At Texas A&M-Commerce, first-year writers are asked to write about writing. Increasingly this “writing-about-writing” pedagogy is incorporating video, text, and images found in the NCoW archives. In English 101, writers explore their own histories as writers. In English 102, these first-year students are asked to examine literacy as it manifests itself among members of a particular community. |
Contributor (and Curriculum Designer): Shannon Carter, Director of First-Year Writing and Co-Director of Converging Literacies Center
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Course Overview, including assignments and readings:
http://sites.google.com/site/e101tamuc/home/course-overview-1
Course Texts: National Conversation on Writing and Lindquist and Seitz’s The Elements of Literacy (Longman, 2009) |
Contributor (and Curriculum Designer): Shannon Carter
- Common Course Syllabus [PDF download]
- Course Texts: Sustein and Chiseri-Strater, Fieldworking (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006) and Carter’s Literacies in Context (Fountainhead P, 2008).
- Calendar [Opens in new browser window]
- Theoretical Framework [Opens in new browser window]
- Additional Resources [Opens in new browser window]
Student Example:
- Eric Pleasant, “Literacy Sponsors and Learning: An Ethnography of Punk Literacy in Mid-1980s Waco.” (“Feature: Young Scholars in First Year Writing”). Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric. Vol. 5 (Spring 2008)
- <link to issue at http://www.bk.psu.edu/Academics/Degrees/30436.htm>
- <Access: http://www.bk.psu.edu/Documents/Academics/LITERACY.pdf>
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“Worth Celebrating”: A Video about Celebration of Student Writing
http://www.ncow.org/browse/video/carter_worthcelebrating.html
This video commemorates the Celebration of Student Writing (CSW) at Texas A&M University-Commerce and describes the curriculum from which these student projects emerged.
The CSW celebrates the original research of first-year college students with a focus on culminating projects for the first-year composition sequence. It serves as an argument that student research at any level should be celebrated alongside the promotion of the multiple literacies found throughout the process.
This video contributes to the national conversation on writing by sharing the original research of first-year composition students studying literacy as it manifests itself in a variety of contexts.
Suggests that everyone is a writer and literacy is everywhere. |
JP Sloop, PhD Student, Department of Literature and Languages, shares "The Found Project, through video, blog, and a copy of his assignment for FY writers:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqB7n4VMauE
Blog including his assignment: http://tamucfound.blogspot.com/
Whose Story? Writers in the English building, happening by a bulletin board that asks for them to share their writing; at the end of the experiment, after the semester was over, someone posted a completed and graded essay (creative writing) with a note “To anyone who wants it.” Pay it forward! |
Drawing inspiration from Pete Vandenberg and Darsie Bowden’s video Who is a Writer? and Foundmagazine.com, J.P. created the “Found” project.
The project is based on the premise that we are all writers and that one of the inhibitors for people seeing themselves as writers is the lack of space in which to present their writing. Using a portion of the bulletin boards on each floor of the Hall of Languages, Sloop provided a space for writers to display their work.
He kept a photo journal documenting the success of the project and used the photos to create a video and a blog. He turned the footage into a short video looking at who and what is being written about when a space is provided. He has also developed an assignment that might involve students in future incarnations of this fabulously interesting “found” project. |
