First Year Composition as Intro to Writing Studies – RM 117

Doug Downs, Utah Valley State College
This presentation describes who he has enacted the pedagogy at Utah Valley State College that he and Elizabeth Wardle (of the University of Dayton) wrote about here:

Downs, Douglas, and Elizabeth Wardle. "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning 'First-Year Composition' as 'Introduction to Writing Studies.'" CCC 58.4 (2007): 552-584. http://inventio.us/ccc/archives/2007/06/douglas_downs_a.html

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Nick's Notes on Doug's Session

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Here are articles from the composition field that are eminently readable for any FY writing student:

Doug uses:
Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing,"College Composition and Communication, Vol. 33, No. 2. (May, 1982), pp. 148-156. Link to full-text from JSTOR: http://tinyurl.com/34kt5s

What I've used:
Eldred, Janet Carey. "The Technology of Voice." CCC 48.3 (1997): 334-347. For an abstract and link to JSTOR copy, http://inventio.us/ccc/archives/1997/10/20_janet_carey.html

Britton, James. "Language and Experience," Language and Learning: The Importance of Speech in Children's Development. Boynton/Cook, 1993. Amazon reader has most of this chapter online in its "Look Inside the Book Feature". Go to the URL below and then click the "Excerpt" link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0867093358/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-5658752-0097718#reader-link

For other articles you might use, consult these resources:

The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing Online by Nedra Reynolds, Bruce Herzberg, and Patricia Bizzell at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/

The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing Online by Linda Adler-Kassner and Greg R. Glau for The Conference on Basic Writing at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/basicbib/content.asp

CompPile by Richard Haswell and Glenn Blalock is an online bibliographic database for composition at http://comppile.tamucc.edu/

CompFAQs is a CompPile project which builds bibliographies around specific issues in the field. You can find a link on the page above, but it's really worth bookmarking on its own at http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/CompFAQs/Home