Resources

Freeman_A Parallel Universe_Zimbabwe_2014
Mamdani_Lessons from Zimbabwe_2009-1
These are the article Erika sent that demonstrate to students an author’s misapplication of another author

Writing Papers Rampolla 2010
Another text from Erika on writing in a discipline

Currie–Staying Out of Trouble-Plagiarism
Can faculty comment contribute to student plagiarism?

Rethinking the Bad Academic Writing of Judith Butler
An article by Cathy Birkenstein on the “impenetrable” academic prose of Judith Butler

Elbow-Voice in Writing Again- Embracing Contraries
Peter Elbow’s 2007 overview of the issue, and controversy, of “voice” in student writing

Shaughnessy-Syntax
Chapter 3 from Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations, on students’ speaking and writing voices

Bartholomae – Inventing the University
A classic article in Composition Studies that engages the issue of students writing in, “into,” and across different disciplines. On 18 of the 30 pp. of text and notes, Bartholomae refers to writing as “speaking,” evincing “voice,” or extant as “sound.”

Four Philosophies of Composition
From Trudy Smoke, another classic article in the field that addresses the issue

Students’ Right to Their Own Language
1974 NCTE Resolution on the issue of “standard English,” framed by the “distinction between speech and writing”

They Say/I Say Excerpt
Chapter 4, “Yes/No/Okay, But,” from Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say/I Say, a currently popular text for teaching academic writing.

The Distinction between Participant and Spectator Role Language in Research and Practice
1984 article by James Britton, a “pioneer” in Composition Studies, on the difference between “transactional” writing (mostly what we teach) and “expressive” writing.

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