Hello and welcome. From May 28 to June 13, 2018, I will be facilitating a workshop on the teaching of writing at Lanzhou University in Gansu, China. To view the course plan and list of readings, click here. To download the readings, click on the links below–>
Day 1 (May 28)
- Dwight Atkinson & Vai Ramanathan — “Cultures of Writing”
- Patrick Sullivan, Yufeng Zhang & Fenglan Zheng – “College Writing in China & America”
Day 2 (May 30)
- Donald Murray – “Teach Writing as Process Not Product”
- Maxine Hairston – “The Winds of Change”
- David Bartholomae – “Inventing the University”
Day 3 (June 4)
- Mike Rose – “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language”
- Linda Flower – “Writer-based Prose”
- Mina Shaughnessy – Errors & Expectations (excerpt)
Day 4 (June 6)
- Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein – They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (excerpt)
Day 5 (June 11)
- Nancy Sommers – “Responding to Student Writing” (1982)
- Vivian Zamel – “Responding to Student Writing” (1985)
- Riki Thompson & Meredith Lee – “Talking With Students Through Screencasting”
Day 6 (June 13)
