Hi Natasha and Graham. I'm sorry I didn't get around to responding to
your first call for ideas. I taught a Teaching Writing Course at
Western that was at the 200 level (i.e. for senior students). I
included much of what you have here (apart from the "teaching in the
workplace" which I think is very good.). I also included a unit on
teaching ESL students in the classroom and the different problems/ needs
that they present to a writing instructor. Many of the students I
taught either went on to teach for a year or two in Korea, Japan or
somewhere in South America, or found themselves dealing with ESL
students in their high school or university classrooms, so they found
this a useful introduction to this kind of specialized teaching. In
this context we talked about plagiarism and ownership of ideas; critical
thinking; separation of ideas; grammar issues (i.e. writing with an
accent vs. clarity of message) and macrological problems of
organization and style. Just a thought! Theresa.
Natasha Artemeva wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> We would like to thank everybody who responded to Graham's request
> for ideas for our new 4th-year "Teaching Writing" course.
>
> Below we have included our course description below:
> ************
> Carleton University
> School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS)
>
> LALS 4906: Teaching Writing in School and the Workplace
> Winter 2010 – Tuesday & Thursday 11:35 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
> Instructors: Graham Smart & Natasha Artemeva
>
> Course description
> This course will introduce students to current approaches to the
> teaching of writing. We will examine theoretically-informed methods
> and strategies for teaching writing in school—at the elementary,
> secondary, college, and university levels—as well as in workplace
> settings. In addition to reading and discussing published work on
> writing pedagogy, students will have an opportunity to apply the
> methods and strategies discussed to curriculum design—that is, to
> integrating the teaching of writing into different subject areas and
> disciplines. The writing assignments for the course will include short
> weekly responses to the readings and individual and small-group
> learning projects. The course will be of interest to future and
> current teachers, university writing tutors, workplace writing coaches
> and editors, and professional writing consultants.
> Course topics
> • Brief historical background on the teaching of writing in school and
> workplace settings.
> • Brief introduction to relevant socio-cultural theories of language
> and learning.
> • Teaching a process approach to writing: strategies for planning and
> drafting; evaluating
> and revising; editing.
> • Responding to student writing.
> • Assessing student writing.
> • Reading and writing.
> • Using the Internet and other digital resources for teaching writing.
> • Integrating the teaching of writing into different subject areas and
> disciplines.
> • Writing in the Disciplines (WID); academic writing centres.
> • Teaching writing in workplace settings: in-house coaching and
> editing; consulting.
>
> Prerequisite: The course requires third-year standing.
>
> Graham Smart – [log in to unmask]
> (613) 520-2600 (ext. 2000)
> Natasha Artemeva – [log in to unmask]
> (613) 520-2600 (ext. 7452)
> *************
> Natasha & Graham
>
>
>>> Graham Smart wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We’re currently designing a^ 4th-year course here at Carleton on
>>>>
> the
>
>>>> teaching of writing. The title of the course is “Teaching
>>>>
> Writing in
>
>>>> School and the Workplace.” Here’s our working calendar
>>>>
> description:
>
>>>> *Course description*
>>>>
>>>> Approaches to teaching writing in elementary and secondary school,
>>>>
> in
>
>>>> university, and in the
>>>>
>>>> workplace. Discussion of writing pedagogies as viewed
>>>> from socio-cultural perspectives on
>>>>
>>>> language and learning. The course will be of interest to future
>>>>
> and
>
>>>> current teachers, workplace
>>>>
>>>> trainers, editors, and writing consultants.
>>>>
>>>> *Outcomes*
>>>>
>>>> · Participants will have a broad understanding of current
>>>> approaches to teaching writing in school (elementary, secondary,
>>>> university) and workplace.
>>>>
>>>> · Participants will have had experience applying one of
>>>>
> these
>
>>>> approaches in at least one school or workplace setting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With this in mind, we have a couple of questions to ask you:
>>>>
>>>> 1) We would like to pitch the course to students in various
>>>> departments here at Carleton as a good item to have on a résumé
>>>>
> for
>
>>>> someone planning to apply for teachers’ college. But of course we
>>>>
> only
>
>>>> want to make this claim if it’s reasonable. Do you think this
>>>>
> would be
>
>>>> a valid claim for us to make?
>>>>
>>>> 2) Do you know any ‘must-have’ readings that you would
>>>>
> recommend?
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much,
>>>>
>>>> Graham and Natasha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------
>>>> Graham Smart
>>>> Associate Professor
>>>> Carleton University
>>>> School of Linguistics &
>>>> Language Studies
>>>> 215 Paterson Hall
>>>> 1125 Colonel By Drive
>>>> Ottawa, Ontario
>>>> Canada K1S 5B6
>>>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Natasha Artemeva, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> School of Linguistics and
> Language Studies;Carleton University
> 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
> K1S 5B6;
> Tel. +1 (613) 520-2600 ext.7452
>
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