Literature and Composition:
20th Century Voices

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The College Prep. Program

Summer 1997
Frank Ceruzzi

<ceruzzif@gusun.georgetown.edu>

created for Randy Bass' "A Bigger Place to Play: Text, Knowledge and Pedagogy" EN511--Georgetown University

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Technology Lessons:

"If in fact network discussion tools and hypertext create a new rhetorical space in which the Bakhtinian vision becomes reality, how can we teach writing when we have to preserve expectations in place but still take advantage of new learning opportunities?" --Trent Batson

INTRODUCTION

WEEK ONE: USING COMMONSPACE

--Imagism and Minimalism: Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"

--Responding to Question Sets; Close Readings of Textual Passages

WEEK TWO: USING COMMONSPACE (2)

--Fathers and Sons: Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Wolff's "Powder"

--Constructing a Thesis Statement: What, How, and So What?

--Using Peer Review

WEEK THREE: USING STORYSPACE

--Reading Hypertext: Michael Joyce's "Afternoon"

--Navigating and Constructing in Storyspace: The Fairy-Tale

WEEK FOUR: USING STORYSPACE (2)

--Essay Writing in Storyspace: From the Vertical to the Horizontal

--Responding to a Critical Review

--Conclusion

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