First Week of February: Assignment #8–A rhetorical analysis by all English 1010 students of a section of Asim’s book
• March 14th: Proposals due for papers and projects concerning race (more details forthcoming)

• April 5th: City Library Dewey Lecture: Jabari Asim

• Saturday April 19th: Student conference on Writing and Social Justice

• CWC Dewey Workshop: sometime in April

• May 2-9: Grand Theater Production of Big River

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Adjunct Forum Schedule

Saturday January 5^th from 9 am - 2 p m for everyone

9am-3pm for new adjuncts who have not taught for us before; there will be a special meeting from 2-3pm )

Discuss Marilyn Cooper’s “The Ecology of Writing” (see the attachment) 9-9:45

Self-Reflective 9:45-11:15

Jason Pickavance “Integrating design into 2010 writing” 11:15-11:45

Lunch 11:45-12:15

Brittany Stephenson 12:15-12:45 “Spring 2008 English 1010 Student Retention Study”

2010 Portfolio 12:45-1:30

2010 Research Writing 1:30-2

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Course Leaders meet with new adjuncts 2-3 pm

Lester Faigley will be visiting on November 16th (All events will be in AD 201)

• 10:30 -12 discussion of his textbook, Writing: A guide for college and beyond (this will be tailored to those piloting the textbook, but anyone who is interested is welcome—I have extra copies of his textbook) 

•  1:30-2:30 Presentation (both part and full time faculty)

• See his article on Material literacy and design here: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~faigley/work/material_literacy/material.html

 

Wednesday Forums at 2pm: Recent films about composition

Here’s a note from Clint Gardner on an upcoming viewing and discussion of recent films about composition. These films interview students and writing scholars about writing process and theory. Feel free to come to the entire viewing and discussion or just stop by for 10 or 15 minutes.

Ron 

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As I was looking at my bookshelf above my desk this morning, I noted the films “Take 20:  Teaching Writing” and “Writing Across Borders.”  I then recalled that there are two other films directly related to composition that I know of “Remember Composition” which came bundled with the latest issue of JAC and “Across the Drafts” from Harvard.  Rather than conducting our traditional article reading discussion groups, I want to try something different:  Wednesday Afternoon Big Money Movie in the Student Writing Center.  Ok there will be no big money involved at all, but I still want to show the following movies:

October 10:  “Remembering Composition”  75 minutes.
October 17:  “Take 20:  Teaching Writing” 65 minutes.
October 24:  “Writing Across Borders,” “Across the Drafts,” and “Shaped by Writing.”

We will start showing the movie promptly at 2:00 pm.  After the showing of the movie, I would like to conduct a discussion. 

We will show the movies with the projector in AD 214.

I’m sure we can obtain some popcorn. 

Fall 2007 schedule

I’ve posted the new schedule (see the link on the right) but I will also put a link below. Note that it is very similar to the summer schedule except I have added a few opportunities to discuss and practice self-reflection. This is in response to the low scoring of self-reflective writing in our recent assessment. Secondly, note the discussion of self-reflection below and the handout from our spring forum and, of course, the handout under “Second Sequence of Assignments” on the right. Also, I’ve added another student example of self-reflective writing here (I’ve made a link below too). The student examples are NOT meant to say this is THE way to do the assignment but I believe both have effective elements of self-reflection which allign with our stated course outcomes. If you have other ideas to enhance self-reflective/ meta-cognitive work, I’d be interested. Feel free to post comments to this post and/or email me.

Fall 2007 Schedule

Student example of self-reflective writing