Author in context course
Proposal form
Please save
the following proposal form to a disk and fill in your responses. Download and print your responses, and
submit as your proposal. Since the
course must be writing-intensive, please explain in the appropriate spaces
below the kinds of informal and formal writing you will use, the numbers of
pages of formal prose, the kinds of revisions you will require, and your
techniques for providing substantive comments for revision before students
submit the final drafts that you will grade.
Course:
Engl. 460 (WI):
Author in Context
Author:
Instructor:
- List
titles of required primary texts by the author.
- List
titles of required historical, biographical, social, or cultural texts you
will read as contexts within which to study the author.
- List
literary critical and theoretical texts you will read to suggest the range
of ways in which this author has been read.
- Which
assignments for the course require formal prose? Please indicate the required number of pages for each
assignment.
- Which
of the formal writing assignments require multiple drafts?
- How
will you provide substantive comments for revision of drafts on
assignments requiring multiple drafts? (For example, you might use
individual conferences, written comments, e-mail communications, etc.)
- How
will you build into the content of the course instruction in writing the
formal prose pieces?
- What
kinds of informal writing will you use in the course? (For example, you
might use reading journals or logs, focus questions or discussion topics,
short in-class responses to lectures or readings, invention and pre-writing
for formal papers.)
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AUTHOR IN CONTEXT SAMPLE COURSE PROPOSAL