Read/Review (everyone should Blog *
read/view/review for the upcoming class
meeting)
Week 1
Week 2 Read Bean, Chapters 1-4 (EI); View
“Literacies for Further Learning” and case
studies associated with this project (see
“Resources for Instructors” [blog,
“Resources”], especially assignment
details for WA2); review materials for
NCTE’s National Day on Writing/National
Gallery on Writing (blog)
Week 3 EL, chapter 2-3; Harris, “Talking in the
Middle” (on reserve); Yancey, “Teaching
Writing in the 21st Century” (blog), “An
Empirical Look at a Writing Program’s
Commenting Practices” (blog);
Week 4 “I Hate Writing” (blog); “What They Bring
with them To College” (blog); Bruffee (on
*post to your blog by noon the Sunday before relevant class discussion
**post to the “Teaching Writing” blog at www.shannoncarter.wordpress.com by noon on the Sunday following relevant class discussions; respond to classmates’
blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review
Week in Review ** Assignment
1. “The Idea of a Writing Center” Week 2 in Review (due
2. EL, Chapter 1 Sunday, 9/13, by noon)
3. EL, Chapter 2
4. Downs and Wardle
5. “Who is a Writer? What Writers Tell Us”
Posts due Sunday 9/13, by noon Week 3 in Review (due
Sunday, 9/20, by noon)
1. EI, chap. 2
2. EI, chap. 3
3. EI, chap. 4
4. Literacies for Further Learning/
assignment details for WA2; create
assignment sheet (draft) for discussion that
students might find useful in creating WA2
5. Generate draft of WA1 (see E101
sequence) and blog about experience
6. NDoW/NGoW—What is the National Day
on Writing? The National Gallery on
Writing? What are people doing for NDoW?
What can you/we do? What are some of the
galleries looking like?
Posts due Sunday, 9/20, by noon Week 4 in Review (due
Sunday, 9/27, by noon)
1. EL, chapter 2
2. EL, chapter 3
3. Harris, “Talking in the Middle”
4. Yancey
5. “An Empirical Look at a WP’s
Commenting Practices”
6. Generate draft of WA2 (see E101 sequence
and info at course blog under “Resources”)
and blog about experience
Posts due Sunday 9/27, by noon Week 5 in Review (due
Sunday, 10/6, by noon)
 reserve); Bean, chapter 5; Commerce
Week on Writing (blog)
Week 5 Elements of Literacy, chapter 5 (EL);
Engaging Ideas, chapters 6-9 (EI)
Week 6 NCoW materials, especially via the NCoW
“Communication Kit”; Newsweek article
“Why Johnny Can’t Write” (1975)
*post to your blog by noon the Sunday before relevant class discussion
**post to the “Teaching Writing” blog at www.shannoncarter.wordpress.com by noon on the Sunday following relevant class discussions; respond to classmates’
blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review
1. EI, chapter 5
2. Generate draft of WA3 (see E101 sequence
and info at course blog under “Resources”)
and blog about experience
3. “I Hate Writing” (blog); focus on how you
might use this in the classroom, especially as
it serves English 101 students preparing for
WA3
4. “What They Bring with Them to College
(blog), see #3 above
5. Bruffee (on reserve)
6. Commerce Week on Writing (blog)—
What are folks planning? Speak directly with
people who may be involved. Your review of
the proposed “happenings” should be posted
to the “Commerce Week on Writing” blog as
well, following our conversation during class
on 10/6
Posts due Sunday, 10/4, by noon Week 6 in Review (due
Sunday, 10/11, by noon)
1. EL, chapter 5
2. EI, chapter 6
3. EI, chapter 7
4. EI, chapter 8
5. EI, chapter 9
6. Generate draft of WA1, WA2, WA3 (see
E101 sequence and info at course blog under
“Resources”) and blog about experience;
generate a revised “Assignment Sheet” for
the WA you attempted
Posts due Sunday, 10/11, by noon Week 7 in Review (due
Sunday, 10/18, by noon)
1. NCoW introductory materials, especially
via the NCoW Communication Kit
2. NCoW’s campaign “Who Said Johnny
Can’t Write?”
 3. NCoW’s “Spotlight On” feature
4. NCoW’s “Contribute” function, with close
attention to what Creative Commons is and
means
5. NCoW archives
6. Generate draft of WA4 (see E101 sequence
and info at course blog under “Resources”)
and blog about experience; generate an
appropriate assignment sheet to help students
work toward their own WA4

Week 7 Instead of posts for Week 8 . . . Week 8 in Review

(due 10/25)
1. Generate promotional materials for at least
one Commerce Week on Writing event (post
to Commerce Week on Writing blog by
Friday, 10/16

2. Interview at least one person during the

Commerce Week on Writing and blog about
experience/findings: who did you interview?
Where? What did you learn? Did you record
it? Did the interviewee consent to sharing
his/her interview with the NCoW? (if you are
unable to record this interview, you should
transcribe it). Don’t forget those important
consent forms (see blog)

3. Review one event associated with the

Commerce Week on Writing. What did you
attend? What did you see/hear/learn? What
can we take from this experience? What did
you get from this experience? (due Sunday
10/25, by noon)

An additional chance to generate writing

assignment from first-year student’s

*post to your blog by noon the Sunday before relevant class discussion
**post to the “Teaching Writing” blog at www.shannoncarter.wordpress.com by noon on the Sunday following relevant class discussions; respond to classmates’
blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review
 perspective: see “Interview Project” at course
blog, as assigned to English 102-Honors
students). Only one more chance left after
this, so take this opportunity if you can.

