raymond craig
associate professor
department of english

english 85055 :: academic/nonacademic literacy
seminar schedule
 
Week/Date Topics Reading Reports & Supplements Writing*
1
Sept. 1
Introduction; Seminar Agenda; Research Tasks
    IC: Discourse of Crisis; Definitions; Seminar Task
2
Sept. 8
The Social Turn I Heath, Part I Selections Cushman, Part 5 Reflection; Critical Summary
3
Sept. 15
The Social Turn II Heath, Part II Selections Cushman, Part 5 Reflection; Taxonomy Memo
4
Sept. 22
The Social Turn III Cook-Gumperz: essays 1-3 Street fr Literacy in Theory & Practice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Reflection; Critical Summary

5
Sept. 29

The Social Turn IV Cook-Gumperz: Essays 4, 7, 10 Street fr Literacy in Theory & Practice 6, 7, 8; fr Cross-Cultural, essay 6, 9, 10, 11, 12. Reflection; Taxonomy Memo
6
Oct. 6
Academic Writing Russell, Part I (skim), Part II From our Zotero bibliography: choose one from Archer, Ivanic & Satchwell, Melles, Blommaert, or Lillis. Reflection; Critical Summary
7
Oct. 13
Academic Writing Russell, Part III Selections on WAC, WIC, Expertise Reflection; Taxonomy Memo
8
Oct. 20
Workplace Literacy Cushman, Part II: chaps skim 6, 7; focus on 9,11 Cushman, Part VII: all chapters elegible for Crit. Sum. Reflection; Critical Summary; Research Proposal
9
Oct. 27
Workplace Literacy Hull; Jolliffe; others Cushman, Part 7: all chaps Reflection; Taxonomy Memo
0
Nov. 3
New Literacies Lankshear & Knobel, Parts 1 & 2 All read: NLG HER A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies.Then CS on Archer 2006; Banda 2003; Eisenlauer & Hoffman 2008; Mills 2006; or Nelson & Hull 2005. All in Zotero. Reflection; Critical Summary; Theory Memo
11
Nov. 10
New Literacies Lankshear & Knobel, Part III Kress, et al., Selections Reflection; Taxonomy Memo; Theory Memo

12
Nov. 17

Multimodal Literacy Rouet, et al, chaps 1,3,4,14 Kress, Cope&Kalantzis, Gee: all 2009 and optional Reflection; Critique; Theory Memo
13
Nov. 24
Computer Literacy Selber Selfe, Hawisher, Wysocki, et al.; Cushman Selections (Baron, Charney): all optional Reflection; Critique; Theory Memo
14
Dec. 1
Media Literacy Tyner no CS Reflection; Critique; Theory Memo
15
Dec. 8
Research Projects Presentations    
F
Dec 15: 5.45-8.00
Research Projects Presentations   Research Report Due

*Critical Summaries & Taxonomy Memos are posted on Tuesday prior to assigned "Report" date. Seminar participants are encouraged to read the Supplemental/Report items.

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