RWS 200 Resources from 2017-2014 Resources for TAs Teaching 200 Teaching RWS200 - Sample Syllabi, Assignments, Prompts, Schedules & Teaching Materials Sample Student 200 Papers Texts  for 200 with useful thematic sequences  Lunsford et al's Everyone's An Author Lower Div. Writing Committee: Materials for RWS100 Spring 2010 Short Texts for Unit 1 Gladwell's Outliers: Links and Teaching Resources   First to Worst Teaching the Crisis - Related Texts to Use for the Strategies Paper Summer Meetings to Prepare for Next Semester - AH 4176 Friday 3.15 Daniela, Nick, Karen, Francis, Matt, Ginny, Tyler Monday 1.00 Stephanie, Kristen, Karen

 

RWS 200 Resources from 2017-2014

• RWS200 Spring 2017 We focused on Hari's "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered." We also used Roberts-Miller's work on demagoguery plus 
  a set of "target" texts for analysis, and texts on fake news and critical digital literacy.
  
  
• RWS200 Spring 2016 We examined arguments about for profit universities (Carey's "Why Do You Think They're Called 'For-Profit Colleges?'" and the video College Inc.) We also read
  Roberts-Miller's "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric" plus a set of "target" texts, and a selection of texts on the topic of online incivility and extremist discourse. 

• RWS200 Spring 2015  We read two texts on the cultural politics of the veil ("Veiled Intentions" by Maysan Haydar, and "The Muslim Woman," by Lila Abu-Lughod).
  We also read Roberts-Miller's "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric" plus a set of "target" texts, and a selection of texts on the topic of online incivility and extremist discourse. 

• In Spring 2014 we piloted a revised assignment sequence, and we read texts on the Muslim veil, the rhetoric of demagoguery, and arguments about economic inequality.
  
  
• A selection of additional materials we used are below. 

Resources for TAs Teaching 200

• Powerpoint overview of 200 (Katie Hughes) 
• Tyler Thompson has set up a wiki for 200 teachers, http://sdsuwritingrws200.pbworks.com Teachers are invited to share syllabi and teaching resources.

Teaching RWS200 - Sample Syllabi, Assignments, Prompts, Schedules & Teaching Materials

A large collection of 200 materials is available on Blackboard - please see the Instructor's Resource Guide. However, here are some recent materials by experienced and new 200 teachers.

• Sarah Curiels' 200 Syllabus 
• Lauren Lamoly's teaching materials are here: 200 syllabus, project 1 schedule and prompt, project 2 schedule and prompt, project 3 schedule and prompt. 
• Carl Fielden is one of our most experienced 200 teachers. Here are examples of his RWS200 syllabus, schedule and assignment prompts.
• Assignment sequence by Katie Hughes, another very experienced 200 teacher.
• Bridget Malaney is a new and accomplished 200 teacher. Here is her syllabus, and a collection of assignment materials - blog/journaling prompt, plus assignments 1 and 2 + peer review forms.
• Framing can be a useful concept to introduce in RWS200. This collection of texts introduces the concept of frames and includes some texts that can be analyzed in terms of framing.

Sample Student 200 Papers

• Sample assignment 1 student papers, as well as the prompt for the assignment (Towner)
• More assignment 1 sample papers plus prompt (Parker) 
• This collection of papers includes a sample A, B and C student paper. These papers are for the third 200 assignment (prompt is also given). (Fielden)

Texts  for 200 with useful thematic sequences 

• "Compared to what? One thing I know is that contexts matter." By Claude S. Fischer Contexts, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 84 This short text can be used to introduce why context matters.

•  "When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?" could be used at the start of the semester to begin discussion of the importance of context. It takes a look at how color and dress are used in the construction of gender norms. The text begins with a picture of FDR wearing a dress as an infant, and points out that for centuries young boys wore dresses. It also looks at the way pink only recently became associated with femininity. This could perhaps kick start a set of readings from the Bedford St. Martins Composing Gender reader. ($27)

• Fountainhead's V Series, which is a set of inexpensive readers on popular topics such as borders, monsters, food, money, etc.

• Bedford list of readers - see the Spotlight series for small, thematic, cheap readers (see also Writing About Writing text). 

• Rereading America: "Rereading America has remained the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and cultures, Rereading America encourages students to grapple with the real differences in perspectives that arise in our complex society. With extensive editorial apparatus that puts readings from the mainstream into conversation with readings from the margins, Rereading America provokes students to explore the foundations and contradictions of our dominant cultural myths."

• Lusford et al.'s Everyone's An Author. We have two sample chapters: chapter 13, "Analyzing Arguments" and chapter 9, "Let's Take a Closer Look: Writing Analytically." 

• The New Humanities Reader

• Contexts Site and textbook: http://contexts.org/  The site and the textbook take key issues - race, immigration, new media, literacy, etc. - and explore them from a range of angles using short texts. Produced by sociologists, but is not narrowly disciplinary and tries to find articles that are accessible and engaging. The site also includes many examples of public sphere writing, and of writing intended to enact change.