Week 8 Commerce Week on Writing! See above Commerce Week on

Writing (due Sunday,
During class, “NCoW Theater” 11/1, by noon)

Focus on the Commerce

Week on Writing reviews
and
interviews/experiences;
post synopsis to the
Teaching Writing blog
AND the Commerce
Week on Writing blog;
we’ll share these
campus-wide as a way to
keep the conversation
going
Week 9 Read Engaging Ideas, chapters 10, 13, and Posts due Sunday, 11/1, by noon Week 10 in Review (due Interview with instructor
14; check out course materials for English Sunday, 11/8, by noon) due 11/3
102 as we approached it from Spring 2007- 1. EI, chapter 10
present (blog); see course materials for 2. EI, chapter 13
English 102-Honors (blog); take a look at 3. EI, chapter 14
what we submitted for NCoW from the 4. Review course plans and materials for
Commerce Week on Writing activities English 102 (see blog)
5. Review submissions for NCoW from
Commerce Week on Writing, including
interviews collected by your classmates and
reviews generated by your classmates
6. Review course materials and student blogs
for English 102-Honors (Fall 2009)
Week 10 Read The Way Literacy Lives, chapters 1- Posts due Sunday, 11/8, by noon Week 11 in Review (due Annotations (10) due
2; On Ethnography, chapters 1-2; Cooper’s Sunday, 11/15, by noon) 11/10
“Really Useful Knowledge” (on reserve); 1. WLL, chapter 1

*post to your blog by noon the Sunday before relevant class discussion
**post to the “Teaching Writing” blog at www.shannoncarter.wordpress.com by noon on the Sunday following relevant class discussions; respond to classmates’
blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review
 course materials for our Basic Writing
Program (blog)
Week 11 Read The Way Literacy Lives, chapter 3;
On Ethnography, chapter 3-5; Delpit
(reserve); Murphy (reserve); materials for
English 101’s final project “Writing
Matters” (blog)
Week 12 Read The Way Literacy Lives, chapters 4-
5; review English 102-H Research
Portfolios and student blogs; scan all
previous “Weeks in Review” and generate
notes on recurring themes and teaching
tips
Week Read On Ethnography, chapter 6; “The
13/ Converging Literacies Center” in Kairos
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blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review
2. WLL, chapter 2
3. OE, chapter 1
4 OE, chapter 2
5. Cooper
6. BW course materials
Posts due Sunday 11/15, by noon Week 12 in Review (due
Sunday, 11/22, by noon)
1. WLL , chapter 3
2. OE, chapters 3-4
3. OE, chapter 5
4. Delpit
5. “Writing Matters” (pull together three
essays generated by your fellow English 675
students, write an introduction, and develop a
prototype for this publication to be shared
online and then during class 11/17 [rough
draft for peer review])
6. Murphy
Posts due Sunday, 11/22, by noon Week 13 in Review (due
Sunday, 11/29, by noon)
1. WLL, chapter 4
2. WLL, chapter 5
3. review English 102-H Research Portfolios
and student blogs
4. Close review of previous Weeks in
Review, noting recurring themes, questions,
teaching tips, and other ideas. In other words,
at midterm, what can we say about the
teaching of writing?
5. same as above
6. “Writing Matters”—generate final draft,
develop NCoW submission form with
relevant summary, tags, and other details;
post all to share with class before submitting
to NCoW
Posts due Sunday, 11/29, by noon Week 14 in Review (due
Sunday, 12/6, by noon)
Thanksg (blog); “The Writing Center Paradox” in
iving CCC; (blog); “Living Inside the Bible
(Belt)” in College English (blog); “Hope,
Repair, and the Complexities of
Reciprocity” in Community Literacy
Journal (blog);
1. OE, chapter 6
2. Kairos (on CLiC)
3. “The Writing Center Paradox” (CCC)
4. “Living Inside the Bible (Belt)” (College
English)
5. “HOPE, Repair, . . . “ (Community
Litearcy Journal)
6. Pull together favorite resources from
colleges and sources like NCTE and
CompFAQs; list about 25, with relevant
annotations (attributed if generated by
others). Post to the “Teaching Writing” blog
as well as your own.

Week 14 Teaching Philosophy Posts due Sunday, 12/6, by noon Week 15 in Review (due Teaching Portfolio due
Teaching Portfolio Sunday, 12/13, by noon) 12/8
Blog about plans for Teaching Philosophy;
post draft by deadline
Week 15 Teaching Portfolio due
Finals

*post to your blog by noon the Sunday before relevant class discussion
**post to the “Teaching Writing” blog at www.shannoncarter.wordpress.com by noon on the Sunday following relevant class discussions; respond to classmates’
blogs before class the previous Tuesday, following their noon Sunday blog postings and before your Sunday “Week in Review