Pedagogy
English 695

Fall 2004

 

Professor Alisse Portnoy
alisse@umich.edu

4172 Angell Hall
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Michigan
763-4279

 


Readings List

The book for the course is available at Shaman Drum Bookshop. Most of the essays and book sections we'll be reading are available online at a password-protected site. Although not all of the readings listed below will be assigned for the course, you should of course feel free to browse around and read what interests you.


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Books for the Course

Curzan, Anne and Lisa Damour.  First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Guidebook for GSIs, University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.

 

Essays/Chapters on Grading

Anson, Chris M. "Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students' Writing." The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers. 2nd ed. Ed. James C. McDonald. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. 374-93.

Bérubé, Michael. "Analyze, Don't Summarize." Chronicle of Higher Education 51.6 (1 Oct. 2004): B5.
Connors, Robert and Cheryl Glenn. The New St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. Chapter 6.
Lees, Elaine O. "Evaluating Student Writing." SAME FILE as Patricia Roberts, "Grading and Responding." Harcourt Brace Sourcebook for Teachers of Writing. Ed. Patricia Roberts. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998. 147-55.
Raign, Kathryn Rosser. Harcourt Brace Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Chapter 5.

 

Articles on University and Disciplinary Teaching (most essays submitted by members of the class; list growing daily!)

Bach, Rebecca Ann. "Teaching the Details of Race and Religious Difference in Renaissance Drama." Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. Eds. Karen Bamford and Alexander Leggatt. New York: Modern Language Assocation, 2002. 127-133.

Barnett, Timothy. "Reading 'Whiteness' in English Studies." College English 63.1 (2000): 9-37.

Bartlett, Thomas. "What Makes a Teacher Great?" Chronicle of Higher Education 12 Dec. 2003: 8.

Bauer, Dale M. "The Other 'F' Word: The Feminist in the Classroom." College English 52.4 (1990): 385-96.

Benton, Steve. "Concealed Commitment." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 1.2 (2001): 251-59.

Claxton, Mae Miller and Cooper, Camille C. "Teaching Tools: American Literature and the World Wide Web."The English Journal 90.2 (2000): 97-103.
Colbeck, Carol L. "Merging in a Seamless Blend: How Faculty Integrate Teaching and Research." Journal of Higher Education 69.6 (1998): 647-671.
Curzan, Anne. "Teaching the Politics of Standard English." Journal of English Linguistics 30.4 (2002): 339-352.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Why Read Multicultural Literature? An Arnoldian Perspective." College English 61.6 (1999): 691-701.

French, R. W. "Teaching the Bible as Literature." College English 44.8 (1982): 798-807.

Graff, Gerald. "Hidden Intellectualism." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 1.1 (2001): 21-36.

Gregory, Marshall.  "Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Teacherly Ethos."  Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 1.1 (2001): 69-89.

Herold, Niels. "Pedagogy, Hamlet, and the Manufacture of Wonder." Shakespeare Quarterly 46 (1995): 125-34.

Imani, Nikitah Okembe. "Navigating Perceptions of 'Otherness' in the Classroom: One Experience." Radical Pedagogy 6.1 (2004).
Lattuca, Lisa R., Lois J. Voigt, Kimberly Q. Fath. "Does Interdisciplinarity Promote Learning? Theoretical Support and Researchable Questions." The Review of Higher Education 28.1 (2004): 23-48.

Lightfoot, Judy. "A Short Course of Independent Study for Teachers of Modern Poetry." The English Journal 81.1 (1992): 54-59.

Linkin, Harriet Kramer. "How It Is: Teaching Women's Poetry in British Romanticism Classes." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Composition, and Culture 1.1 (2001): 91-115.

Patterson, Lee. "The Disenchanted Classroom."
Poster, Carol. “Oxidization Is a Feminist Issue: Acidity, Canonicity, and Popular Victorian Female Authors.” College English 58.3 (1996): 287-306.
Reyes, Elizabeth A.  "Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?"  Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 September 2004: B5.

Robertson, Elizabeth and Bruce K. Martin. "Culture as Catalyst and Constraint: Toward a New Perspective on Difference." College English 62.4 (2000): 492-510.

Rocklin, Edward L. "Shakespeare's Script as a Cue for Pedagogic Invention." Shakespeare Quarterly 46.2 (1995): 135-44.

Srikanth, Rajini. "Why I, a Woman of Color from India, Enjoy Teaching William Faulkner." Mississippi Quarterly 49 (1996): 441-56.

Sutherland, Margaret B. "The Situation of Women Who Teach in Universities: Contrast and Common Ground." Comparative Education 21.1 (1985): 21-28.

 

Essays/Chapters on Writing Assignments

Anson, Chris M., Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy S. Shapiro, and Carolyn H. Smith. Scenarios for Teaching Writing. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993. Writing Assignments.

Booth, Wayne. "The Rhetorical Stance." College Composition and Communication 14.3 (1963): 139-45.
Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Chapter 13: Developing Writing Assignments (pages 207-15).
MacDonald, Susan Peck. "Problem Definition in Academic Writing." College English 49.3 (1987): 315-31.

 

Chapter on Course Design

Anson, Chris M., Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy S. Shapiro, and Carolyn H. Smith. Scenarios for Teaching Writing. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993. Course Design.

 

From the U Michigan First- and Second-Year Studies' CompResources Website

Course Policies: Absences and Plagiarsm, Services for Students with Disabilities (blurb for syllabi)

For New Teachers: FSYS Guidelines for Writing a Syllabus, CRLT Guidelines for Syllabus Designe
Courses: 124: Syllabi
Courses: 125: Syllabi
Courses: 124: Writing Assignments
Courses: 125: Writing Assignments

 

 

 

Most recent update: November 26, 2004.
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