• The Presence of Others (Bedford St. Martins) textbook. "Presenting widely varying opinions on provocative topics, The Presence of Others invites every student to enter a dialogue with the readings and with accompanying commentaries from the editors, student writers, and experts in other disciplines and fields. Noted scholars Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz — whose takes on political and academic culture differ markedly — have selected a range of visual and written texts that cover issues of importance in academic and public life, from education to ethics, science and technology to American cultural myths." 

Lunsford et al's Everyone's An Author

This text will be published by Norton in August 2012. It looks useful. Advanced  We will try to get desk copies for teachers who'd like to try this text out. 

Lower Div. Writing Committee: Materials for RWS100 Spring 2010

Short Texts for Unit 1

• "California's higher-education debacle: Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream." By Jeff Bleich. LA Times. There is also a list of LA Times reader comments that respond to the op-ed by Bleich 

• Fiddling While Rome Burns. Jim Miller, English professor at San Diego City College.

Gladwell's Outliers: Links and Teaching Resources  

• The Outliers Wiki 

• Class Plan and assignment questions for Outliers from Western New England College

• Reading Guide and discussion questions http://www1.wnec.edu/firstyear/index.cfm?selection=doc.6938

• Salon review of Outliers, http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/11/17/gladwell/index.html

• Time magazine review of Outliers, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858880,00.html

• "Gladwell for Dummies." Review of Gladwell's entire writings, including Outliers, by Maureen Tkacik in The Nation.

  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/tkacik/single

First to Worst

• First to Worst, by John Merrow/Learning Matters. First to Worst explores the roots of California’s current education crisis.
• California Schools America’s Future "traces the roots of the current crisisand gives context to how it all happened. This documentary is an update of our 2004 documentary, First to Worst, about the history of California public schools. Four years later, is it possible that the largest school system in the country—educating one of every eight schoolchildren—is worse off than ever?"
• Summary of the film's arguments produced by the Stanford Report   
• A presentation that supports the arguments in First to Worst by The California School Employees Association
• American Youth Policy Forum brief thatcomments on ket aspects of the movie: http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2004/fb010804.htm

   

Teaching the Crisis - Related Texts to Use for the Strategies Paper

• Huge list of texts related to the budget crisis, education in California, and related topics. By Christian Fosen at CSU Chico.
• "California's higher-education debacle: Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream." By Jeff Bleich. LA Times. See also a list of LA Times reader comments that respond to the op-ed by Bleich

• Hamid Shirvani, Will a Culture of Entitlement Bankrupt Higher Education?  Chronicle article by Hamid Shirvani, president of CSU-Stanislaus. (CSU-Stanislaus faculty responded to Shirvani's article angrily, with 92% subsequently voting no confidence in him).

• California Faculty Association White paper criticising what it argues is the restructuring of the CSU: http://restructuringcsu.wordpress.com/ 

• Joseph Palermo Fiddling While Rome Burns Jim Miller, English professor at San Diego City College

• "California: Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs." Huffington Post, December 1, 2009.

• OPRAH segment on differences in the quality of schools in rich and poor neighborhoods. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEczvyM3Boc&feature=related

• California School Finance in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsu2L5jfIFA&feature=related

• Understanding California's School Funding Crisis  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHWqTMwZMiw&NR=1 
• Jonathan Kozol on the politics of education youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VS9XHbEaFY&feature=related

•  Scott Jaschik, "The Big Admissions Shift." Inside Higher Ed, December 1, 2009. "Here's the big story in admissions this year: The nation's largest higher education system (and its most diverse) is shifting from being de facto a non-competitive admissions university to a competitive one. Getting into the California State University System's 23 campuses (which educate 450,000 students) has just become iffy for many -- especially for those attracted to certain campuses and certain majors."

• "U.S. schools chief: State longshot for stimulus." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/22/BAR617PKQK.DTL  "Honestly, California has lost its way," Duncan told dozens of the state's mayors and education officials who packed into San Francisco City Hall on Friday morning. He was even more blunt in admonishing a lunch crowd of educators and executives at the Palace Hotel on Market Street: "Your state once had the best education system in the country. From cradle to career, you took care of your children. You made sure they were ready to enter your universities or be productive participants in the workforce. "I ask you, is California going to lead the race to the top, or are you going to lead the retreat?"

• Misc Related Links

  http://calfac.org/allpdf/frontpage/CFA_White_Paper-Restructuring%20Winter_09_10.pdf

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/13/BADC1AJG4C.DTL

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/29/IN2H1ALA7P.DTL 

• Class, Education, and Schools that beat the odds. http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/09/schools-that-beat-the-odds/

Summer Meetings to Prepare for Next Semester - AH 4176

Friday 3.15 Daniela, Nick, Karen, Francis, Matt, Ginny, Tyler

Monday 1.00 Stephanie, Kristen, Karen

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