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.
