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Collaborative Practices
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Ohio State University
Description that appears in the master bulletin: Required of students wishing to teach in the Writing Workshop. 5 credit hours. Course web site from the last time Mindy Wright taught the course Mindy Wright’s current course description: “’Basic Writing’ is a contested term, one that is almost continually debated on specific campuses where basic writing programs exist (such as Ohio State), as well as in more global conversations in the field of rhetoric and composition. As such, basic writing is a field that balances between a number of tensions: standards and access, high school requirements and college expectations, “regular” and “other,” mainstream and margin. One of the goals at the center of this course will be to look at how these issues and others play out—in the classroom pedagogy of yourselves and others, as well as in larger conversations of the field, from published scholarship to electronic discussions. Another of the goals of this course is preparation for teaching in Ohio State’s Writing Workshop. Therefore, 881.02 will introduce you to theories and practices of basic writing and will ask you to reflect on your own past and current practices as teachers of writing in light of those theories. You will spend time in Writing Workshop classes, observing teachers and students (including our service-learning versions of English 110W). You will also meet with Writing Workshop teachers outside of their classes.” |