Assignment Documents for English 3177
Bad Ideas About Writing presentations
Readings for ENGL 3177: Prof. Sophia Bamert
Melzer et al., “So Your Instructor Is Using Contract Grading” (open access): https://writingcommons.org/article/so-your-instructor-is-using-contract-grading/
Bad Ideas About Writing (open access textbook): https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf
Sommers, Nancy. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” College Composition and Communication 31, no. 4 (1980): 378–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/356588. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Perl, Sondra. “Understanding Composing.” College Composition and Communication 31, no. 4 (1980): 363–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/356586. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Rose, Mike. “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block.” College Composition and Communication 31, no. 4 (1980): 389–401. https://doi.org/10.2307/356589. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Williams, Joseph M. “The Phenomenology of Error.” College Composition and Communication 32, no. 2 (1981): 152–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/356689. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Ben Rafoth, “Why Visit Your Campus Writing Center?” (Open access from Writing Spaces textbook): https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/rafoth–why-visit-your-campus-writing-center.pdf/
Dan Melzer, “Understanding Discourse Communities” (Open access from Writing Spaces textbook): https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces3/melzer.pdf
Devitt, Amy J., Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff. “Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities.” College English 65, no. 5 (2003): 541–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/3594252. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.) Read the following sections: Amy Devitt, “Where Communities Collide: Exploring a Legal Genre” and Anis Bawarshi, “Using Genre to Access Community: The Personal Medical History Genre as ‘Form of Life’”.
Cristina Sánchez-Martín, “Beyond Language Difference in Writing: Investigating Complex and Equitable Language Practices” (Open access from Writing Spaces textbook): https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces4/sanchez-martin.pdf
Canagarajah, A. Suresh. “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued.” College Composition and Communication 57, no. 4 (2006): 586–619. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20456910. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Vershawn Ashanti Young, “Should Writers Use They Own English?” (BC Library) Iowa journal of cultural studies, 2010, Vol.12 (1), p.110-117. (Login with your BC Library credentials to view.)
Sara P. Alvarez, Amy J. Wan, and Eunjeong Lee, “Workin’ Languages: Who We Are Matters in Our Writing” (Open access from Writing Spaces textbook): https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces4/alvarez.pdf
Melanie Gagich, “An Introduction to and Strategies for Multimodal Composing” (open access from Writing Spaces): https://writingspaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1gagich-introduction-strategies-multimodal-composing-1.pdf
Ryan P Shepherd, “What Reddit Has to Teach Us About Discourse Communities” (open access from Kairos journal)
Bethany Monea, “Screen Reading: A Gallery of (Re)Imagined Interfaces” (open access from Kairos journal)
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