OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.

[Rachel E. Shuttlesworth]

I taught freshman comp for the first time last semester and used a
reader called "What's Language Got to Do With It?" by Keith Walters and
Michal Brody. It has readings on a variety of linguistic topics with
several articles by scholars you'll recognize. A link to the
publisher's info on the book:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/language/contents.htm

A lot of the writing prompts are very interesting and the students seem
to love the text. Most of them even claimed that they didn't sell the
book back to the bookstore at the end of the semester! I thoroughly
enjoyed the text and will use it in the future.


Rachel
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Dr. Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
University of Alabama English Department
Box 870244 • Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244
205.348.7616
rachel.e.shuttlesworth at ua.edu


Quoting Patti Kurtz <tb5fab at GMAIL.COM>:

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> Amy and Jed and all:
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> I use a writing assignment that asks freshmen to describe their
> dialect and
> to think about how their way of speaking marks them as members of a
> community or group.  I use Wendy Bishop's On Writing, which has a
> section o=
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> language.  But a good reader is also Language Awareness by Escholtz,
> Rosa
> and Clark.
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> Patti Kurtz
> MInot State University
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> On 1/30/06, John E. Dews <jedewsua at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Just for the record, I'd like to express my interest in this area
> as well=
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> > I'd love to hear from some of you who've been integrating language
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> > (including dialectology) into freshman comp. (or other comp.
> classes). So=
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> > please either respond to the original query on the list, or include
> me in
> > those off-list e-mails!! Thanks everyone -- love being a lurker
> here!
> >     Jed Dews
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> > Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
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> > For the folks out there on English faculties who teach or have
> taught
> > freshman comp. I have a query for you:
> >
> > Having survived teaching freshman comp for the first time
> recently,
> > I'm looking forward to taking another stab at it next fall. I'd
> like
> > to have a good language awareness component to it and I'm thinking
> of
> > some good assignments on that topic/theme.
> >
> > I'm wondering if you've used and liked a particular grammar,
> > rhetoric, or reader that has covered some
> > linguistic/language-awareness stuff with your freshmen? I'm
> looking
> > at using some Deborah Tannen and Dinesh D'Souza essays, but
> haven't
> > gotten much farther than that. All the freshman comp. classes use
> the
> > Longman Writer's Companion as the grammar handbook.
> >
> > Feel free to reply off-list, if you like.
> >
> > ---Amy West
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