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FALL 2009 SCHEDULE [Tuesdays 2:00-4:40 in RB 285]

Aug 25: Introductions
In class:
Cox: "What is the Best Preparation for the College Teacher of English?"
Editorial: "Pedagogical Research"
Symonds: "Needed Research in the Teaching of English"
Abbott: Review "Research Summaries in English"


Sept 1: Research Design Overview
John Cresswell: Research Design, 3rd Ed.

Sept 8: Composition Research History
Stephen North: The Making of Knowledge in Composition (all except Part V.)

Sept 15: Historical & Archival
Donahue & Moon: Local Histories (select chapters)
Smagorinsky, Ch. 10
Guest Speaker: Dr. Lenny Kaminsky, Chair of the IRB
(Meet in RB 361 at 2:00 PM)

Sept 22: Quantitative, Experimental, & Meta-Analysis
MacNealy: Ch. 3, 4, 5, & 6
Linda Flower and John R. Hayes. " A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing." College Composition and Communication 32.4 (1981): 365-387.
Nystrand, Martin. "Research on the Role of Classroom Discourse as it Affects Reading Comprehension." Research in the Teaching of English 40.4 (2006): 392-412. (Must be on campus or NCTE member to access link.)
Song & Richter. "Tutoring in the Classroom." Writing Center Journal 18.1 (1998) 50-61.

Sept 29: Interviews and Case Studies
MacNealy: Ch. 10
Ilona Leki: Undergraduates in a Second Language
(Recommended: Smagorinsky, Ch. 6)

Oct 6: Ethnographic
MacNealy: Ch. 11
Shirley Brice Heath: Ways with Words
(Recommended: Smagorinsky, Ch. 8)

Oct 13: Feminist and Action Research
MacNealy: Ch. 12
Hartman: "'Loud on the Inside,'" Research in the Teaching of English 41.1 (2006): 82-117. (Must be on campus or NCTE member to access this.)
Enoch, Jessica. "Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicano Rhetorics of Sterilization Abuse." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.3 (2005): 5-31.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Pamela Hartman @ 3:30

Oct 20: Surveys and Focus Groups
MacNealy: Ch. 8 & 9
Lenhart, Arafeh, Smith, & Macgill. Writing, Technology and Teens. PEW Internet and American Life Project, 2008.
de Jong and Schellens. "Focus groups or individual interviews? A comparison of text evaluation approaches." Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication 45.1 (1998): 77-88.

Oct 27: Digital Research
DeVoss & McKee: Digital Writing Research (select chapters)

Nov 3: Critical Research
Porter and Sullivan: Opening Spaces

Nov 10: Textual & Discourse Analysis
MacNealy, Ch. 7
Seig: "Facilitating conversations across time: Using simulations in living history training." Simulation & Gaming, 39.2 (2008) 253-265.
Weinstein, Susan. "Pregnancy, Pimps, and 'Cliched Love Things.'" Written Communication 24.1 (2007): 28-48.
Biber & Conradq. "Quantitative Corpus-based Research." TESOL Quarterly 35.2 (2001): 331-336.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Mary Theresa Seig

Nov 17: Teacher Research
Smagorinsky, Ch. 5
DiGrazia & Boucher. "Writing InQueeries: Bodies, Queer Theory, and an Experimental Writing Class." Composition Studies 33.2 (2005): 25-44.
Nickel, Jodi. "When Writing Conferences Don't Work." Language Arts 79.2 (2001): 136-47.

Nov 24: Fruesday--No Class

Dec 1: Workshops

Dec 8: Presentations

Final: Presentations