Contents:

• This week's news from Bronwyn
• Link to composition news weekly archives
• New Bonnie Books

January 6, 2008

Hello and welcome back,

I hope that everyone had a restful and good break. There are a number of items to start the year, but they are important and appreciate your attention to them. I also want to remind everyone that these emails and other program news and announcements are posted on CompPost (http://louisville.edu/english/composition/comppost.html)

 

1. Syllabus Copies: Please turn in a copy of your syllabus to Linda Baldwin by Friday of this week. Remember that we have changed the syllabus checklist. Be sure to attach a syllabus checklist to the front of the syllabus. You can find copies of the checklist in the Composition Office or online at http://louisville.edu/english/composition/checklist.html

 

2. Wait List and Over-enrollment Policy: Please do not tell students they can over-enroll in your courses (unless they are graduating seniors with a letter from their adviser). The wait list and over-enrollment policy for the program can be found at http://louisville.edu/english/composition/over-enrollment-policy.html

 

3. Early Morning Instructors: If you are teaching an 8:00 am course Linda will be distributing a list of other instructors who also teach at that time who you can contact if you have an emergency and need to miss class so that person can post a notice. The Composition Program office and the English Department office don't open until 8:00 and if you need to cancel a class word might not get to your students until 8:30 or so.

 

4. Fall Grade Sheets: If you have not already done so, please give Linda a copy of your fall grade sheets as soon as possible. We are still missing some from fall courses. Thanks.

 

5. Instructor Information Sheets: Information sheets will go out later this week. Please fill these out and return them to Linda as soon as possible. With more than fifty people teaching in the program it is a great help to us to have accurate information about your office hours, contact information, and so on. Thank you.

 

6. Celebration of Student Writing: A reminder that we will hold the first Celebration of Student Writing on April 8. There will be more details coming during the spring, but if you have questions or ideas about how to get your students involved, contact Matt Dowell (mldowe01@louisville.edu). More information about the event is available at: http://louisville.edu/english/composition/teaching-community.html

 

7. Good News: There is much good news among the people teaching in this program. You can dind out about the accomplishments of your colleagues at CompPost (http://louisville.edu/english/composition/comppost.html.) Please send announcements of your good news to Tabetha Adkins (tabetha.adkins@louisville.edu).

 

I hope the semester starts well for everyone. Please don't hesitate to stop by my office if there are problems, concerns, or if you just want to chat.

 

Best,

Bronwyn

See archives of composition news weekly.

 

New Bonnie Books, Fall 2008

Computers in the Composition Classroom:  A Critical Sourcebook, Michelle Sidler, Riuchard Morris, and Elizabeth Overman Smith

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, N. Katherine Hayles

 Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, N. Katherine Hayles

 The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich

 A History of News, Mitchell Stephens

 Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, Janet H. Murray

Narratives of Social Justice Teaching: How English Teachers Negotiate Theory and Practice Between Preservice and Inservice Spaces (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education),  S. J. Miller (Author), Laura Bolf Beliveau (Author), Todd Destigter (Author), David Kirkland (Author), Peggy Rice (Author)

Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, Joe Lambert

Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition, Anne Wysocki 

Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition), Jonathan Alexander

Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies, Jonathan Alexander

Defining Visual Rhetorics, Charles A. Hill (Editor), Marguerite Helmers (Editor)

Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections (Paperback), James Paul Gee (Foreword), Gail E. Hawisher (Editor), Cynthia L. Selfe (Editor)

Digital Storytelling, Second Edition: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment (Paperback), Carolyn Handler Miller (Author)

Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Brueggemann