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ERIC Number: EJ1317585
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 28
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-096X
EISSN: EISSN-1939-9006
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Monstrous Composition: Reanimating the Lecture in First-Year Writing Instruction
Marika Seigel; Josh Chase; William De Herder; Silke Feltz; Karla Saari Kitalong; Abraham Romney; Kimberly Tweedle
College Composition and Communication, v71 n4 p643-671 Jun 2020
This article reports on one university's experiment in resurrecting and reanimating the composition lecture, a one-hundred-plus student section dubbed "MonsterComp," including the process, outcomes, and lessons learned. Although this restructuring of the first-year composition course was partially motivated by administrative pressures, the main motivation behind this experiment was to enhance teacher training and support while still retaining the workshop environment and low student-to-instructor ratio of traditional composition sections. The course involves multiple stakeholders, including the WPA and graduate student program coordinators, graduate student instructors, and course-based coaches from our university's writing center. Assessment of student work, observations of the course, and surveys administered to stakeholders indicate that the course was successful in terms of teacher training and preserving student learning outcomes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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