Rhetoric And Composition

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What is PROCESS PEDAGOGY?

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Emphasizes the writing process.:Free writing, journal writing, peer response.
Proponents:
+James Marshall
+Donald Murray
+Janet Emig
+Peter Elbow
Critics:
-Lester Faigley
- Lisa Delpit
No longer "revolutionary." Not really new...Aristotle and Cicero.

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Mina Shaughnessey
Basic Writing
"Diving In"

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Calls on teachers to "remdeiate" themselves.
Error is central to instructional method. Represents writer's attempt systematize language
Error is logical and intentional as writer gropes for conventional forms.

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David Bartholomae "Inventing the University"

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Help students to shift from grammatical to rhetorical concerns.
Successful writers must see themselves withitn a privileged discourse.
Writing is imitation and parody__> not invention and discovery.

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Expressive Pedagogy

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-Free Writing, Journaling, reflective writing.
Finding ones "inner voice."
Developed in opposition to CTR standard form and stress on correct grammar
+ Murray + Emig, + Elbow

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Critical Pedagogy --Cultural Critical Pedagogy

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Commitment to education for citizenship.

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Kenneth Burke on Rhetoric

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Rhetoric is the "use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that b nature use symbols.
We use words every day to shape attitudes and encourage people.
Teaching is a rhetorical art= using symbolic means to induce cooperation in our students.

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Figures: Tropes and Schemes

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Tropes: Figures of thought or sense ( metaphor, metonymy, synedcoche)
Schemes: figures of words and atrrangement (amplifying, repeating an idea, alliteration, assonance).
More then merely ornamental, figures reflected strategies of invention and arrangement.

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Lester Faigley: Competing theories of Process."

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-writing strategy has always recognized process
Identifies 4 competing theories of process: 1. Expressive; 2. Cognitive; 3. Social; 4. Marxist.

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Baron, Dennis “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology”

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Contention: The computer is simply the latest step in a long line of writing technologies.
As students rely more on computer research, it becomes more incumbent to verify reliability, authenticity of source information.

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Taylor, Todd
10 Commandments for Computers and Composition

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Presents a philosophical compass…
Keep people first/id and build from program principles/start simple/invest in hands-on instructor training/revise strategies for instructing students/consult with others/expect the crash/consider access.

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Anson: Distant Voices

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“The key to sustaining our pedagogical advances in the teaching of writing, even as we are pulled by the magnetic forces of innovation, will be to take control of these technologies, using them in effective ways and not, in the urge for ever-cheaper instruction, substituting them for those contexts and methods that we hold to be essential.”

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Kress, Gunther “English at the Crossroads; Rethinking Curricula of Cmcn in the Context of the Turn to the Visual”

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Need a new theory founded on innovation, constant transformation and change brought about by individuals.
-the use of visual and written text.
-need to treat individuals as agentive in relation not

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Krause, Steven, Blogging
“When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale about Blogs, Email lists, Discussion and Interaction.”

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Good guidance from the instructor…responding to several writing prompts.

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Faigley, Lester “Beyond Imagination- The Internet and Global Digital Literacy

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-Keep focus on learning and not on technology
--How to create the best possible environment for learning
Learning is not "self-taught" nor solitary activity. Learn best with other people. Lists 5 "virtues" of technology and collaborative learning:
students trained in collab. higher achievement/self-esteem; Allows more student/instructor interaction; use of tech across geographic bounaries are more motivated; exemplary computer-using teacers: more enjoyment/support.; teachers are more effective with training and suuport.

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Cooper, Marilyn “Postmodern Possibilities in Electronic Conversaions”

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writing online sets up a different rhetorical situation and encourages different writing strategies than writing for print technology does.”

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Alexander, Jonathan
“Gaming: Student Literacies, Composition and the College Classroom.

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Such a study may not only enliven our teaching approach, but transform our understanding of literacy develops.

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Purdy, James P. Calling off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism “Teaching Comp” 3rd ed.

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we [writing teachers] need to consider the role that writing technologies play in the writing process…and consider how “we as teachers…can pedagogically address these technologies…how to integrate source materials with thoughts of one’s own.