Category Archives: Teaching Composition

Macrorie’s “Third Way”

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Michael

I’ve read about a quarter of Ken Macrorie’s Uptaught, and I like some of the sentiments he expresses. For example, he gives an example of how a textbook might start: If you are a student qho desires assistance in order … Continue reading →

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On having a first-year composition program

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Michael

In Situating Composition, Lisa refers to a few sources I might want to check out sometime regarding first-year composition programs, and whether we should have them or not: Sharon Crowley, Composition in the University: “The traditional function of the required … Continue reading →

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classroom as contact zone

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Michael

Today I was just thinking again about Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone”, and how the classroom is a contact zone. I was particularly thinking about this as how it is a contact zone of cultures (“academic” and … Continue reading →

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post-process pedagogy

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Michael

I just read: Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. “Post-Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philsoophical Exercise.” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Victor Vellanueva. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. 97-125. In this essay, Breuch articulates that the teaching of the writing process … Continue reading →

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woah – a take on the five-paragraph essay

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Michael

So, while trying to compile lists of blogs to refer to, and finding all sorts of awesome blogs I hadn’t read before, I keep getting sidetracked by these new ideas and takes on things. The most recent is campus.blog’s new … Continue reading →

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