Rat= ionale

One of the student outcomes for this course states that students will “work collaboratively to complete an extensive Teacher/Scholar project, a proposal for and early draft of manuscript to be considered for publication as part = of the National Council of Teachers of English TRIP Series.” This assignment allows you to fulf= ill those outcomes.

Assignment

Work collaboratively with your instructor and classmat= es to compose a proposal and the early draft of a manuscript to be submitted to t= he National Council of Teachers of English for consideration for publication as part of the Theory and Research Into Practice (T= RIP) series.

If you choose, you may “opt out” of this assignment and work on your own to design and complete an alternative Teacher-Scholar project. If y= ou choose this option, you must notify me of your decision on or before the da= te of our fourth class.

Rhetorical Situations

For the Proposal:

Topic: Our proposed book

Audience: Acquisitions Editor, National Council of Tea= chers of English

Purpose: To convince the editor that our project has m= erit and would be useful to other middle and high school teachers

Ethos: Through your reading and careful consideration = of a wide range of rhetorical theory, you will add to the ethos you already have= as secondary English/Language Arts teachers.

For the Manusc= ript:

Topic: Applying Rhetoric to the Teaching of Writing

Audience: Middle School and High School English/Langua= ge Arts teachers

Purpose: To demonstrate the ways in which rhetorical principals can be applied to the teaching of writing, in both theory and practice.

Ethos: Through your reading and careful consideration = of a wide range of rhetorical theory, you will add to the ethos you already have= as secondary English/Language Arts teachers.

Format

For the Propos= al:

There is a fairly well-defined format for book proposa= ls available on the NCTE website. We will follow it as closely as the nature of our project allows.

For the Manusc= ript:

We will spend some class time exploring the formats of previously published books in this series.= Then we will write and work together to determine the most logical format for our text.

Submission Deadline<= /h2>
All work toward the Teacher/Scholar Projects is due on= the last day of class, 5/5/07.

Evaluation

Your Teacher/Scholar Project constitutes 30% of your g= rade for the course. My evaluation= will take into account the following factors:

described above (or amended at a later date)?