ENGH 615: Proseminar in Composition Instruction

ENGH 615-001: Composition Instruction
(Spring 2013)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T

Nguyen Engineering Building 1110

Section Information for Spring 2013

From your years of experience as writers and students of writing, you've already acquired a body of assumptions about writing practices whether articulated or not. Part of our work (and fun, I hope) in this course will be to examine those assumptions and connect them to best practices for teaching first year composition (FYC). Over the course of the semester, you'll develop a position statement on teaching first-year comp that reflects your own teaching style and preferences, your engagement with some course materials, your awareness of the learning goals for first-year composition at Mason. Your position statement is intended to provide a context and rationale for the syllabus, the lessons, and the assignments you'll create and submit in a final portfolio. While I've assigned a number of readings, our main focus will be on you the writing teacher in training. In every class, you'll have opportunities to apply the concepts we're reading about to your own course design and to your teaching, response and evaluation practices. To that end, you'll also work in pairs to develop and present a model activity designed to teach some aspect of composition you consider integral to your course(s). As part of teaching training, you'll also interview experienced FYC teachers and observe FYC classes.

ENGH 615 001 is restricted to GTAs. Enrollment is controlled. Contact the department for approval to register via Patriot Web.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Methods of teaching expository writing. Includes consideration of planning courses, practice in teaching and grading papers, and study of recent developments in teaching writing. Offered by English. May not be repeated for credit.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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