Calendar Description:

An examination of processes through which representational skills and competence in writing are developed. Course will include analysis of research, methods, and materials relevant to instruction in writing.

Course Objectives:

Develop further understanding of writing and representing through the following questions:

What is writing? What is representing?
Why write? - purposes and functions, problems
- who do we write for - audience?
How does “writing” connect to other semiotic forms?
What are the convergences and divergences between forms of writing and representing?
How has writing as a dominant form of communication evolved? How is it evolving into the 21st Century?
What does writing assume? What does it do to thought? To life?
What is the value/significance of writing?
How does writing happen – for you, for your students? - process
How do we research writing? What do we want to find out?
What are the social/cultural implications of “literate” societies?