Literacy Narratives | Writing Class 2.0. For your very first major assignment of ENG1000C, you will be crafting a literacy narrative. Today, you read one and heard about a few others (“The Library Card,” “On Being 17,″ “Coming to an Awareness of Language,” and “Shitty First Drafts”) that you can feel free to use as models. What is a literacy narrative? Black Columbus gives a pretty good definition: A literacy narrative is a first-hand narrative about reading or composing (or teaching reading and composing) in any form or context.Literacy narratives can be short or long, two minutes or twenty-five. For our purposes, you should be prepared to write a print-based document (.doc, .docx, .rtf). Think of the assignment as storytelling challenge rather than an essay. When you are finished, you might consider publishing your literacy narrative here: Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives.
Draft One Requirements– due Monday, February 6 by 12 p.m. To get credit for draft # 1, you must: To get credit for draft # 2, you must: Like this: D i a p s a l m a t a: Remixing Freshman Comp. I'm teaching Writing 20 this semester, Duke's freshman composition course and the only course required of all Duke undergrads. Enrollment for each course is capped firmly at 12, so dozens of sections are taught each semester by a mix of grad students (across many disciplines), post-docs (also across many disciplines) and Thompson Writing Program faculty. Each course is (kinda, sorta) a "content" course -- everything from food science and pirates to captivity narratives is on the docket this semester -- but of course writing must be a significant portion of each section's curriculum. Busting the content/criticism divide. No traditional lit-crit compositions; no five-page thesis-driven essays on a "major theme" in Hamlet, no close readings of Keats.
This genre does a few things well (that clause was a struggle for me to write, and I'm not sure I believe it), but none of those things (whatever they may be) serve students planning on graduating in 2015. Wikipedia in the Classroom. At Trent University in Ontario, Canada, I teach The History of Psychology, a fourth year undergraduate course. I view this course as a capstone for students’ undergraduate education — one in which they can use their research and communication skills to contextualize what they have learned during their undergraduate degree. Admittedly, this is an ambitious goal. Unfortunately, it’s been my experience that even the tastiest scandals in our history (e.g., Watson’s affair with Rosalie Rayner) have not been scintillating enough to elicit from most students the Herculean effort required to fulfill the course’s promise.
What to do? The answer was glaringly simple. It wasn’t the material that was failing to engage the students — they were suffering from essay fatigue and needed a change. Initially, students were assigned to add or edit biographical articles on important historical figures in psychology. Most of the students’ fears were easily addressed by showing them how to write for Wikipedia. 479 Autobiography Assignment. Autoethnography. Allen Webb Course Syllabus Winter 1998 Autoethnography and the Teaching of Writing Teaching writing can empower students to trust and value their own words and voice, to inquire more deeply into knowledge and ideas, to be creative, to better understand themselves and the world around them, and to speak out clearly and cogently to others on topics that matter.
Facilitating the power of writing will be the focus of this section of English 4790 Teaching Writing in the Secondary Schools. Class will be held in a new, wireless, laptop classroom in Brown Hall specifically designed to prepare future teachers for the "classroom of the future. " More culturally self-conscious than "autobiography," the concept of "autoethnography" emphasizes understanding individual identity within cultural, social, and historical communities and frameworks. Throughout 479 there will be wide latitude for discussion and the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives.
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