Blogging Pedagogy

It has been my task for the CWRL this last semester to review the books in the CWRL library dedicated to pedagogy. Luckily, this task coincided with the time frame wherein I had to create my first 309K proposal. I found three of the books in the library to be exceptionally helpful, and wanted to offer them up for anyone else struggling to conceptualize their course.

For those of you currently negotiating the transition from teaching in Rhetoric to English, and for those of us just beginning to think about this transition, I wanted to offer a Weighty Question (and two CWRL books to help address it):

What kinds of writing should we ask of our students in English courses, and what is the purpose of this writing?