After my teaching demo -- time permitting -- I'd like to offer some thoughts about why I think/hope this lesson "works." Here are some slices of survey data from my students over the years.
Here's a link to my CV if you're interested!
Feel free to check out the syllabi of the courses that I've designed. I've laid them out in chronological order (although there's some overlap), beginning with one of the current writing seminars that I've been teaching at UPenn this year. Please know that my UPenn syllabus, however, is part of a shared first-year writing curriculum, so I've only been able to make slight modifications to it.
"Reading Like a Writer, Teaching Like a Reader: Guiding Students Towards 'Good Reading' in First-Year Composition" -- that's the title of my dissertation! I identified fourteen different "reading behaviors" -- what readers think, feel, or do before, during, or after the act of reading -- then examined FYC TAs' perception of their role within their pedagogy. I thought that I'd make my diss available in the chance that somebody might want to skim through it(!).
Here's a link to my CV if you're interested!
Feel free to check out the syllabi of the courses that I've designed. I've laid them out in chronological order (although there's some overlap), beginning with one of the current writing seminars that I've been teaching at UPenn this year. Please know that my UPenn syllabus, however, is part of a shared first-year writing curriculum, so I've only been able to make slight modifications to it.
- WRIT 083 - Political Tone (University of Pennsylvania)
- ENG 101-108, Linked - English Composition I and Academic Reading Across the Disciplines (Community College of Philadelphia)
- WRIT 2 - Academic Writing (University of California Santa Barbara)
- COMM 131 - Foundations of Public Speaking (Santa Barbara City College)
- WRIT 220 - Ethnography and Ethnographic Writing, II (Antioch University Santa Barbara)
- WRIT 219 - Ethnography and Ethnographic Writing, I (Antioch University Santa Barbara)
- WRIT 339 - Personal Journal (Antioch University Santa Barbara)
- ENG 201 - Advanced Composition (Brooks Institute of Art and Photography)
- WRIT 310 - Academic Writing (Antioch University Santa Barbara)
- ENG 2596 - Writing for Business and Industry (Temple University)
- ENG 802 - Analytical Reading and Writing (Temple University)
"Reading Like a Writer, Teaching Like a Reader: Guiding Students Towards 'Good Reading' in First-Year Composition" -- that's the title of my dissertation! I identified fourteen different "reading behaviors" -- what readers think, feel, or do before, during, or after the act of reading -- then examined FYC TAs' perception of their role within their pedagogy. I thought that I'd make my diss available in the chance that somebody might want to skim through it(!).
