TYCA West Conference

You’re invited to attend the TYCA West conference at the Redwood campus on Oct. 9 and 10. You may attend both days or just one day. This is an excellent professional develoment opportunity. Registrations can be returned to Christine in the dept. office or to Brittany Stephenson.
TYCA 2009 conference registration

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 [...]

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. [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]