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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENG 502 - Theories of Teaching Composition




This course examines issues surrounding contemporary theories and practices of teaching expository writing, considering the pedagogical, political, linguistic, and psychological assumptions which underlie them. Recent research as it addresses such topics as the acquisition of language skills, strategies for the evaluation of and response to writing, writing across the curriculum to promote discovery and learning, and links between reading and writing, speaking and writing, and critical thinking and writing serves as a course focus. Through considering such issues, students will develop criteria for choosing among the many approaches and materials for teaching writing which compete for attention.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or the permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3