The Bedford/St.Martin’s guides are pretty good. I have been thinking about their sourcebooks, too. I can get those for you folks for free.

Possible texts:

–Mayers, Tim. (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies. Pittsburgh: U of P Press, 2005.
– Cheryl Glenn, Melissa Goldthwaite, Robert Connors. The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 5th Ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. (SMG)
– Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, Kurt Schick, eds. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford, 2001. (CP)
– White, Edward M., Donald Daiker, and Lynn Bloom, eds. Composition in the New Millenium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future, 2003.
– Corbett, Edward P. The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, 4th Edition. Oxford UP, 1999.

Excerpts from:
–Ray, Ruth E. The Practice of Theory: Teacher Research in Composition. Urbana:NCTE, 1993. (Unit 1: Challenging the Theory-Practice Relationship.)
– Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Princeton: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990. (Ch.1, “Scholarship over Time,” and 2, “Enlarging the Perspective”)
– Morton, Donald, and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. Texts for Change: Theory/Pedagogy/Politics. Urbana and Chicago: U of C Press, 1991. (Ch. 1, “Theory Pedagogy Politics: The Crisis of “The Subject” in the Humanities.”)
– Herrington, Anne, and Charles Moran, eds. Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. New York: MLA, 1992. (Ch. 2, Russell, David, “American Origins of the Writing across the Curriculum Movement,” 22-42)
– Henry, Jim. Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing. Carbondale: SIU Press, 2000. (Introduction, “Changing Modes of Composition,” Ch.1, “Researching the Discursive Self”, Ch. 2,“What is a Writer?” and Ch. 8,“Intervening in Cultural Production and Reproduction.”)
– Dias, Freedman, Medway and Paré, Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 1999. (Ch. 1, “Researching Writing at School and at Work,” Ch.2, “Situating Writing,” Ch. 3, “The Social Motive of University Writing.”)

Katie

The following link has a very good article on point with what we will be addressing: http://writinginstructor.com/cseeconnections
text mentioned is Tremmel & Broz-Teaching Writing Teachers

Back to work-Katie

@Nan, yep, good idea to add that; something about using the weblog for discussion as well.

We might also say for texts that we have three picked and will isolate more as we go forward, pending individual student needs.

Feel free to copy that to the framework page and edit it. Let me know if you can’t edit…

Resources to be used:

Outcomes to be achieved: Seminar paper; extensive research experience in particular field of interest related to writing building toward Engl 690: Thesis.
Expected date of completion: proposal by June 10, draft by July 10, final by August 10.
Number of hours sought: 3
Faculty sponsor: Prof. Bradley Dilger
Why pursuing particular topic: Additional research into professional areas of interests related toward culminating Thesis paper.
Why study cannot be accomplished with current course offerings: No writing specific courses offered through WIU Summer ‘08.

Feel free to edit and add–working copy.